scholarly journals Going Beyond the Local: Exploring the Role of Transnational Higher Education in Shaping Students’ Life Trajectories in Uzbekistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Andre Celeti ◽  
Rano Nurmanova ◽  
Nora Gavalyan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Transnational Higher Education ◽  
Life Trajectories

Young People and the Reproduction of Disadvantage through Transnational Higher Education in Hong Kong

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Waters ◽  
Maggi Leung
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Young People ◽  
International Education ◽  
Transnational Higher Education ◽  
Local Equivalent ◽  
Local Patterns ◽  
Local Students ◽  
University Degree

This paper examines the role of transnational higher education in reproducing local patterns of disadvantage in Hong Kong. Specifically, it considers the expectations and experiences of local students undertaking British degree programmes, drawing on the findings of a recent qualitative research project. In this paper, we argue that through the introduction of so-called ‘top-up’ programmes, British universities are providing degree-level education to students unable to access local higher education (HE) in Hong Kong through the ‘traditional’ route. Drawing upon our interviews with students and graduates, we show the immense cultural and social expectations, placed upon young people in Hong Kong, to obtain a university degree, and the role of ‘international’ education in (partially) offsetting the shortfall in domestic university places. However, we also suggest that these students/graduates are in various ways relatively disadvantaged by these degrees - they often have less cultural capital and social capital on which to draw, and find that their degrees are less valued than their local equivalent. There are broader implications of our findings for understanding the role of transnational educational provision in localised reproduction of (dis)advantage, especially in East Asia.

scholarly journals Exploring Labor Market Outcomes at Binational Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Schueller
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Transnational Higher Education ◽  
Career Attainment ◽  
Mixed Methods Case Study ◽  
Key Stakeholders

Transnational education (TNE) is predicted to play a large role in the future landscape of international higher education. Binational universities are transnational, higher education institutions formed by two governments constituting a collaborative form of TNE. Despite career factors being one of the primary motivators for participating in TNE (Knight & McNamara, 2014), we know very little about student expectations and experiences with career attainment at binational universities. This study explored the role of labor market outcomes at the binational Turkish-German University. A convergent parallel mixed methods case study design was adopted, and data collection included a survey of students and graduates (n=571) as well as interviews with key stakeholders (n=4). This research enlarges the debate on the relation between international experience and employability and provides new insight into the labor market relevance and returns of higher education programs.

THE ROLE OF A HIGHER EDUCATION DIPLOMA IN THE PROFESSIONAL CAREER OF THE SPECIALIST IN THE FUTURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 456-466
Author(s):  
Kateryna Kolesnikova ◽  
Dmytro Lukianov ◽  
Tatyana Olekh
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
The Future

FAITH–BASED COMMUNITIES AND POLITICS IN DULLSTROOM-EMNOTWENI: LOCAL STORIES OF IDENTITY

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Landman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Local Municipality ◽  
The Face

A majority of the black community of Dullstroom-Emnotweni in the Mpumalanga highveld in the east of South Africa trace their descent back to the southern Ndebele of the so-called ‘Mapoch Gronden’, who lost their land in the 1880s to become farm workers on their own land. A hundred years later, in 1980, descendants of the ‘Mapoggers’ settled in the newly built ‘township’ of Dullstroom, called Sakhelwe, finding jobs on the railways or as domestic workers. Oral interviews with the inhabitants of Sakhelwe – a name eventually abandoned in favour of Dullstroom- Emnotweni – testify to histories of transition from landowner to farmworker to unskilled labourer. The stories also highlight cultural conflicts between people of Ndebele, Pedi and Swazi descent and the influence of decades of subordination on local identities. Research projects conducted in this and the wider area of the eMakhazeni Local Municipality reveal the struggle to maintain religious, gender and youth identities in the face of competing political interests. Service delivery, higher education, space for women and the role of faith-based organisations in particular seem to be sites of contestation. Churches and their role in development and transformation, where they compete with political parties and state institutions, are the special focus of this study. They attempt to remain free from party politics, but are nevertheless co-opted into contra-culturing the lack of service delivery, poor standards of higher education and inadequate space for women, which are outside their traditional role of sustaining an oppressed community.

CONCEPTUAL BASES OF ADAPTATION OF UKRAINE’S HIGHER EDUCATION TO THE STANDARDS OF EDUCATION QUALITY OF THE EUROPEAN AREA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Batechko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
European Higher Education Area ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
European Area ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
European Standards ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

The article outlines the conceptual framework for adapting Ukrainian higher education to the Standards and Recommendations for Quality Assurance in the European higher education area. The role of the Bologna Declaration in ensuring the quality of higher education in Europe has been explained. The conceptual foundations and the essence of standards and recommendations on quality assurance in the European higher education area have been defined. The Ukrainian realities of the adaptation of higher education of Ukraine to the educational European standards of quality have been characterized.

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