When students travel across national borders to pursue education they participate in a global mar... more When students travel across national borders to pursue education they participate in a global market. On the latest available statistics, the education market grew 77 percent worldwide in the decade beginning in the year 2000 (1). Australia is engaged in an ongoing race for the maximisation of its share. Currently it ranks third, equal with Germany at seven percent share of the total number of international students worldwide. The US and the UK are first and second respectively, at 18 percent and 9.9 percent (OECD 2011: 320, 322). France is after Germany and Australia and has 6.3 percent, while Canada has 4.7 percent. Some countries directly regulate the welfare of international students during the overseas stay. Australia is one of them. New Zealand, which has the world's tenth largest share at 1.7 percent, has an extensive programme in its Code for the Pastoral Care of International Students. No other competitor nation has taken the direct regulation approach, though most coun...
Australia is a medium-sized country with a system of higher education similar to that of the Unit... more Australia is a medium-sized country with a system of higher education similar to that of the United States. But there is one dramatic difference. Nearly one Australian student in every five is a foreigner, mostly from East and Southeast Asia, paying full tuition. International education ...
The field of international comparative education is constructed by relations of power and conflic... more The field of international comparative education is constructed by relations of power and conflict. Comparative education contains an intrinsic tension between "sameness" and "difference." The dominant approach tends toward sameness and the elimination of variation, while one critique of the dominant approach tends toward an ultra-relativist focus on difference that would ultimately render comparison impossible. The principal practical role of comparative education, especially in its English language traditions, has been to provide technical support for hegemonic policy strategies of convergence, imitation, and homogenization, whereby national education systems are pushed toward global models based on idealized representations of "Western" education. This paper is positioned at a critical distance from the hegemonic relations of power in the field of comparative education, to (1) critique the positivist mainstream of the field; (2) review the field in l...
We might start with the National University of Ireland. In 1845 the Queen’s College Act establish... more We might start with the National University of Ireland. In 1845 the Queen’s College Act established constituent colleges in Cork, Galway and Belfast. In 1851 John Henry Newman was made the first rector of the Catholic University. It was independent of the coloniserstate. At first the new University was blocked from granting degrees but in 1882 it became University College Dublin (UCD); and in 1908 UCD, Cork and Galway were federated in the National University of Ireland. Then these universities, like their counterparts elsewhere, began their long ascent to the peak of society. UCD alone now has 33,724 students. It is a global university. And it grants degrees. In the most recent year there were 8857 awards.
This is a major work by three international scholars at the cutting edge of new research that inv... more This is a major work by three international scholars at the cutting edge of new research that investigates the emerging set of complex relationships between creativity, design, research, higher education and knowledge capitalism. It highlights the role of the creative and expressive arts, of performance, of aesthetics in general, and the significant role of design as an underlying infrastructure for the creative economy. This book tracks the most recent mutation of these serial shifts - from postindustrial economy to the information economy to the digital economy to the knowledge economy to the 'creative economy' - to summarize the underlying and essential trends in knowledge capitalism and to investigate post-market notions of open source public space. The book hypothesizes that creative economy might constitute an enlargement of its predecessors that not only democratizes creativity and relativizes intellectual property law, but also emphasizes the social conditions of c...
The distinction between public, or government-sector, and private higher education is ajuridical ... more The distinction between public, or government-sector, and private higher education is ajuridical one based on legal ownership.' Privatization refers to a change of ownership from the public to the private sector. The terms "public" and "private" often signify differences in finance, ...
Australia is a medium-sized country with a system of higher education similar to that of the Unit... more Australia is a medium-sized country with a system of higher education similar to that of the United States. But there is one dramatic difference. Nearly one Australian student in every five is a foreigner, mostly from East and Southeast Asia, paying full tuition. International ...
Abstract. This paper offers an overarching analytical heuristic that takes us beyond current rese... more Abstract. This paper offers an overarching analytical heuristic that takes us beyond current research, anchored in conceptions of national states, markets, and systems of higher education institutions. We seek to shape comparative higher education research with regard to ...
Page 1. The public/private divide in higher education: A global revision1 ... Abstract. Our commo... more Page 1. The public/private divide in higher education: A global revision1 ... Abstract. Our common understandings of the public/private distinction in higher education are drawn from neo-classical economics and/or statist political philosophy. ...
When students travel across national borders to pursue education they participate in a global mar... more When students travel across national borders to pursue education they participate in a global market. On the latest available statistics, the education market grew 77 percent worldwide in the decade beginning in the year 2000 (1). Australia is engaged in an ongoing race for the maximisation of its share. Currently it ranks third, equal with Germany at seven percent share of the total number of international students worldwide. The US and the UK are first and second respectively, at 18 percent and 9.9 percent (OECD 2011: 320, 322). France is after Germany and Australia and has 6.3 percent, while Canada has 4.7 percent. Some countries directly regulate the welfare of international students during the overseas stay. Australia is one of them. New Zealand, which has the world's tenth largest share at 1.7 percent, has an extensive programme in its Code for the Pastoral Care of International Students. No other competitor nation has taken the direct regulation approach, though most coun...
Australia is a medium-sized country with a system of higher education similar to that of the Unit... more Australia is a medium-sized country with a system of higher education similar to that of the United States. But there is one dramatic difference. Nearly one Australian student in every five is a foreigner, mostly from East and Southeast Asia, paying full tuition. International education ...
The field of international comparative education is constructed by relations of power and conflic... more The field of international comparative education is constructed by relations of power and conflict. Comparative education contains an intrinsic tension between "sameness" and "difference." The dominant approach tends toward sameness and the elimination of variation, while one critique of the dominant approach tends toward an ultra-relativist focus on difference that would ultimately render comparison impossible. The principal practical role of comparative education, especially in its English language traditions, has been to provide technical support for hegemonic policy strategies of convergence, imitation, and homogenization, whereby national education systems are pushed toward global models based on idealized representations of "Western" education. This paper is positioned at a critical distance from the hegemonic relations of power in the field of comparative education, to (1) critique the positivist mainstream of the field; (2) review the field in l...
We might start with the National University of Ireland. In 1845 the Queen’s College Act establish... more We might start with the National University of Ireland. In 1845 the Queen’s College Act established constituent colleges in Cork, Galway and Belfast. In 1851 John Henry Newman was made the first rector of the Catholic University. It was independent of the coloniserstate. At first the new University was blocked from granting degrees but in 1882 it became University College Dublin (UCD); and in 1908 UCD, Cork and Galway were federated in the National University of Ireland. Then these universities, like their counterparts elsewhere, began their long ascent to the peak of society. UCD alone now has 33,724 students. It is a global university. And it grants degrees. In the most recent year there were 8857 awards.
This is a major work by three international scholars at the cutting edge of new research that inv... more This is a major work by three international scholars at the cutting edge of new research that investigates the emerging set of complex relationships between creativity, design, research, higher education and knowledge capitalism. It highlights the role of the creative and expressive arts, of performance, of aesthetics in general, and the significant role of design as an underlying infrastructure for the creative economy. This book tracks the most recent mutation of these serial shifts - from postindustrial economy to the information economy to the digital economy to the knowledge economy to the 'creative economy' - to summarize the underlying and essential trends in knowledge capitalism and to investigate post-market notions of open source public space. The book hypothesizes that creative economy might constitute an enlargement of its predecessors that not only democratizes creativity and relativizes intellectual property law, but also emphasizes the social conditions of c...
The distinction between public, or government-sector, and private higher education is ajuridical ... more The distinction between public, or government-sector, and private higher education is ajuridical one based on legal ownership.' Privatization refers to a change of ownership from the public to the private sector. The terms "public" and "private" often signify differences in finance, ...
Australia is a medium-sized country with a system of higher education similar to that of the Unit... more Australia is a medium-sized country with a system of higher education similar to that of the United States. But there is one dramatic difference. Nearly one Australian student in every five is a foreigner, mostly from East and Southeast Asia, paying full tuition. International ...
Abstract. This paper offers an overarching analytical heuristic that takes us beyond current rese... more Abstract. This paper offers an overarching analytical heuristic that takes us beyond current research, anchored in conceptions of national states, markets, and systems of higher education institutions. We seek to shape comparative higher education research with regard to ...
Page 1. The public/private divide in higher education: A global revision1 ... Abstract. Our commo... more Page 1. The public/private divide in higher education: A global revision1 ... Abstract. Our common understandings of the public/private distinction in higher education are drawn from neo-classical economics and/or statist political philosophy. ...
Across the world STEM (learning and work in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) has... more Across the world STEM (learning and work in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) has taken central importance in education and the economy in a way that few other disciplines have. STEM competence has become seen as key to higher productivity, technological adaptation and research-based innovation. No area of educational provision has a greater current importance than the STEM disciplines yet there is a surprising dearth of comprehensive and world-wide information about STEM policy, participation, programs and practice. The Age of STEM is a state of the art survey of the global trends and major country initiatives in STEM. It gives an international overview of issues such as: STEM strategy and coordination; curricula, teaching and assessment; women in STEM; indigenous students; research training; STEM in the graduate labour markets; STEM breadth and STEM depth. The individual chapters give comparative international analysis as well as a global overview, particularly focusing on the growing number of policies and practices in mobilising and developing talent in the STEM fields. The book will be of particular interest to anyone involved in educational policy, those in education management and leaders in both schooling and tertiary education. It will have a wider resonance among practitioners in the STEM disciplines, particularly at university level, and for those interested in contemporary public policy.
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