This book explores the complexities of community colleges and global counterparts by focusing on critical analysis of governance, leadership, and mission.

Table of Contents

• Springer International Handbooks of Education
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Prologue 1
• Prologue 2
• Prologue 3
• Advisory Board
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Editors and Contributors
• Contributors
• Volume 1 Building a Higher Educational Sector
• 1 Building a Higher Educational Sector: Volume Introduction
• Globalization: Mission, Market Commodity, and the Philosophical Role
• 2 Community Colleges and Global Counterparts: Defining a Higher Educational Sector
• 3 The Changing Shape of Further and Higher Education in the UK
• 4 TAFE in Australia
• 5 Sustainability of Massification in East Asian Higher Education: Community Colleges in Hong Kong in Retrospect and Prospects
• 6 Transnational Education Policy and a Globally Competitive Workforce: A Comparative Analysis of Vocational Education and Training Policy in the European Union and the United States
• 7 Developments in the Postsecondary Education Niche in South Africa
• 8 Economics of Education in Afghanistan: Expanding Academic Programs Based on Market Demands Dictated by International Agency Funds Toward Self-Sustainability
• Institutional and Cultural Adaptations
• 9 From Pilot Project to Permanent Status: Community Colleges in Vietnam
• 10 Developing Community Education: A New Model of Community Colleges in Mainland China
• 11 Reenvisioning Community Colleges in Nepal: Preparing All Students for Success
• 12 Translating the Community College Concept in India
• Theories on Achieving Equity: Philosophy and Practice
• 13 Center and Periphery in Israel's Higher Education
• 14 Second-Tier Higher Education Institutions and the Diversity Challenge: Structural Components Adopted Through a Germanic Lens
• 15 Analyzing the Media Narratives in South Africa's #FeesMustFall Movement
• 16 Further Education Colleges in the United Kingdom: Providing Education for Other People's Children
• Class, Race, and Gender Inequalities: Implications for Educational Opportunities
• 17 Academic Education of Israeli Arabs: Transitions from 2006 to 2016 and the Impact on Their Social Integration
• 18 Challenges and Opportunities – Community College Development in Afghanistan: Serving Students and Gender Equity
• 19 Why the TVET System of French-Speaking African Countries is Not Able to Produce a Highly Qualified and Operational Man Power? A Comparison with Canadian Community Colleges
• 20 Technical Education in Colombia Between Expansion and Legitimacy: A Neo-Institutional Perspective
• Volume 2 Structural Components: The Challenges of Change
• 21 Structural Components: The Challenges of Change: Volume Introduction
• Curriculum, Program Assessment, and Quality Assurance
• 22 Functions, Organization, and Contemporary Challenges of the American Community College
• 23 Evaluation of Teaching and Learning Outcomes in Health Systems Management Studies, the Case of Israel: Ideal Versus Actual
• 24 Linking Internationalization to Student Success: Voices from Stakeholders
• 25 Evolution of Community Colleges in Thailand: From Formal Establishment to the Present Time
• 26 Feasibility and Challenges on a National Qualifications Framework and Permeability in Education and Training System in Japan
• 27 Quality Assurance in China's New Public Higher Education Institutions: Achievements, Challenges, and Illustrative Case Studies
• Internationalization: Designing Curricular, Mobility, and Partnerships Opportunities
• 28 Enablers and Constrainers of Internationalization of Higher Education Institutions: A Case Study from Portugal
• 29 The Internationalization of Vocational Education in Brazil's Federal Institutes: Another Model
• 30 A Horse of a Different Color? Reexamining International Students at Community Colleges in the USA and Canada
• 31 Vietnam and Higher Education Internationalization: The Promise of Community Colleges
• 32 Promoting Green Skills in the Caribbean: A Grenada–Canada Partnership to Educate and Train the Sustainable Development Practitioner for the Twenty-First Century
• Innovation: Adaptation to Education Needs of the Learner
• 33 Adult Learning in Italy: Historical Context and Perspectives for a New Provision
• 34 Meeting the Challenges of Globalization while Preserving Institutional Singularity: The Case of Quebec CEGEPs
• 35 Roles of Community College for Community Development in Malaysia: Entrepreneurship Education Program
• 36 The Community College Branch Campus in Kuwait: Meeting Needs of the People and of Industry
• 37 Educational Reform Through Sponsored Projects in Curacao: Government-Sponsored Technical and Career Institutions, Postsecondary Education, and the Challenges of Workforce Development
• 38 Upgrading Polytechnic in Namibia to the Namibia University of Science and Technology and the Post-secondary Education Niche in Namibia
• Pathways Post-completion: Career Advancement, University Transfer, and Baccalaureate Degrees
• 39 Developing a Skilled Workforce Through Technical and Vocational Education and Training in the Philippines
• 40 Fostering Creative, Practical, and Professional Engineers: National Institute of Technology (KOSEN) in Japan
• 41 The Community College Concept and Youth Unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
• 42 When the Walls Come Tumbling Down: A Case Study of Community Colleges Within a Canadian High Mobility Postsecondary System
• 43 Dimensions of Collaboration Between Community Colleges and Universities in Facilitating Attainment of Baccalaureate Degrees in Career and Technical Education
• Concluding Chapter
• 44 Community Colleges and Global Counterparts as Evolving Forms
• Erratum to: Developing a Skilled Workforce Through Technical and Vocational Education and Training in the Philippines