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This chapter introduces the themes and chapters of Higher Education in Asia-Pacific: Strategic responses to globalization. It begins with the definition of the Asia-Pacific region—the long arc of coastal nations from Southeast Asia to Japan plus the adjoining...
ScopeThis series maps the emergent field of educational futures.It will commission books on the futures of education in relation to the question of globalisation and knowledge economy.It seeks authors who can demonstrate their understanding of discourses of the knowledge and learning economies.It aspires to build a consistent approach to educational futures in terms of traditional methods, including scenario planning and foresight, as well as imaginative narratives, and it will examine examples of futures research in education, pedagogical experiments, new utopian thinking, and educational policy futures with a strong accent on actual policies and examples.
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The New Silk Road strategy and the rise of China in higher education raises the stakes in the engagement between China’s universities and their Western counterparts, including Anglo-American universities. The chapter focuses on the similarities and differences between Sinic and Anglo-American political and educational cultures (state, society, family, individual) and in collectivism and individualism, and the implications for higher education. The state in China is a comprehensive state rather than an Anglo-American limited liberal state. China has greater potential for collective ties, shared goods, and state intervention in higher education. These are long-standing differences. Since 1949, both state power and indigenous individualism have been enhanced in China, while Anglo-American higher education has moved toward a more exclusively individualized approach to outcomes. There is closer convergence between China and Anglo-American in universities than in the configuration of society, suggesting ongoing potential for divergence in higher education.
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The article defines productivity and efficiency in education and analyses their dynamics. Efficiency means spending less while producing the same level of output: it tends to be associated with budget cuts, increased workloads, industrial conflict and reduced long-term productive capacity. Productivity means producing more from the same level of input: productivity goals become more important when the volume and range of outputs are expanding. Productivity improvement comes not from working harder, but from working smarter. Productivity goals provide the best basis for management-worker agreement, and such agreement is essential to productivity policies. The keys to productivity advance are collaborative planning and work organisation, skill utilisation and output-based planning. Educational technologies can also contribute.
In East Asia and Singapore tertiary participation and scientific output are rising very rapidly, underpinned by economic growth, Confucian education values at home and the focused policies of governments determined to catch-up to North American and Western Europe. The leading research universities in China, Hong Kong SAR, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore are on course to join Japan in the front rank of the world's higher education institutions.
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The first sector through which the United States exercises its hold on human mentality across the world is film, media and entertainment. The creative industries in film, TV, music, books and software together generate more export revenue than any other industrial sector in the United States, including agriculture, aircraft and automobiles. Cinema in the United States generates $6.4 in international sales on top of $7 billion in domestic revenues; while shaping the mentalities of people the world over. The American film and television industries have a positive balance of trade with every other nation. That is, the USA exports more film and TV to each other nation than it imports. In almost every nation this ‘positive’ balance (positive that is from the viewpoint of the USA) is overwhelming in both financial and cultural terms.
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The emergence of competency-based training (CBT) reform at the beginning of the 1990s is one of the most important changes in education for many years. CBT is about the modernisation of work and education, and the development of training markets. It is consistent with human capital theory and with an emphasis on educational outcomes, but the origins of CBT reform also lie in the on-going debates about standards, assessment and the role of education in preparation for work. There has long been a conflict between academic and vocational models of the curriculum. CBT offers one solution to (or a reworking of) this conflict. This chapter explores the potential of CBT to change education and education-work relations. But is this change desirable?
'The Handbook constitutes an essential reference source for everyone interested in studying the current meaning, scope and implications of globalization. Strongly recommended.' - Higher Education Review. Higher education has entered centre-stage in the context of the knowledge economy and has been deployed in the search for economic competitiveness and social development. Against this backdrop, this highly illuminating Handbook explores worldwide convergences and divergences in national higher education systems resulting from increased global co-operation and competition.
