Universities for a New World: Making a Global Network in International Higher Education, 1913-2013

The volume marks the centenary, in 2013, of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), the first and oldest modern global association of universities in higher education. It provides a useful record of the ACU’s first century and also throws light on many aspects of higher education. The critical essays examine the global revolution on higher education, focusing on the benefits as well as the losses. Pointing out problems like lack of quality education, they present thoughts on the complex future of universities in the 21st century. Drawing from recent social science literature in the area of higher education research, the authors, incorporating their involvement with executive leadership in universities, policy development and scholarship on higher education, discuss instruments and symbols of change in higher education. There are regional case studies in access, equity and social change though higher education.