Tom Claes and David Seth Preston: Introduction Sociocultural Frontiers of Higher Education Seth A. Agbo: The Cultural Politics of Educational Inequality: Discarding the Prevailing Eurocentric Formulations of Academic Failure Dale Kirby: Tertiary Education in Canada: Closing the Access Gaps Philippa Hall: Privatisation and the Transformation of Higher Education in Nigeria since 1986: An Analysis of Global Inequalities Sarwet Rasul: Developing Active Citizenship: Universities as Agents of Social Change Limitations & Aspirations of the Academy Iva Apostolova: Should We Go to School? Is School a Shared Experience? Gary Peters: Ignorant Artists/Ignorant Teachers Rita Fornari: The Indicators and the Mission of Higher Education: What is the Gap? Sanja Petkovska: Questioning the Idea of the University in the Contemporary World Sonja Engelage and Andreas Hadjar: PhD and Career: Is a Doctoral Degree Worth it? James S. Taylor and Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor: Leading Strategic Change in Higher Education: The Need for a Paradigm Shift toward Visionary Leadership Technological Frontiers of Higher Education Bill Tait: Online Teaching with Learning Objects Johnnes Arreymbi and Chrisina Draganova: User Requirements Analysis for Use of Mobile Phones in Learning and Teaching Biographical Notes