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Shares her experience meeting Mohammed Yunus, "the friend of the poor," in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as she began her work as a goodwill ambassador for UNESCO. Although one of the poorest countries in the world, Bangladesh is providing an unprecedented transfer of assistance via Grameen Bank, in the form of microcredits (mostly to women), to other countries. It is asserted that this program could vanquish poverty from the world. The origins of the Grameen Bank are traced. The social change wrought by microcredit is linked to gender in developing countries. This antipoverty program also works to maintain & renew cultural heritage. The need for new markets is noted, & the need to provide market access to higher quality products made by the human hand is stressed, ie, high tech & "high touch" must exists side by side. J. Zendejas

Inhalt: Gellert, Claudius: Introduction: Changing Patterns in European Higher Education. - Structural Modifications of the Major Models (Teichler, Ulrich: Structures of Higher Education Systems in Europe. - Rau, Einhard: Inertia and Resistance to Change of the Humboldtian University. - Kogan, Maurice: The End of the Dual System? The Blurring of Boundaries in the British Tertiary Education System. - Jallade, Jean-Pierre/Lamoure, Jean/Lamoure Rontopoulou, Jeanne: Tertiary Diversification in France and the Conditions of Access. - Moscati, Roberto: Moving Towards Institutional Differentiation: The Italian Case. - Lamo de Espinosa, Emilio: The Spanish University in Transition). - Adaptation and Distinctiveness: Diversification in European Tertiary Training Systems (Grilo, Eduardo Marcal: The Transformation of Higher Education in Portugal. - Saitis, Christos: Main Features of Higher Education in Greece. - Clancy, Patrick: Goal Enlargement and Differentiation: The Evolution of the Binary System in Ireland. - Maassen, Peter A. M./Goedegebuure, Leo C. J./Westerheijden, Don F.: Social and Political Conditions for the Emerging Tertiary Structures in the Netherlands. - Wielemans, Williy/Vanderhoeven, Johan L.: New Tasks and Roles for Higher Education in Belgium and Luxembourg. - Bache, Poul: Reform and Differentiation in the Danish System of Higher Education). - Policy Impacts and Institutional Change (Witte, Bruno d: Higher Education and the Constituion of the European Community. - Leitner, Erich: Developments in European Community Politics of Higher Education - Observation from Outside. - Moses, Ingrid: Against the Stream: Australia's Policy of Tertiary Integration. - Gellert, Claudius: Structures and Functional Differentiation - Remerks on Changing Paradigms of Tertiary Education in Europe) (PHF/übern.)

During the 1980s, most European countries underwent substantial changes in their economic and educational systems. During the period it became clear that the discussions were going to be centered around the rapid changes being experienced by the higher education systems in practically all the countries of the region in their attempts to adapt themselves to new socio-economic conditions. In particular, much stress was given to the need to arrive at a clearer understanding of the diversification processes which were currently taking place in various higher education systems and of the combinations of factors which lead to such diversification. This book aims to discuss the features, the causes, and the national experiences of the ongoing processes of adaptation of higher education to changing societal needs and diversification of processes that were exerting similar influences on different national systems of higher education in European countries. ; UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education