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Towards a Commonwealth of Scholars: A New Vision for the Nineties   Lalage Brown Size: unspecified ISSN: Categories: Education, Practical Books for Teachers and Inspectors ISBN No: 978-0-85092-402-2 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 01-1994 Number of Pages: 64 Status: Out of stock Price: £ 8.00    [Currency converter]   Download a PDF with additional information for this publication Description Within the universities of the Commonwealth there has always been a sense of a common educational and research tradition.   A workshop was held in Singapore in April 1992 to outline the strategies and mechanisms for developing, maintaining and expanding student flows into the universities and polytechnics of the Commonwealth South and for the extension of South-South exchange. Material from the Singapore papers is here brought together in a readable form, providing:   An historical background to the new initiatives A thorough analysis of the major policy issues A set of case studies   Contents List of Tables Preface List of Abbreviations   Part One: Introduction 1. Active, not Passive: A Commonwealth Agenda for Redirecting Student Flows Lalage Brown 2. Towards a Commonwealth of Scholars: Developing Foreign Student Flows into Universities of the South Lalage Brown   Part Two: Academic Interchange and Institution Building in the Commonwealth 3. Trends, Problems and a Commonwealth Project Jasbir Singh 4. Student Mobility Networks: The Case for a Commonwealth Scheme Elizabeth Dines   Part Three: Perspectives From the South: Some Viewpoints 5. Student Mobility and Internationalisation: A Perspective from the English-speaking Caribbean Ancilla Armstrong and J.E. Greene 6. Academic Exchange: Student Flows, Exchange Schemes and Capacity Building in India Karuna Chanana Ahmad and Aparna Basu 7. Policy, Expectations and Shortfalls: Nigerian Views and Experiences A. Jones Akinpelu   Part Four: From North to South: Flows from the Post-Industrial Countries 8. Against the Grain? Student Mobility from Britain to Commonwealth Developing Countries Hilary Callan and Kate Steele 9. Internationalising Canadian Universities: Student Mobility to Developing Countries The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada   Part Five: Mobility in Practice: Case Studies and Experiments 10. Academic Exchange Schemes in Malaysia Leong Yni Ching 11. Two Contrasting Africa Cases: Kenya and Zimbabwe Parvin Walji and Peter Dzvimbo 12. World Class Institutions and Student Mobility: The Indian Institutes of Technology Jayalakshmi Indiresan 13. Open to Talent: Higher Education in Singapore G. Gopinathan   Appendices References List of Contributors