Transnational Higher Education Strategies into and out of Singapore: Commodification and Consecration

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Ye
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Asian Students ◽  
Educational Mobility ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
Transnational Higher Education ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
First Case ◽  
City State ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThis article addresses transnational higher education strategies both to and from Singapore. It does so by focusing on outbound educational mobility from Singapore to the UK and inbound educational mobility from Vietnam to Singapore. Since the turn of the century, Singapore has pursued the agenda of developing itself as a regional hub for higher education, aspiring to be a Global Schoolhouse. Yet, while the number of international students grows in local universities, Singapore's academically brightest do not necessarily take advantage of higher educational opportunities within the shores of the city-state, with many traveling to universities overseas through a form of sponsored mobility. Using two case studies, I trace two logics of commodification and consecration as observed through the processes whereby individuals and institutions devise transnational higher education strategies into and out of Singapore. The first case study draws on interviews conducted with Singaporean undergraduates at Oxbridge while the second case focuses on Vietnamese students at two Singaporean universities. Together, the analysis from these cases uncovers the value for these Southeast Asian students in studying abroad and distinguishes between different types of routes that exist: one where students choose their own educational plans and another where students are chosen for a prestigious educational and occupational pathway. With increasing participation in mass higher education taking place across the region, the article outlines, through the site of Singapore, strategies of transnationalism employed by both individuals and institutions as a means of social differentiation.

scholarly journals Mass Higher Education in Russia: Features of Dynamics

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-82
Author(s):  
V. F. Pugach
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Massification Of Higher Education ◽  
Unmet Demand ◽  
The Social ◽  
Soviet Russia

The article considers the massification of higher education in post-Soviet Russia and shows its special aspects against the background of the studentship history in our country from 1917 to 2017. The main cause of the boom in the sphere of higher education at the turn of the century is the social and economic transformation of the society. The emergence of private universities and fee-based education in the public sector of higher education provided opportunities for broad segments of society. The unmet demand for higher education has resulted in an upsurge in the interest to higher education among the society. The similar boom and wave-like dynamics may be traced regarding postgraduate training due to long lasting deficit. The paper presents the results of comparing student body dynamics in universities, postgraduate and doctoral schools and shows the boom synchronicity at the levels of universities and postgraduate schools.

scholarly journals Consuming UK Transnational Higher Education in China: A Bourdieusian Approach to Chinese Students’ Perceptions and Experiences

2020 ◽  
pp. 136078042095704
Author(s):  
Jingran Yu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Transnational Education ◽  
Transnational Higher Education ◽  
Patriotism Education ◽  
Higher Education In China ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Uk Higher Education

Recently, the increased scale and complexity of ‘student-as-consumer’ discourse has become well-established within the intensifying neoliberal marketisation across higher education in the Global North. However, few insights have been generated within a transnational education context. This article is based on a case study of a UK transnational higher education institution in China, where market-based rationalities converge with a centralised statist agenda. It demonstrates that Chinese students’ perceptions and experiences of patriotism education and international education, as well as their own strategy of obtaining a transnational education as an investment, were shaped by the unequal power relations between China and the UK in the global classification of knowledge. They tend to highly value UK higher education in both material and immaterial forms, associating it with ‘humanitarianism’ and disinterestedness. This article concludes that the profit-making agenda of the UK is veiled by its symbolic power, while the nation-building effort of China has driven the students further away. As a result, Chinese students voluntarily participate in the reproduction of symbolic power of UK higher education in the hierarchically structured global field.

Higher-Level Skills in the UK

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-169
Author(s):  
Helen Connor
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Skill Supply ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
The Uk

This article provides an overview of current trends in the supply of higher-level skills in the UK. The author suggests that at higher levels increasing the supply of qualified people is unlikely to be an adequate measure to gain international competitive advantage, and that greater attention needs to given to increasing the quality (in terms of better and more relevant skills) and to stimulating demand for graduates in the wider economy. It is, she argues, difficult to justify expansion of the higher education sector in the absence of evidence of an increased requirement on the part of employers to match any growth in supply. The articles that follow in this ‘Special Focus’ on skills needs discuss specific aspects of the labour market for higher-level skills. Gill Court considers the labour market for graduates in the USA and the lessons for other countries of moving to a mass higher education system; Helen Lawton Smith looks at national laboratories and the effects that recent political decisions have had on their role in skill supply and skill renewal; and finally Gill Court and Nick dagger assess data on the recruitment of non-national staff to research centres, highlighting the extent of the European mobility of scientists and engineers.

scholarly journals A cultural bridge for academic integrity? Mainland Chinese master’s graduates of UK institutions returning to China

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Gow
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Educational History ◽  
Master's Degrees ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Transnational Higher Education ◽  
Career Analysis ◽  
Higher Education In China ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Cultural Bridge

Cultural and developmental perspectives (Flowerdew & Li, 2007) of plagiarism were explored through interviews with Chinese graduates of UK master's degrees after they have returned to work in transnational higher education in China. This allowed reflection on experiences of plagiarism in the context of the participants' educational history, life in the UK and their return to China. These accounts provided narratives of their development of academic integrity and a cultural comparison of the British and Chinese understandings of plagiarism. Interpretive repertoires (Gilbert & Mulkay, 1984) identified the significant commonalities and inconsistencies within and between the participants' accounts. The findings suggest that the participants use UK institutional vocabulary and have developed a more strict approach to plagiarism and academic integrity during their master's course and in their subsequent educational career. Analysis indicates that rather than being equivalents, plagiarism and the corresponding Chinese terms are dependent on the particular assessment backgrounds in the UK and China. Having moved between and adapting to these educational contexts, the potential for these returning Chinese graduates to act as a cultural bridge for academic integrity within internationalised higher education is discussed.

The move to mass higher education in the UK: many questions and some answers

2004 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Mayhew * ◽  
Cécile Deer ◽  
Mehak Dua
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
The Uk

Is Mass Higher Education Working? Evidence from the Labour Market Experiences of Recent Graduates

2004 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 60-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Elias ◽  
Kate Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Occupational Structure ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Employment ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
The Uk

This paper uses a variety of recent sources of information to explore the labour market experiences of those who gained a degree in the 1980s and 1990s. Specifically, we address the issue of ‘overeducation’ — the view that the expansion of higher education in the 1990s created a situation in which increasing numbers of graduates were unable to access employment that required and valued graduate skills and knowledge. Two complementary approaches to this issue are adopted. We review available evidence on the graduate earnings premium and change in the UK occupational structure, and we conduct a detailed examination of the earnings and characteristics of jobs done by a large sample of 1995 graduates seven years after graduation.We conclude that, while there may have been a decline from the high premium enjoyed by older graduates, for those who graduated in 1995 the average premium was holding up well, despite the expansion. Although we found differences between established graduate occupations and the newer areas of graduate employment, our evidence suggests that the development of new technical and managerial specialisms and occupational restructuring within organisations has been commensurate with the availability of an increased supply of highly qualified people.

scholarly journals The Tuition Dilemma and the Politics of "Mass" Higher Education

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-81
Author(s):  
Richard Wellen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
Policy Model ◽  
Institutional Goals ◽  
The Uk

The prospect of tuition fee increases for public sector universities has attracted an enormous amount of attention in recent years as governments in all industrialized countries have responded to the converging pressures of increased demands for higher education and rising costs of competing areas of social spending. I show that this dilemma is fast approaching a critical point in both Canada and the UK. As contemporary society become "knowledge societies," postsecondary systems become "complex," requiring a sensitive political blending of different institutional goals, such as accessibility, diversity of mission, critical thought, relevance, and social usefulness. This article draws upon the policy model of income contingent repayment (ICR) as a touchstone for debates and larger proposals about addressing the future of higher education reform. My hope is to show the partial shortcomings of the traditional alternatives: reliance on state-provided subsidy on the one hand and deregulated and flexible fees on the other. I then argue that changes in the social and political meaning of participation in higher education might warrant taking a second look at the "smart funding" approach represented by ICR proposals.

Higher Education in Scotland and the UK

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-132
Author(s):  
Michael Russell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The Uk
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