University Expansion in a Changing Global Economy: Triumph of the BRICs?

By Carnoy Martin, L. Prashant, S. Maria, D. Rafiq, F. Isak, K. Katherine, B. Jandhyala, Rong Wang. 2013

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Higher education, changing labour market and social mobility in the era of massification in China (2016, background): “With its rapid expansion of higher education launched in 1999 in China, the share rose to 24% of the age cohort, or about 27 million students by 2009 (Carnoy et al. 2013, 48).”
Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education (2015, background): “The World Bank itself, influenced by Castells’ (1993) ‘engine of development’ paper, started to embrace the idea of the role of higher education in the knowledge economy and for development in the developing world.”
Generic and Specific Skills as Components of Human Capital: New Challenges for Education Theory and Practice (2019, background): “Among them were the need to foster civic literacy among the population as a means of stabilizing the political system, the desire to support social mobility, the project of building a nation state, and the social necessity of caring for children and youth [Kuzminov, Frumin, 2018; Meyer et al., 1992;”