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Determinants of Japanese-Trained Chinese PhDs' Academic Career Attainments
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Shuoyang Meng; Wenqin Shen – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
The Chinese government has been actively recruiting foreign-trained Chinese scholars to return to China since the Chinese brain drain began. Japan is among the most popular destinations for Chinese scholars seeking to receive doctoral training. This study explores the factors contributing to the stratification of Japanese-trained Chinese PhDs'…
Descriptors: Asians, Foreign Students, Doctoral Programs, Study Abroad
Bringing the 'Nation-State' into Being: Affect, Methodological Nationalism and Globalisation of Higher Education
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Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Grimm, Adam T. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
Methodological nationalism (MN) pervades higher education scholarship and practice, particularly in the arena of globalisation of higher education (HE) (Shahjahan and Kezar 2013). MN refers to the assumption that national boundaries define the natural category or unit of analysis for society. Drawing on affect theories, this conceptual article…
Descriptors: Correlation, Nationalism, Global Approach, Higher Education
Strategies for Reducing Brain Drain to Sustain Quality Higher Education in Nigeria
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Christian Akaeze – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Brain drain poses a substantial challenge to Nigerian higher education, impacting faculty retention and educational standards. Guided by SET and PPFT theories, this basic qualitative study explored administrative strategies to mitigate brain drain. Ten people, including deans and faculty members, participated in virtual interviews for the study.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Brain Drain, Partnerships in Education, College Faculty
Policy Decoupling in Strategic Response to the Double World-Class Project: Evidence from Elite Universities in China
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Song, Jia; Chu, Zhaofeng; Xu, Yuwei – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
Creating world-class universities (WCUs) has recently become a significant policy and practice in higher education in China under the Double World-Class Project. However, some negative effects have encouraged decoupling from the policy goals. To identify the reasons, we conducted policy document analysis and purposive interviews at three elite…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Reputation, Educational Quality, Institutional Characteristics
Quality Education Improvement: Yemen and the Problem of the "Brain Drain"
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Muthanna, Abdulghani – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
This paper presents an overview of the problems that hinder improvement of the quality of education in Yemen, with a particular focus on higher education institutions. It discusses in particular the problem of the brain drain and why this phenomenon is occurring in Yemen. Semi-structured interviews with three professors at higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Brain Drain, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Teacher Drain from China's Higher Education Institutions and Some Consequences of This Drain
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Shufeng, Xu; Shihua, Cui; Zhaoping, Sun; Xianlei, Zhang – Chinese Education and Society, 2005
Teachers are where the major strength of organizational control lies in the educational process; it is mainly they who restrict the quality of education and teaching and who are the irreplaceable factor in determining how well a school is run and its overall image. Therefore, once a teacher drain from higher education institutions begins, it is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Brain Drain