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Education and globalization in Europe and East Asia
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The article was published on 1997-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 262 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Orient & Far East.read more
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Globalisation and Education in the Postcolonial World: Towards a conceptual framework
TL;DR: The authors examines the relevance of existing accounts of globalisation and education for low-income, post-colonial countries, with special reference to the education systems of sub-Saharan Africa, using recent developments in globalisation theory, existing accounts are analysed in relation to their view of the origins, nature and future trajectory of globalization and the implications for education.
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The unbearable lightness of skill: the changing meaning of skill in UK policy discourses andsome implications for education and training
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace how the meaning of "skill" has broadened considerably since the 1950s through an examination of the relevant policy literature, and stress the central role of both the Manpower Services Commission (MSC) and Further Education Unit (FEU) in re-defining "skill' in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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Globalization and the political economy of high skills
TL;DR: This article developed a methodology for the comparative study of the political economy of skill formation with a particular focus on policies designed to develop routes to a high skills economy, arguing that the advanced economies face a series of "pressure points" in common which can only be addressed by making a seriesof policy trade-offs.
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Making Higher Education More European through Student Mobility? Revisiting EU Initiatives in the Context of the Bologna Process.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the analysis of student mobility in the EU as a means to stimulate convergence of diverse higher education systems and argue that promoting student mobility was not an act of a limited ambition, but on the contrary, an initiative aiming at the foundation of a system of higher education institutions at a European level.
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The appeal of the International Baccalaureate in Australia's educational market: a curriculum of choice for mobile futures
TL;DR: In Australia there is growing interest in a national curriculum to replace the variety of matriculation credentials managed by State Education departments, ostensibly to address increasing population mobility as discussed by the authors, and the International Baccalaureate (IB) is attracting increasing interest and enrolments in State and private schools in Australia, and has been considered as one possible model for a proposed Australian Certificate of Education.
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The Logic of the Developmental State@@@Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization@@@The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism@@@MITI and the Japanese Miracle@@@Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization
TL;DR: Wade as mentioned in this paper reviewed the debate about industrial policy in East and Southeast Asia and chronicles the changing fortunes of these economies over the 1990s, and extended the original argument to explain the boom of the first half of the decade and the crash of the second, stressing the links between corporations, banks, governments, international capital markets and the International Monetary Fund.
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The Second Industrial Divide
TL;DR: The Second Industrial Divide as discussed by the authors is a history of the economic crisis of the 1980s and its consequences on American social and economic history, with a focus on the second industrial divide, the moments at which choices are made that fix the future course of industrial develop-
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Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization
TL;DR: Amsden as mentioned in this paper showed that South Korea is one of a series of countries (ranging from Taiwan, India, Brazil, and Turkey, to Mexico, and including Japan) to have succeeded through borrowing foreign technology rather than by generating new products or processes.