This is a report of a first-stage project sponsored by UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning to map the extent, range, and impact of transnational, private, and for-profit tertiary education provision in a sample of ...

Realizing the critical need to dramatically improve access to higher education in Papua New Guinea, and the impossibility for traditional modes of education to adequately address this situation given major economic and ...

The COL RIM is for the use of management teams in post-secondary institutions. It specifically targets higher education decision makers at the institutional level. Any post-secondary education and training institution in ...

Faced with burgeoning demand for higher education, various African countries are planning to establish open universities and are seeking COL’s help. Although ODL is now deployed by many conventional institutions, the staff ...

Open and distance learning has expanded dramatically in recent years across the world, across the spectrum of subject areas, and across educational levels. This book takes a detailed look at the state of the art of open ...

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), adopted by the World Trade Organization in 1995, clearly identifies education as a service to be liberalised and regulated by trade rules. While some see GATS as an ...

the Bulgarian higher education system has developed rapidly, in contrast to other levels in the education sector. Considerable changes took place in Bulgarian higher education in the 1990’s, both in terms of increasing ...

Since independence, the education policy of successive governments has focused on improving and extending primary education and providing opportunities for Education for All (EFA). Primary education was made free and ...

Jamaica's education system is based on the British model, although there is an increasing amount of US influence on the education sector. Education in Jamaica is becoming increasingly centralised, mainly due to policies ...

Since independence, education has traditionally had a high political priority in Malaysia. The Malaysian government has been highly interventionist as it has sought to utilise education as a means of achieving economic ...