1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791438203321

Autore

Mamdani Mahmood <1946->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dakar, Senegal : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , 2007

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2013

©2007

ISBN

1-282-90155-9

9786612901553

2-86978-419-8

2-86978-375-2

2-86978-292-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Disciplina

378.6761

Soggetti

Privatization in education - Uganda

Education, Higher - Economic aspects - Uganda

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-289) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



public against the private, and the state...

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958580603321

Titolo

Globalization in English studies / / edited by Maria Georgieva and Allan James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, 2010

ISBN

1-282-58843-5

9786612588433

1-4438-2049-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GeorgievaMaria

JamesAllan (Allan R.)

Disciplina

303.482

Soggetti

Globalization

English language - Social aspects - Foreign countries

English language - Social aspects - English-speaking countries

Intercultural communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

Globalization, the concept used to account for the multitude of linkages, interconnections and interdependences that currently



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...