Robert Cowen

Robert Cowen is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Education at the Institute of Education of the University of London, and also a Senior Research Fellow in Oxford University. He was President of CESE from 2004-2008. His research interests include higher education systems, and especially the ‘quality’ control of universities. Among his most recent publications are: “Extreme Political Systems, Deductive Rationalities, and Comparative Education: Education as Politics’ (in D. Halpin and P. Walsh, eds., Educational Commonplaces: Essays to Honour Denis Lawton, London: Institute of Education University of London, 2005), “Acting Comparatively upon the Educational World: Puzzles and Possibilities” (Oxford Review of Education, 2006 32: 561-573), and “Comparing and Transferring: Visions, Politics and Universities’, in Higher Education and National Development: Universities and Societies in Transition, D. Bridges et al, eds. (London and New York: Routledge, 2007).

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