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George Lafferty – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
In 2014, the Australian Government introduced the New Colombo Plan (NCP), whereby undergraduate students would become 'informal ambassadors' enhancing Australia's 'soft power' within the Asia-Pacific region. Participation by students, universities, host organisations and communities expanded rapidly before Australia's pandemic-driven closure of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Study Abroad, Supervisors
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Ge, Yun; Ho, K. C. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2018
This paper adopts a political economy perspective in understanding how the country context frames the development of higher education doctoral science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs. We argue that a country's commitment to research and development spending as a strategy to maintain its economic competitiveness creates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students