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Blog U.: Are we witnessing denationalization of the higher education media? - GlobalHigherEd - Inside Higher Ed

Blog U.: Are we witnessing denationalization of the higher education media? - GlobalHigherEd - Inside Higher Ed

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  • Are we witnessing denationalization of the higher education media?

    By Kris Olds July 15, 2010 12:38 am
    The denationalization of higher education – the process whereby developmental logics, frames, and practices, are increasingly associated with what is happening at a larger (beyond the nation) scale continues apace. As alluded to in my last two substantive entries:
    this process is being shaped by new actors, new networks, new rationalities, new technologies, and new temporal rhythms. Needless to say, this development process is also generating a myriad of impacts and outcomes, some welcome, and some not.
    While the denationalization process is a phenomenon that is of much interest to policy-making institutions (e.g., the OECD), foundations and funding councils, scholarly research networks, financial analysts, universities, and the like, I would argue that it is only now, at a