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Philip G. Altbach

Researcher at Boston College

Publications -  482
Citations -  21611

Philip G. Altbach is an academic researcher from Boston College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Higher education & Comparative education. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 477 publications receiving 20157 citations. Previous affiliations of Philip G. Altbach include State University of New York System & University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Reforming Higher Education in the Middle East—and Elsewhere

TL;DR: Among the rallying cries of the youth revolutionary movements in the Middle East is a demand to reform higher education as discussed by the authors, and the complaints are numerous and well founded, including political interference at many levels, overcrowded classrooms, an inefficient and unresponsive administration, a decline in quality at all levels, an irrelevant curriculum, underqualified professors, and perhaps most significantly, degrees that do not lead to jobs.
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The Oldest Technology: textbooks in comparative context

TL;DR: In this paper, the Oldest Technology: textbooks in comparative context is discussed. But the focus is on the Middle Ages, and not on the present generation of textbooks, as in this paper.
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Chinese Higher Education in an Open-Door Era

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper reported that about 1,400 foreign higher education institutions have been approved by various education authorities in China to operate in the country, which is the largest number of institutions in the world.