High Participation Systems of Higher Education

Dr Brendan Cantwell Brendan Cantwell is an associate professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education in Michigan State University's Department of Educational Administration. His research, which has been published in a variety of journals and books, addresses the political economy of higher education. Dr Cantwell is a co-editor of The Handbook of Politics of Higher Education (with Hamish Coates and Roger King) and is a Coordinating Editor for the journal Higher Education. Professor Simon Marginson Simon Marginson is Professor of International Higher Education at the UCL Institute of Education at University College London in the UK, Director of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), and Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education. CGHE is a government-research partnership of five UK and eight international universities with 16 projects on global, national, and local aspects of higher education. Professor Marginson's research and published scholarship are focused on the global and international dimensions of higher education, on national system dynamics, and on higher education and social equality. Dr Anna Smolentseva Anna Smolentseva is a senior researcher at the Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She is a sociologist who works on the changing role of higher education in societies, educational inequality, and transformations in post-socialist higher education systems. Dr Smolentseva received a PhD in sociology from Moscow State University. She has been a recipient of a US National Academy of Education/Spencer postdoctoral fellowship, Fulbright New Century Scholar grant, and a visiting scholar at the CSHPE at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is an author of a number of publications in Russian and English.