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Morgan, W. John, Ed.; Wu, Bin, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
A major transformation of Chinese higher education (HE) has taken place over the past decade--China has reshaped its higher education sector from elite to mass education with the number of graduates having quadrupled to three million a year over six years. China is exceptional among lower income countries in using tertiary education as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Access to Education
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Boshier, Roger – New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning, 2002
Human and social capital discourses attempt to explain New Zealand's brain drain. Solutions related to each discourse involve offering incentives for returning or creating links so that expatriates can contribute to their homeland from abroad. Establishing such "diaspora networks" might be the role of adult education. (Contains 43…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Brain Drain, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Akoojee, Salim; McGrath, Simon – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2004
This article reviews the effects of globalization on South Africa a decade after the transition to a post-apartheid system. It brings together some of the recent literature of the performance of the economy and concomitant changes in education. It shows the pervasive force of globalization on South African education and training and explores in…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Global Approach, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Das Gupta, A.K., Ed.; And Others – 1968
The 155 abstracts contained in this annotated bibliography cover the period from July to September 1968 and include the following categories: Academic Achievement; Administration and Organization; Adult and Basic Education; Brain Drain; CASTASIA; Correspondence and Other Courses of Study; Curriculum; Education (Economics, Elementary, Higher,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Brain Drain
Gourova, Elissaveta – 2003
A study examined information and communication technologies (ICT) job trends and the prospects for preservation and supply of high skilled professionals in the medium and longer term in candidate countries (CCs), for admission into the European Union, focusing on Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, and Poland. Rapidly changing technology and growth of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aging (Individuals), Brain Drain, Demand Occupations
1998
This document contains four papers from a symposium on the changing workplace and its relationship to human resource development (HRD). In "Globalization, Immigration and Quality of Life Dynamics for Reverse Brain Drains" (Ben-Chieh Liu, Maw Lin Lee, Hau-Lien), the factors responsible for the brain drain from Taiwan to the United States…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Brain Drain, Education Work Relationship, Employee Attitudes