Higher Education Privatization in Kuwait
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- ISBN 9783631772966
- Weight: 434g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2019
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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Over the past four decades, higher education privatization became a common policy choice for higher education reforms in most emerging systems due to lack in public resources. In Kuwait however, similar financial pressures did not exist. Influenced by the "glonacal agency heuristic," the author investigates the processes of its policy production. Following a comparative qualitative approach, the book concludes that privatization is not a necessary outcome of globalization, but that the production of higher education privatization policies in Kuwait has involved a complex interplay of both local and global factors, with contextual realities playing a crucial role not only in the introduction of these policies but also in defining the form of privatization that is currently being implemented.
Ahoud Al-Asfour is Assistant Professor at the Department of Educational foundations and Leadership at the College of Basic Education - PAAET in Kuwait. She completed a master’s degree in Education Policy International at the University of Melbourne and received her PhD in Higher Education Privatization Policies in Kuwait from the same University in Australia in 2015. Her main research area is comparative education.
