This paper argues that higher education has a long history of globalising, though the form of these processes has been different. Two are identified; first, a normative order based on common frameworks; second, the expansion of formal exchanges of inputs and outputs from higher education. Different countries, however, are positioned differently in…

In his article titled "A Quarter Century of Neoliberal Thinking in Education: Misleading Analyses and Failed Policies," Steven J. Klees gives readers a remarkably thorough and extensive critical assessment of the "Great Experiment" in education. He also shows readers that, in the USA as well as in the less developed countries, both the misleading…

The "brain drain/brain gain" debate has been going on for the past 40 years, with irresolvable theoretical disputes and unenforceable policy recommendations that economists commonly ascribe to the lack of reliable empirical data. The recent report of the World Bank, "International migration, remittances and the brain drain", documents the…