TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ahoud Al-Asfour
PY  - 2019
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2193-7613
SN  - 9783631772973
TI  - Higher Education Privatization in Kuwait
T2  - A Study in the Processes of Policy Production
DO  - 10.3726/b15463
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057113
N2  - Over the past four decades, higher education privatization became a common policy choice for higher education reforms in most emerging systems due to lack in public resources. In Kuwait however, similar financial pressures did not exist. Influenced by the "glonacal agency heuristic," the author investigates the processes of its policy production. Following a comparative qualitative approach, the book concludes that privatization is not a necessary outcome of globalization, but that the production of higher education privatization policies in Kuwait has involved a complex interplay of both local and global factors, with contextual realities playing a crucial role not only in the introduction of these policies but also in defining the form of privatization that is currently being implemented.
KW  - Kuwait OR GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), Policy Process, Private Higher Education, Globalisation
LA  - English
ER  -