TY - BOOK AU - Santiago,Paulo ED - Organización para la Cooperación y Desarrollo Económicos. TI - Tertiary education for the knowledge society SN - 9789264046528 (v. 1. : pbk.) AV - LB 2324 T47.2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Paris PB - OECD KW - Education, Higher KW - International cooperation KW - Educación superior KW - Cooperación internacional KW - Evaluation KW - Evaluación KW - Higher education and state KW - Educación superior y Estado N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas; v. 1; Special features: governance, funding, quality. Setting the stage : impact, trends and challenges of tertiary education -- Setting the right course : steering tertiary education -- Matching funding strategies with national priorities -- Assuring and improving quality --; v. 2; Special features: equity, innovation, labour market, internationalisation. Achieving equity -- Enhancing the role of tertiary education in research and innovation -- The academic career : adapting to change -- Strengthening ties with the labour market -- Internationalisation : shaping strategies in the national context -- What next? : the challenges of policy implementation; Disponible también en World Wide Web N2 - This book provides an international investigation of tertiary education policy across its many facets -- governance, funding, quality assurance, equity, research and innovation, academic career, links to the labor market and internationalization. It presents an analysis of the trends and developments in tertiary education; a synthesis of research-based evidence on the impact of tertiary-education policies; innovative and successful policies and practices that countries have implemented; and tertiary-education policy options. The report draws on the results of a major OECD review of tertiary education policy -- the OECD Thematic Review of Tertiary Education -- conducted over the 2004-08 period in collaboration with 24 countries around the world.--Publisher's description ER -