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Fioreze, Cristina; McCowan, Tristan – Comparative Education, 2018
In recent years, higher education institutions have been encouraged to engage more strongly with their local communities, and address their historically weak links with their surrounding populations. In the latter part of the twentieth century, a number of community universities were established in the South of Brazil, characterised by democratic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Public Colleges, Knowledge Economy
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Hayes, Aneta; Al'Abri, Khalaf Marhoun – Comparative Education, 2019
The paper theorises fragility of regional solidarities in light of the emerging ways in which two Arabian Gulf states, Bahrain and Oman, are undertaking their transition to a knowledge economy. The paper shows ways in which regional symbolic solidarity goals of common economic and educational development in the Gulf region are challenged by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Geographic Regions, Knowledge Economy, Social Change