University Expansion in a Changing Global Economy ─ Triumph of the BRICs?

A study of higher education expansion and quality in the world's four largest developing economies—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—that asks how each state actively develops its higher education system, including achieving mass expansion and aiming for greater "quality," in the context of the many forces, global and local, that impinge on its society, including on its existing higher education institutions.

Martin Carnoy is the Vida Jacks Professor of Education, Stanford University. Prashant Loyalka is Center Fellow, Freeman-Spogli Institute, Stanford University. Maria Dobryakova is Research Fellow, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Rafiq Dossani is Senior Economist, Rand Corporation. Isak Froumin is Academic Director, Institute for Educational Studies, National Research University—Higher School of Economics. Katherine Kuhns is an Independent Consultant at WestEd and Gallop Ventures and a former Lecturer at Stanford University. Jandhyala B. G. Tilak is Professor and Chair of Educational Finance, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, India. Rong Wang is Director, China Institute for Education Finance Research, Peking University.