1132 Studies in Comparative Education
The
field of Comparative Education is built on the foundation that comparisons of
education policies and practices across nations can help think critically about
our system and other systems. This course not only explores higher education
goals, policies and practices, but focuses on higher education investment
around the globe through a comparative lens. There are two levels of higher
education investment—individual and national. Related topics of individual
higher education investment include college enrollment, choice, persistence,
and graduation, as well as return to higher education investment. In addition,
national higher education investment will be discussed, and topics include financing
higher education (investment in academic research as well as teaching and
learning) and the external social benefits generated from higher education.