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Covering 52 countries and economic areas, the Encyclopedia, examines education in the world's major nations as well as in smaller countries that have seen particularly significant educational developments. Each essay provides basic statistical data and covers the development of a nation's universities and their role in society, student and faculty issues, university-government relations, and other contemporary concerns. Separate chapters focus on important regions as well as educational trends and issues common to regional neighbors. Fifteen thematic chapters deal with such subjects as academic freedom, university reform, educational costs, graduate studies, student political activism, scientific research in the third world, labor markets, private institutions, and the role of women. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Altbach has a knack for enlisting leading comparative and higher-education scholars in his many edited collections. He has again assembled a strong group of international scholars who offer encapsulated looks at postsecondary training in 52 major countries and regions, and explicate 15 cross-cutural topics, including foreign education (W.K. Cummings), graduate education (G. Rhoades), private higher education (R. Geiger), and academic freedom (E. Shils). The work partially fills the gap in higher-education area studies since publication of The International Encyclopedia of Higher Education, ed. by Asa S. Knowles (CH, Jul'78), which covered 198 countries and territories. The geographic essays blend description and analysis into short overviews (10 to 20 pages), several of which suffer from space constraints. Chapters examine historical developments and current trends, structure and governance, students and faculty, and higher education's relationships with political systems and labor markets. Particularly outstanding chapters include those on the US (M.L. Gade), Malaysia (J.S. Singh), Chile (J.R. Farrell), and France (A. Bienayme). Since research for the articles was completed in mid-1989, recent information concerning countries transiting toward democracy, as well as a few regressing toward authoritarianism, is not included. Good bibliography and excellent footnote use of primary documents. An important addition to academic libraries. -C. B. Thurston, University of Texas at San Antonio