Centers of Learning: Britain, France, Germany, United States

by Philip G. Altbach, Ben-David, Joseph Ben-David

Book Overview

The universities of Britain, France, Germany, and the United States stem from a common European academic tradition and are today among the most influential and powerful in the world. Each has cultivated a high degree of scientific excellence and intellectual autonomy and has served as a model for world higher education. Yet these four systems are structurally distinct and show considerably different patterns of development. In Centers of Learning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560006048
• ISBN13: 9781560006046
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"