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Kun Dai; Charlene Tan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
This paper focuses on educational equity in China using the experience of school choice reform in Shanghai. The education authority in Shanghai has launched a host of policy measures to address "school choice fever" (zexiao re) where parents compete to enrol their children in a top-performing school. The policy initiative has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, School Choice, Educational Change
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Perloff, Andrew – Education Next, 2022
For decades, college athletes have been barred from using their name, image, and likeness (NIL) to earn money through the sort of lucrative endorsement deals that professional athletes commonly sign. The ban by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which sets the rules for college sports, was intended to reflect students' official…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Reputation, Competition, Intercollegiate Cooperation
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Michael D. Smith; Bradley D. F. Colpitts – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
Through the market-based conception of neoliberal performativity, an interlocking set of socio-economic agendas integrate higher education (HE) in state-level systems of production and accumulation. Within the scope of globalism, the capacity to develop competitive human capital emerges as a proxy indicator of achievement amongst institutions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Philosophy, Social Systems
Blair, Peter Q.; Smetters, Kent – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
While college enrollment has more-than doubled since 1970, elite colleges have barely increased supply, instead reducing admit rates. We show that straightforward reasons cannot explain this behavior. We propose a model where colleges compete on prestige, measured using relative selectivity or relative admit rates. A key comparative static of the…
Descriptors: Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends, Competition, Reputation
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Lewis, Nick; Robertson, Susan; Lim, Miguel Antonio; Komljenovic, Janja; Muellerleile, Chris; Shore, Cris; Bajenova, Tatyana – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2022
This collection of short essays presents and examines six vignettes of organisational change in British, New Zealand and European universities. Drawing on the social studies of economisation literature, formal research projects and auto-ethnographic insights, the authors detail profound changes in how knowledge is produced in universities. They…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Educational Policy, Institutional Mission
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Pang, Nicholas Sun-Keung – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2023
Global competition results in an overall demand for higher skills. In the competitive world, China has no choice but to adjust themselves to become more efficient, productive, and flexible. Higher education in China has played a key role in achieving socialist economy and modernization. Since the open-door policy in the 1980s, there has been a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Strategic Planning, Competition
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Scott, Timothy – International Education Studies, 2021
Numerous UK universities are experiencing financial instability; with an increasingly competitive and maturing market, reliance has grown on international students to offset institutional shortfalls. Dependency on international student tuition revenue has over-exposed the market to dramatic shifts in political policies, both domestic and…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Financial Support, Universities, Competition
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Ryan, Sean A. – Texas Education Review, 2018
Efforts to prevent or persuade increased emphasis on academic research at state colleges and regional universities demonstrate how emerging fields of higher education can be influenced through various policies and incentives. Utilizing the concept of strategic action fields (Fligstein & McAdam, 2012), this paper explains changes in…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, State Policy, Research Universities, Institutional Mission
Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning, 2022
The Mississippi Public Universities "Research Catalog" is mandated by the State through the University Research Center Act of 1988 (§ 37-141-17). The publication lists the funding amounts by the sources of funding and by the university disciplines receiving the funding. It is designed for use by state policy makers, the educational…
Descriptors: State Universities, School Catalogs, State Legislation, Financial Support
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Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Grimm, Adam T. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
Methodological nationalism (MN) pervades higher education scholarship and practice, particularly in the arena of globalisation of higher education (HE) (Shahjahan and Kezar 2013). MN refers to the assumption that national boundaries define the natural category or unit of analysis for society. Drawing on affect theories, this conceptual article…
Descriptors: Correlation, Nationalism, Global Approach, Higher Education
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Hsueh, Chia-Ming – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2018
Internationalization in higher education has become increasingly relevant over the past two decades, not only in traditional areas like North America and Europe, but also in emerging regions such as Asia and the rest of the world. The expansion of the global higher education mobility is obvious, with over 4.6 million students seeking education…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Competition, Reputation, Foreign Students
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Huang, Zhongjing; Chen, HuanChun – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
The major aim of recent school education reform in China is to improve educational equity and quality. This paper aims to explore a collaborative reform in a school district in Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province. The major focus of the reform has been a change of school management from "government" to "governance," which is a shift…
Descriptors: Governance, Government School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Equal Education
Lee, Lung-Sheng – Online Submission, 2022
The colleges and universities in Taiwan are confronted with the following two problems: (1) The average youth (aged 15-29) unemployment rate is more than double the overall unemployment rate; and (2) Mainly affected by the low birth rate, the admission and vacancy rates of colleges and universities have increased, and fierce competition exists…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Competition, Universities, Employment Opportunities
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Walsh, Joseph A. – American Biology Teacher, 2014
A look back at some famous discoveries in biology highlights the competitive nature of science, the trophy being priority by publication.
Descriptors: Biology, Competition, Discovery Processes, Publications
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Gray, Gregory C.; Borkenhagen, Laura K.; Sung, Nancy S.; Tang, Shenglan – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
China now tops the list of countries with the largest annual number of scientific publications. At the same time, China also leads the list of countries with the highest proportion of scientific publication retractions. The rise in this academic misconduct in China has given Chinese researchers a bad reputation and likely led to lower manuscript…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Universities, Foreign Countries, Cheating
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