Applying a world-city network approach to globalizing higher education: Conceptualization, data collection and the lists of world cities

Higher Education Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 107-126

  Chow, Alice S Y ^a   Loo, Becky P Y ^b  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Flows of knowledge and people; Geographies of education; Globalization; Globalizing Education Index; Higher education; World cities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938546232     PISSN: 09528733     EISSN: 17403863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/hep.2014.31     Document Type: Article

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