Global Higher Education in Times of Upheaval: On Common Goods, Geopolitics and Decolonisation (Bloomsbury Higher Education Research)

In this open access book, leading scholar Simon Marginson discusses the major trends, events, issues and dilemmas that have shaped and are still shaping global higher education. Higher education and research have grown rapidly, becoming more international and embroiled in the politics and economics of an increasingly conflicted world.The global research university has spread from the Euro-American West to the global East and South, becoming key to emerging multipolar and decolonial power.In the Anglosphere, however, the market model is failing.In highly unequal societies, education cannot universalise opportunity and employability.Neoliberal governments have defunded and emptied out the work of universities for the common good - and populist-conservatism is filling the vacuum with a backlash against cross-border students, against crucial East-West collaboration in research, and in the United States, where global research universities began, against university autonomy, climate science