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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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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
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Kolesnikov, V. N.; Kucher, I. V.; Turchenko, V. N. – Russian Education and Society, 2005
The crisis of education is one of the most pressing problems in the world today. Russia's crisis in this sphere has taken on the character of an emergency owing to the unprecedented wholesale cutbacks in budget funding. In this article, the authors discuss the commercialization of Russia's higher education, leading to its degradation and threat to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Professional Education, National Security