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World Higher Education Database

World Higher Education Database – WHED
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With exhaustive coverage of higher education institutions and education systems, accessible through an easy-to-use interface, user-friendly search facilities on a large variety of fields, it is the most comprehensive and efficient tool to find information about higher education throughout the world.

In the WHED, you will find the following:
  • A description of the education system and credentials of 183 countries
  • Information and admission criteria for national and overseas students
  • Quality assurance and recognition systems
  • Contact details for national bodies
  • Detailed information (location and description, type of institution, officers, academic divisions, degrees, student services, etc) on some 14,000 HEIs offering at least a post-graduate degree or a four year professional diploma
The WHED is published every year and was revamped in 2008.

The current edition was published in March 2009; the next edition will be available in January 2010.

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World Higher Education Database 2009, IAU

Palgrave, Macmillan’s global academic publishing

March 2009

ISBN: 9781403992635 (single-user version)   

IAU Members benefit from a complimentary copy of the WHED and get a 50% discount on all additional copies they might wish to buy.

For non IAU Members, the WHED CD-Rom is available from:

Palgrave Macmillan’s Global Academic Publishing
Houndmills, Basingstoke
Hampshire RG21 6XS, UK
Tel : +44 (0)1256 329242  - Fax : +44 (0)1256 357268
Direct Customer Service: orders@palgrave.com
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=271258 (single user version)

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