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Howard, Adam; Maxwell, Claire – Multicultural Education Review, 2021
We take a necessary de-imperialist approach to studying how 'Eastern' and 'Western' values are negotiated in an elite school in Taiwan. By drawing on the 'Asia as method' framework, we examine how cultural tensions are identified and moved towards a negotiated resolution between parents and school staff. As parents and school work to develop an…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Asian Culture, Western Civilization
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Bajenova, Tatyana – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2019
This article explores the strategies think tanks (TTs) from Brussels, London, Paris and Ljubljana use to exert influence on European Union (EU) policy-making. The paper argues that European TTs mobilise symbolic, political and network forms of capital built at the European level to enhance their legitimacy, credibility and visibility in the…
Descriptors: Expertise, Policy Formation, Organizations (Groups), Foreign Countries
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Friedman, Jonathan Z. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
Cosmopolitanism has been cast by some in recent years as a form of cultural capital, disproportionately available to students on elite educational pathways. This article tests this supposition, by comparing the enactment of global citizenship education reforms at two high-status and two low-status universities in the United Kingdom. These…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Higher Education, Prosocial Behavior, Comparative Analysis
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Mutisya, Philliph Masila; Osler, James Edward, II – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2017
There are sweeping changes facing higher education institutions today that have resulted in diminished power, privilege, and prestige that the professorate have had in the past. Higher education institutions are faced with many challenges that often demand radical changes in the reconceptualization of the professorship and adversely preservation…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Governance, Participative Decision Making, Reputation
Hazelkorn, Ellen – Council for Higher Education Accreditation, 2015
Rankings work by comparing higher education institutions (HEIs) using a range of indicators, which are usually weighted according to priority. Rankings are used to inform student choice and stakeholder opinion, and to assess the performance of scientific-scholarly research. Research has shown that students, public opinion and government are the…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Reputation, Measurement, Global Approach
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Wright, Ewan; Lee, Moosung – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
This research investigated educational pathways into a Global Middle Class characterised by professional or managerial careers and cosmopolitan sensibilities. The focus was International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) alumni with upper-middle-class backgrounds at 'world-class' universities in Hong Kong. The first objective was to…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Advanced Placement Programs, Reputation, Universities
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Tamtik, Merli – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine parental and students' decisions regarding participating in K-12 level study abroad programs in Manitoba, Canada. Design/methodology/approach: The study reports on data collected through document analysis and semi-structured interviews with 18 international students and 14 parents. Findings: The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Shields, Robin – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
Much research on higher education has discussed the positional competition induced by global rankings and the complementary concept of "world-class" universities. This paper investigates the network of social media communication between globally ranked universities. Specifically, it examines whether universities seek to preserve and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Universities, Reputation, Classification
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Jokila, Suvi; Kallo, Johanna; Mikkilä-Erdmann, Mirjamaija – European Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Globalisation has transformed the field of higher education by increasing flows of mobile students. This has had significant repercussions not only for countries that take advantage of the expansion of exports of English-medium programmes but also for countries that have not risen to prominent positions in the global education market, such as…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Student Recruitment, Student Mobility, English (Second Language)
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Ariail, Donald L. – Georgia Journal of College Student Affairs, 2016
Despite being the smallest of the BRICS in population and having a relatively small number of public institutions of higher education (HE), South Africa (SA) has several world class universities and is the HE leader on the African continent. This paper presents an overview of various demographic aspect of HE in SA including types of institutions,…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, State Universities
Liu, Nian Cai – Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, 2016
The first multi-indicator ranking of world universities, "Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)", was published by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in June 2003. Although the initial purpose of ARWU was to find the global standing of top Chinese universities, it has been attracting world-wide…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Quality
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Schatz, Monika; Popovic, Ana; Dervin, Fred – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
Since the recent global paradigm shift in the governance of higher education toward business and marketing, internationally competitive education is increasingly considered as an asset for governments. Consequently, governments started to invest in education branding and marketing their educational systems. In Finland, national interest in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Higher Education, Universities
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Boshier, Roger – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
China is trying to develop better outcomes for students, build world-class institutions and ascend global university rankings. Beijing also wants to jettison the notion it is the workshop of the world and embrace a culture of innovation. Peter Jarvis thinks the world would be a better place if ordinary people were given convivial spaces wherein…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Change, College Students, Teacher Student Relationship
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Shephard, Kerry; Bourk, Michael; Mirosa, Miranda; Dulgar, Pete – Environmental Education Research, 2017
We used a modified circuit of culture enquiry to explore processes of production, representation and consumption of global perspective at our university, in the context of fostering this perspective as a graduate attribute. We identified four frame packages by which this perspective is understood and communicated. Global perspective is framed…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Global Education, World Views, Student Development
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Forster, Nick – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
This article explains why there are so few world-class universities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region today. It first summarises the systemic exogenous economic, political and social problems facing all countries in the region, and the impact of these on the development of their higher education sectors in recent times. Then, with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Reputation, Global Approach
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