ELHE7202 Global and Comparative Systems of Higher Education Fall 2019
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Getting Started
Supports finding key resources of scholarly literature on global and comparative issues in higher education
Getting started
This guide provides international education links to key sources of scholarly literature on global and comparative issues in higher education as well as organizations producing data and trends.
"OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data."
The World Bank Education Statistics database provides data on key education topics with over 1500 variables. Themes included are demographics, literacy rates, educational attainment, enrollment, expenditures, employment. Many topics provide gender statistics. Covers 228 countries with some long term projections. Easy export to Excel.
World Higher Education Database Online is an authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date collection of information on higher education institutions and systems worldwide. It provides a fully cross-referenced and searchable database featuring information on over 17,000 institutions in more than 180 countries. Detailed information on the higher education system of every country is also included.
"The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities."
Standard summary of statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the U.S. Includes data from governmental and private sources. Serves as a guide to other statistical sources.
Education Source covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for a very large number of journals, as well as full text for over one thousand journals. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. This database also includes full text for hundreds of books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. EBSCO personal data FAQ
ProQuest Education Journals provides access to a large number of educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text. The resource covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
