Trends and consequences of globalization of higher education. Current awareness based on scientific abstracts and news clips. Tabbed pages provide scope and context.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | Video on TED.com
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Ben Wildavsky: Don't Fear the Globalization of Higher Education, and Embrace Free Trade in Minds - WSJ.com
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Transforming academic globalization into globalization for all - European Journal of Engineering Education
Driving innovation and continuous improvement with regard to ecological, environmental and human sustainability is essential for win-win globalization. That calls for research on strategic and monitoring planning to manage globalization and technological and scientific change. This paper describes a new basic function of the university institution 'to teach students to be critical about any kind of information' and presents perspectives, efforts and three proposals for the establishment of a system for managing globalization and technological and scientific change."
Embracing The Global Higher Education Market | Gov Monitor
For others, including many of our elected representatives, the global academic market dredges up more foreboding visions of a world in which America’s postwar preeminence in scientific research and innovation is quickly being superseded by the enterprising Chinese and Indian systems of higher education."
Friday, May 7, 2010
World Affairs Council
Every year, nearly three million international students study outside of their home countries, a 40 percent increase since 1999. Newly created or expanded universities in China, India and Saudi Arabia are now competing with European and North American academic institutions for faculty, students, and research preeminence. Meanwhile, satellite campuses of Western universities are springing up from Abu Dhabi and Singapore to South Africa. How is international competition for the brightest minds transforming the world of higher education? While some university and government officials see the rise of worldwide academic competition as a threat, Ben Wildavsky argues that the increased international mobility of students and cross-border expansion of higher education is creating a new global meritocracy, one in which the spread of knowledge benefits everyone--both educationally and economically.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Higher education, globalization and development
academic systems, institutions, and individual departments to cope with globalization. It has been defined as “the integration of an international dimension ... |