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The Open World and Closed Societies

Essays on Higher Education Policies "in Transition"

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  • © 2004

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  1. Voldemar Tomusk
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Part of the book series: Issues in Higher Education (IHIGHER)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. From Lenin to Digital Rapture: The Everlasting Transition in East European Higher Education and Beyond

    • Voldemar Tomusk
    Pages 1-18

  3. Higher Education Reform in Romania: Knocking on Heaven’s Door

    • Voldemar Tomusk
    Pages 19-33

  4. Thirteen Years of Higher Education Reforms in Estonia: Perfect Chaos

    • Voldemar Tomusk
    Pages 35-51

  5. Russian Higher Education After Communism: The Candy Man’s Gone

    • Voldemar Tomusk
    Pages 53-73

  6. Market as Metaphor in East European Higher Education

    • Voldemar Tomusk
    Pages 75-87

  7. Reaching Beyond Geometry—The Privateness of Private Universities

    • Voldemar Tomusk
    Pages 89-104

  8. Exploring the Limits of Entrepreneurial Response

    • Voldemar Tomusk
    Pages 105-118

  9. When East Meets West: Decontextualizing the Quality of East European Higher Education

    • Voldemar Tomusk
    Pages 119-129

  10. Reproduction of the “State Nobility” in Eastern Europe: Past Patterns and New Practices

    • Voldemar Tomusk
    Pages 131-143

  11. The Communication Community and the Scam of the Knowledge Society

    • Voldemar Tomusk
    Pages 145-166

  12. Transnational Capitalist Class and World Bank “Aid” for Higher Education

    • Voldemar Tomusk
    Pages 167-181

  13. Toward a Model of Higher Education Reform in Central and East Europe

    • Voldemar Tomusk
    Pages 183-198

  14. Epilogue: The Unholy Trinity of Prince, Prophet, and Philosopher

    • Voldemar Tomusk
    Pages 199-201

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 203-241
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About this book

This book is about higher education reforms in the post-socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, seen through the eyes of somebody who has spent the last decade analyzing these reforms as well as negotiating and supervising reform projects in countries from Serbia and Montenegro to Mongolia. Analyzing the reforms in a broader political, economic and social context and relating these to global higher education developments, the book addresses the complexity of the processes and contradictions among the demands on higher education systems, which in many instances impede positive changes.

About the author

VOLDEMAR TOMUSK is Deputy Director of the Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute in Budapest, Hungary.

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