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Yoko Mochizuki; Edward Vickers – Comparative Education, 2024
UNESCO's relatively high prestige across East Asia has spurred intensifying efforts by governments to use its imprimatur to legitimate official narratives of the past and visions of the future. This article focuses on China's use of UNESCO as an arena for competitive national 'branding' in the education field, especially relating to STEM and AI.…
Descriptors: International Education, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Political Influences
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Mäkinen, Sirke – Comparative Education, 2021
Why have regimes and societies that would otherwise argue for their distinctiveness and sovereign decision-making caught 'ranking fever' in HE? Why are they willing to give up their sovereignty in the field of HE, and why do they accept the requirement of homogeneity to succeed in global university rankings? This paradox is explored in the case of…
Descriptors: Reputation, Comparative Education, Decision Making, Higher Education
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Bidyuk, Dmytro – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2018
The article deals with the analysis of professional training of choreography students in European universities. It is indicated that choreography education is a certain system of dancing training, which cultivates students' artistic, physical and technical skills necessary for the dancing profession, as well as develops their special knowledge. It…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Professional Education, Universities, Skill Development
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Pan, Su-Yan – Frontiers of Education in China, 2011
This is a documentary study of education abroad policy in the People's Republic of China (PRC) between 1978 and 2009. By examining the dynamics underpinning the PRC state's efforts to shape the flow of Chinese students and scholars from and into China, this article reveals the major strategies that have enabled education abroad to become a source…
Descriptors: Human Capital, International Relations, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad
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Ohkura, Kentaro; Shibata, Masako – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2009
In this paper, the authors contend that globalization in Japan is the gradual process in which Japan's positioning of "self" within international relations, which had formerly been dominated by the West, has changed. Accordingly, Japan's relationships with the West and the rest of the world, for example, Asia, have also been reviewed and…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Global Approach, Racial Identification, International Relations
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Petersen, Donald E. – Councilor, 1989
Calls for renewed efforts to maintain the U.S. leadership role in the economic world community. Points out the realities of today's world that must be recognized and accepted. Makes recommendations for adjusting U.S. economic philosophy and methods of competing globally. (KO)
Descriptors: Competition, Elementary Secondary Education, Global Approach, Higher Education
Matsuo, Hirofumi, Ed. – 1990
Seven articles are presented addressing topics related to United States-Japan trade, foreign investment, and U.S. competitiveness in the global market. The first article, "Super 301 and the Changing Japan-American Relationship" by Glenn Davis describes recent U.S.-Japan trade frictions, epitomized by Super 301, and explains the influence…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Education, Business Responsibility, Business Skills
US House of Representatives, 2005
The purpose of this field hearing was for the members of the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, to learn more about a variety of programs authorized and funded by Title VI. Continued Federal support for these programs reflects the significance and growing relevance of language and area studies,…
Descriptors: International Studies, Higher Education, National Security, Latin American Culture
Cole, Jonathan R., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This volume contains 19 papers on the current status of the research university particularly in light of diminished federal research support and of the opportunities and perils of the larger, international educational stage. The papers are: (1) "Balancing Acts: Dilemmas of Choice Facing Research Universities" (Jonathan R. Cole); (2)…
Descriptors: College Presidents, College Role, Competition, Diversity (Institutional)