This book looks at the people who selected scholars, from the Lord Chamberlain as a break from censoring plays in the 1960s to the daughter of a pig farmer in the 2000s, and at the lives of the scholars and former scholars themselves. By asking who was selected, how, and why, it examines the policies of countries offering scholarships and those receiving them, looks at their role within the universities of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, discusses their experience as they studied abroad, and assesses their long-term impact. Three themes particularly stand out. First, scholarship policy has been shaped by the interplay of national politics and education. Second, the world’s four million cross-border university students are themselves now big business and the stuff of international politics; the Commonwealth record offers a microcosm of their experience. Third, the lives and achievements of former scholars answer the policy question: was investing in scholarships a good way of spending public money?
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781443880633
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-4438-8063-3
- Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.10.2015
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2. Auflage 2015
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Seiten: 265
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt