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Edited by Philip G. Altbach, Jamil Salmi
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The importance of tertiary education for economic growth and
competitiveness is increasingly recognized as critical not just for
middle-income and advanced countries, but also for low-income ones.
Access to a solid, world-class curriculum helps develop a skilled,
productive, and flexible labor force that can positively influence
productive activities by creating, applying, and spreading new ideas
and technologies. Research universities are emerging as the central
institutions of the 21st century knowledge economies.
The Road to Academic Excellence: The Making ofWorld-Class Research
Universities extends the analysis of the framework presented in The
Challenge of EstablishingWorld-Class Universities (Salmi 2009),
examining the recent experience of 11 universities in 9 countries that
have grappled with the challenges of building successful research
institutions in difficult circumstances and presenting the lessons
learned from these experiences. This report will be of interest to
policy makers and tertiary education leaders considering reforms and
innovations to improve their country's position in the global
scene.
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