When masses meet markets: credentialism and commodification in twenty-first century Higher Education.
The institutional form and conception of Higher Education have changed through the growth of mass higher education, which in many national systems now operates on market logics. Drawing on theories of credentialism, this article provides a critical analysis of the inter-relationship between massific...
| Publicado en: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 173 - 188 |
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