PROPHE and Routledge launch new book series, THE GLOBAL REALITIES OF PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION. The first two volume, Private Higher Education in Asia: Changing the Dynamics of Privateness and Publicness is available, to be followed by Public Policy and Private Higher Education. For further series information here.
PROPHE extends its full longitudinal database through 2015. Global Data, including a range of analytical tables from Levy’s 2024 book.
For notice of the original dataset (through 2010) in the Times Higher Education, see here, and for the first journal article analyzing the PROPHE dataset (through 2010), see here.
See Country Data and Laws on Private Higher Education.
See contributions to International Higher Education.
PHE in the NEWS: A Compilation of over 3,000 News Reports on Private Higher Education Globally.
CORE BOOK PUBLISHED. A WORLD OF PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION, director Levy’s long-awaited book with broad empirical, conceptual, comparative, and historical analysis of the world’s PHE, has just been published by the Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-world-of-private-higher-education-9780198903529?q=9780198903529&cc=gb&lang=en
Private Surge in Western Europe. In 2000, both Western and Eastern Europe had c.1.6 million private enrollments, slightly above 10% of each sub-region's total enrollment. Today, while Eastern Europe shows only similar size, Western Europe has c. 3.8 million private enrollments, nearing a 20% share. Levy continues as international consultant for the German government's funded research projects on the German surge, while addressing the broader West European reality, including with lecturing, consultation, and field research in Germany as well as in the Netherlands, Czech Republic, and Italy.
Membership Diversification. See the revamped roster on the Members page.
