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Vingaard Johansen, Ulrik; Knudsen, Frederik B.; Engelbrecht Kristoffersen, Christian; Stellfeld Rasmussen, Joakim; Saaby Steffen, Emil; Sund, Kristian J. – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
The literature on higher education policy points to changes in the dominant discourse over the years. In particular, the ascendance of a discourse marked by concepts of new public management, using language inspired by neoclassical economic theory which characterizes education as a marketplace where students are customers, has led scholars to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Discourse Analysis
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Marginson, Simon – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
The public/private distinction is central to higher education but there is no consensus on "public." In neo-classical economic theory, Samuelson distinguishes non-market goods (public) that cannot be produced for profit, from market-based activity (private). This provides a basis for identifying the minimum necessary public expenditure,…
Descriptors: Synthesis, Higher Education, Public Education, Private Education
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Zinkina, Julia; Korotayev, Andrey – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2014
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the structure of the international migration system has remained stable through the recent turbulent changes in the world system. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology draws on the social network analysis framework--but with some noteworthy limitations stipulated by the specifics of…
Descriptors: Immigration, Evidence, Social Change, Social Networks
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Brissett, Nigel O. M. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
The rate of emigration of highly educated people from the Caribbean is one of the highest in the world but little research exists on this phenomenon. This paper helps to fill this gap by focusing on one particular subset of Caribbean skilled emigrants, those working in higher education in the US, including academics and administrators. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Skilled Workers, Foreign Countries
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Ambrose, Don – Roeper Review, 2008
Utopian thinking has captured the human imagination for millennia and has exerted strong influences on societies--in particular, on their socioeconomic, political, and cultural dimensions of societies. Consequently, enhancement of global awareness requires attention to utopian frameworks, especially when those frameworks are influencing the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Gifted, Global Approach, Ideology
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Chen, Edward K. Y. – Journal of Economic Education, 2005
The author has chosen three major topics in development economics for a discussion on how to teach the subject: the concepts and measurement of development, models of growth and development, and the international aspects of economic development. For the concepts of development, it is important to emphasize the coherence of the topics to be…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Progress, Models, Global Approach