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Higher Education in the BRICS: Key Lessons and the Road Ahead

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The assumptions, by the volume editors and most contributors, at the beginning of this research adventure were that, despite the ongoing policy discourse surrounding the rise of the BRICS, were characterized by fundamental differences as regards the dynamics within the higher education sector and the links with societal actors on the one hand and macro level trends (such as demography and rising urbanization) on the other. The rich empirical accounts provided in this volume—around the four main themes surveyed—suggest that our assumptions were largely correct. Considerable differences do exist amongst the BRICS.

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  1. Department of Political Science and Management, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Agder, Gimlemoen 25H, 4630, Kristiansand, Norway

    Rómulo Pinheiro & Pundy Pillay

  2. IETS (Institute for Labor and Society), Praia do Flamengo, 100 cobertura-Flamengo, 22210-100, Rio de, Janeiro, Brazil

    Simon Schwartzman

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    Simon Schwartzman

  2. Faculty of Education, University of Oslo, Kristiansand S., Norway

    Rómulo Pinheiro

  3. University of Witwatersrand Grad. School of Public & Development, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Pundy Pillay

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Pinheiro, R., Schwartzman, S., Pillay, P. (2015). Higher Education in the BRICS: Key Lessons and the Road Ahead. In: Schwartzman, S., Pinheiro, R., Pillay, P. (eds) Higher Education in the BRICS Countries. Higher Education Dynamics, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9570-8_24

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