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UNINA9910791438203321 |
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Autore |
Mamdani Mahmood <1946-> |
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Scholars in the Marketplace. The Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005 : The Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005 / / Mahmood Mamdani |
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Dakar, Senegal : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , 2007 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2013 |
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©2007 |
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1-282-90155-9 |
9786612901553 |
2-86978-419-8 |
2-86978-375-2 |
2-86978-292-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (314 p.) |
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Privatization in education - Uganda |
Education, Higher - Economic aspects - Uganda |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-289) and index. |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter One - The reform Process: The First Phase; Chapter Two - Winners and Losers; Chapter Three - Commercialisation; Chapter Four - Decentralisation; Conclusion - Higher Education and the Public University in an Independent Africa; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover |
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Scholars in the Marketplace is a case study of market-based reforms at Uganda's Makerere University. With the World Bank heralding neoliberal reform at Makerere as the model for the transformation of higher education in Africa, it has implications for the whole continent. At the global level, the Makerere case exemplifies the fate of public universities in a market-oriented and capital friendly era. The Makerere reform began in the 1990's and was based on the premise that higher education is more of a private than a public good. Instead of pitting the |
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public against the private, and the state... |
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UNINA9910958580603321 |
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Globalization in English studies / / edited by Maria Georgieva and Allan James |
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Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, 2010 |
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1-282-58843-5 |
9786612588433 |
1-4438-2049-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GeorgievaMaria |
JamesAllan (Allan R.) |
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Globalization |
English language - Social aspects - Foreign countries |
English language - Social aspects - English-speaking countries |
Intercultural communication |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL ENGLISH ON LANGUAGE POLICY FOR THE MEDIA; IDENTITY AND FOOD IN THE GLOBALIZING WORLD; PART TWO; E-MAILS AND FICTION; FROM CONFINED SPACE TO GLOBAL WORLDS AND COMPLEX TECHNIQUES; LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY IN THE NARRATION OF SUHAYL SAADI'S GLASGOW FICTION; PART THREE; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF COMMUNICATION IN INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES; GLOBE TALK; THE EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION ON ITALIAN SPECIALISED LANGUAGE; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION IN MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENTS; PART FOUR; INTERACTION, INTERLANGUAGE, INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH |
ENGLISH STUDIES IN NON-ANGLOPHONE CONTEXTSCONTRIBUTORS; INDEX |
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Globalization, the concept used to account for the multitude of linkages, interconnections and interdependences that currently |
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transcend territorial and sociocultural boundaries in the world, has been in the centre of continual controversy over its meaning, scope, intensity and social significance for post-modern societies. However, whether considered from the narrow angle of current socio-economic developments, or from the broad perspective of evolutionary processes straddling all spheres of... |
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