Higher Education in Small Islands

Rosie Alexander is Lecturer in Career Guidance and Development at the University of the West of Scotland.Holly Henderson teaches Social Science at Fircroft College of Adult Education, Birmingham.

"A refreshingly new and specific point of view on higher education, foregrounding small island contexts that seldom feature in our imaginations and discussions." Mikateko Mathebula, University of the Free State

• Foreword: Some Random Reflections on Higher Education Institutions in Small Islands by Godfrey Baldacchino1. Introduction - Holly Henderson and Rosie AlexanderPart 1: Scale, Smallness and Higher Education Development2. Small but Complex: The Governance and Management of Public Higher Education Institutions – the Case of Malta - Colin Borg and Carmel Borg3. Underdeveloped, Frontier and Outermost: Small Island Universities in Indonesia - Agustian Sutrisno and Hitendra Pillay4. The Perceived Quality of Higher Education in Oceania: Autoethnographic Insights from the Regional University of the South Pacific - Sargam Goundar and Kim Andreas Kessler5. Island Higher Education and Youth Migration: Retention, Attraction or Rotation? - Rosie AlexanderPart 2: Global Contexts for Island Higher Education6. What Does Internationalization in Isolation Mean for Higher Education in Small Island States? - Daniela Craciun and Ariane de Gayardon7. Insularity and Internationalization: The Case of Mauritius - Shaheen Motala-Timol8. Glocalizing Higher Education and Decolonial Work in Oceania - David Taufui Mikato Fa‘avae and Jean M. Uasike Allen9. Conclusions - Rosie Alexander and Holly Henderson