Examines higher education in globalised conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. This book highlights four areas: Producing and Reproducing the University; Supplying Knowledge; Demanding Knowledge; and Transnational Academic Flows.

Supplying Knowledge - What structural and cultural changes are demanded from the university in its new role as a free market supplier of knowledge? Demanding Knowledge - Marketing and Consumption - How can consumers best assess the quality of education on a global scale? Transnational Academic Flows - What trends are evident in the flow of students, knowledge and capital, with what consequences ?The 2008 volume is interdisciplinary in its approach, drawing on scholarship from accounting, finance and human geography as well as from the field of education. Transnational influences examined include UNESCO and OECD, GATS and the effects of digital technologies. Contrasting contexts include Central and Eastern Europe, Finland, China and India and England. With its emphasis on the interrelationship of knowledge and power, and its attention to emergent spatial inequalities, "Geographies of Knowledge", "Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education" provides a rich and compelling resource for understanding emergent practices and relations of knowledge production and exchange in global higher education.