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Direct linkYuan Chih Fu; Juan José Moradel Vásquez; Bea Treena Macasaet; Angela Yung Chi Hou; Justin J. W. Powell – Higher Education Policy, 2024
To explore scientific mobility patterns, we leverage a rich bibliometric dataset on Taiwanese academia. We investigate the movement and productivity of 21,051 highly active researchers who published while affiliated with Taiwanese higher education institutions based on 30 years' worth of publication and affiliation records from 1991 to 2020. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Brain Drain, Scientific Research, Researchers
Chiang, Li-chuan – Higher Education Policy, 2012
Responding to the impacts of globalization and the knowledge economy, the increasing demand for higher education in East Asia is not only met by domestic higher education, but also by importing transnational higher education (TNHE). Importing TNHE becomes an export strategy to attract international students to contribute to capacity building for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Higher Education, Problems
Koh, Aaron – Higher Education Policy, 2012
Hitherto, research on transnational higher education student mobility tended to narrowly present hard statistics on student mobility, analysing these in terms of "trends" and the implication this has on policy and internationalizing strategies. What is missing from this "big picture" is a close-up analysis of the micropolitics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Student Mobility, Brain Drain
Welch, Anthony R.; Zhen, Zhang – Higher Education Policy, 2008
In the global era, transnational flows of highly skilled individuals are increasing. In the much-touted global knowledge economy, the contribution of such diasporic individuals and the knowledge networks that they sustain are recognized as being of increasing importance. Brain circulation is of critical importance to the "giant…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Talent, Brain Drain
Arikewuyo, M. Olalekan – Higher Education Policy, 2009
The Nigerian university system, in spite of its astronomical growth in size, has been beset by a barrage of problems, which are threatening its ability to perform the traditional roles of teaching, research and services. Such problems as highlighted in this paper include: unplanned expansion leading to proliferation of both private and public…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development
Al-Barwani, Thuwayba; Chapman, David W.; Ameen, Hana – Higher Education Policy, 2009
Oman will soon be producing three times more college graduates than there are jobs available in the country each year, forcing graduates to seek employment outside of Oman. Their success in securing and holding employment will be based more on training and performance than might be the case if they were working in Oman. If graduates find that the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Private Colleges, Labor Market, College Graduates
