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Susan L. Robertson

Researcher at University of Cambridge

Publications -  137
Citations -  5046

Susan L. Robertson is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Higher education & Education policy. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 131 publications receiving 4537 citations. Previous affiliations of Susan L. Robertson include Edith Cowan University & University of Bristol.

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Changing geographies of power in education: the politics of rescaling and its contradictions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline a new geography of power in education, an emerging functional, institutional, and scalar division of the labour of education systems in the global economy.

Globalisation, Education and Development: Ideas, Actors and Dynamics. Researching the issues 68

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a state-of-the-art synthesis of studies relating to globalisation, education and development, focusing on those policies and programs developed at a supranational level (global and regional) that have implications for the formal and informal education and training sectors in enabling these countries to meet the Millennium Development Goals and to alleviate the trend across the globe of deepening poverty and inequality of access to infrastructures and public services.
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Brain drain, brain gain and brain circulation

TL;DR: The term "brain drain" has become an important if not controversial political and economic issue in the United States as discussed by the authors and has been used to refer to immigration to the US since the 1950s.
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Public Private Partnerships in Education: New Actors and Modes of Governance in a Globalizing World

TL;DR: Robertson and Menashy as mentioned in this paper discussed the role of the International Finance Corporation in the promotion of PPPs for educational development and the role and impact of public private partners in education.
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The social condition of higher education: Globalisation and (beyond) regionalisation in Latin America

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the relationship between higher education, globalization and regionalism projects focusing on HE in Latin America and Brazil, arguing that HE has predominantly taken the diverse, yet concerted and co-ordinated routes of globalisation and regionalisation and, by doing so, been profoundly transformed.