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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Coping with Uncertainties

Chapter 1 The Clash Between Academic Traditions, Markets and GATS

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Triggering the debate

1.3. Higher education as an academic and/or as a service world. The place of “boundary objects”

1.4. Searching for “boundary objects”

1.5. Higher education between market and “public good”

1.6. Academic mobility and certain other transformations in the academic space

1.7. Correspondences between GATS modes of services trade and instances of academic mobility

1.8. Academic mobility and trade in higher education

1.9. A conclusion

Chapter 2 Demography and Higher Education. Risks and Prospective Approaches

2.1. The demographic “tyranny of numbers” and some complementarities

2.2. Numbers and flows of students

2.3. Some complementarities

2.4. Consequences of an approach

2.5. Contextualizing demographic prospects

2.6. Globalization: academic mobility and demographic migration reconsidered

2.7. Higher education institutions at a crossroads

Part II The New World of Higher Education

Chapter 3 University and Development: A Vicious or a Virtuous Circle?

3.1. Identifying connections

3.2. Market culture and academic culture

3.3. A change of paradigm: the “education industry” is emerging

3.4. The corporate university and the “education industry”

3.5. Is education industry a reality or a metaphor?

3.6. Peaks in a maze of numbers

Chapter 4 Academic Transformation: Continuities and Discontinuities

4.1. Identifying factors of change

4.2. Identifying a new typology of universities

4.3. The traditional university

4.4. The market university

4.5. The transitory or reflexive university

4.6. Facing dilemmas: the need to choose

Index