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Professor, Director of the Comparative Education Center, State University of New York at Buffalo. He has written widely on higher education, and is most recently Editor of International Encyclopedia of Comparative Higher Education(1990). Former Editor of Comparative Education Review.
The author is indebted to Robert Arnove, Gail P. Kelly and Lionel Lewis for their comments' on this article and to Lalita Subramanyan for her assistance with editing.
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Altbach, P.G. Patterns in higher education development. Prospects 21, 189–203 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02336060
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