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The chapter focuses on current higher education reforms globally. It examines the nexus between ideology, culture, and higher education reforms. Globalisation and the competitive market forces have generated a massive growth in the knowledge industries that are having profound effects on society and higher educational institutions. One of the effects of globalisation is that the higher education sector is compelled to embrace the corporate ethos of the efficiency, performance, and profit-driven managerialism. As such, new entrepreneurial universities in the global culture succumb to the economic gains offered by the neo-liberal ideology, and university governance defined fundamentally by economic factors. Using comparative education research findings, The chapter analyses and evaluates the ascent of a neo-liberal and neoconservative higher education policy, global university rankings, competition-driven reforms, internationalization, quality assurance, entrepreneurial and competitive ways of competition for international students among universities, both locally and globally.

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Zajda, J., Rust, V. (2021). Current Research in Higher Education Reforms. In: Globalisation and Comparative Education. Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2054-8_10

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