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Commonwealth scholarships began in 1959. They have since moved 25,000 people across borders, launching them into influence as politicians, poets, painters, professors - and the rest. Their stories illuminate the sociology and politics of higher education, of the Commonwealth, and of its member countries: they include the last scholar before apartheid took South Africa out of the Commonwealth, who became a high court judge, and the first after it came back, now a vice-chancellor. Half a century of British society shows up in the record of the Scholarship Commission that made Britain's awards. Its first chairman, the son of a general, was the Lord Chamberlain, taking time off from censoring plays. His successor in 2008 took time off from a day-job as professor in a new university. Her father had left school early to look after the pigs. This book sets out the narrative of the scholarship plan from its unlikely conception in a Commonwealth trade conference. By asking who was selected for scholarships, how, and why, it examines the policies of countries offering scholarships and those receiving them, looks at their role within the universities of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, discusses the experience of scholars as they studied abroad, and assesses the long-term impact of that experience. Three themes stand out. First, scholarship policy, increasingly now part of aid policy, has been shaped by the interplay of national politics and education. Second, crossborder university enrolments are themselves now big business and the stuff of international politics. Changes in the politics of the Commonwealth, as they have influenced international educational policy, provide a microcosm. Third, the experience and achievements of former scholars answer the evaluative policy question: was investing in scholarships a good way of spending public money?
Hardcover:
9781443806008 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, June 1, 2009, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: Commonwealth scholarships began in 1959.
Paperback:
9781443880633 | 2 edition (Cambridge Scholars Pub, October 15, 2015), cover price $42.95
Hardcover:
9781137294944 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 29, 2014, cover price $100.00
Hardcover:
9780415594929 | Routledge, January 24, 2011, cover price $155.00
Product Description: This revised and updated edition of Open and Distance Learning in the Developing World sets the expansion of distance education in the context of general educational change and explores its use for basic and non-formal education, schooling, teacher training and higher education...read more
Hardcover:
9780415393973 | 2 edition (Routledge, December 30, 2006), cover price $155.00 | About this edition: This revised and updated edition of Open and Distance Learning in the Developing World sets the expansion of distance education in the context of general educational change and explores its use for basic and non-formal education, schooling, teacher training and higher education.
Paperback:
9780415393980 | 2 edition (Routledge, December 30, 2006), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This revised and updated edition of Open and Distance Learning in the Developing World sets the expansion of distance education in the context of general educational change and explores its use for basic and non-formal education, schooling, teacher training and higher education.
Miscellaneous:
9780203983867 | 2 edition (Routledge, November 29, 2006), cover price $56.95
Miscellaneous:
9780203038741 | Routledge, March 11, 2002, cover price $189.95
Paperback:
9780801825880 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 1, 1985), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Book by Perraton
Hardcover:
9780801825873 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, December 1, 1982, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Book by Perraton
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