TY - JOUR AU - Altbach, Philip PY - 2008/01/09 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Globalization and Forces for Change in Higher Education JF - International Higher Education JA - IHE VL - 0 IS - 50 SE - The 50th Issue of IHE DO - 10.6017/ihe.2008.50.7997 UR - https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ihe/article/view/7997 SP - AB - For higher education, globalization implies the broad social, economic, and technological forces that shape the realities of the 21st century. Massification is without question the most ubiquitous global influence of the past half century or more. It brought themes regarding, public and private good, access, differentiation, and varied funding patterns, and declining of quality and conditions of study. The growth of information technology (IT) and the increasing dominance of English as the key language of communicating academic knowledge are also key elements of globalization. ER -