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How central is the "principal mission" of the university today? / Chris Duke -- Canada -- Access to and participation in higher education in Canada / Hans Schuetze and Walter Archer -- Aboriginal higher education and indigenous students / Michelle Pidgeon -- Minding the gap : perspectives on graduate education for students with disabilities / Mahadeo A. Sukhai -- Student affairs and services in Canadian higher education / Kyle D. Massey -- The world reforms and myths : university graduates and the labor market in Mexico / Wietse de Vries -- Policies for adult students in Mexican higher education and motives for returning to study / German Alvarez Mendiola and Brenda Yokebed Perez Colunga -- The value of degrees and diplomas in Japan / Shinichi Yamamoto -- MOOCs, students, higher education and their paradoxes / Maureen W. McClure -- The expansion of higher education and first generation students in Germany : increasing participation or continuing exclusion? / Andra Wolter -- The abolition of tuition fees in Germany : student protests and their impact, or tuition fees in Germany : in and out / Dieter Timmermann -- Conditions of learning at high-ranked universities in four countries : an international student's perspective / Jade Zhao -- Student policies and protests : the student movements of the 1960s and the Canadian "maple spring" / Hans G. Schuetze -- Collective student action and student association in Quebec / Alexandre Beaupre-Lavallee and Olivier Begin-Caouette -- European higher education reforms and the role of students / Pavel Zgaga.

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