There has been an abundance of research on commercial actors in education. However, there has hardly been any attempt to streamline the existing ways of thinking about their presence and activity in the field of education. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to do a comprehensive literature review on the involvement of commercial actors in…

Based on imprinting theories, we explored how CEOs' academic experience impacts corporate high-quality development. Using data from Chinese listed companies between 2010 and 2019 and the least squares method, we discovered that CEOs' academic experience increased corporate high-quality development by increasing corporate value creation and…

Futures of education are increasingly defined through predictive technologies and methods. We conceptualize 'algorithmic futuring' as the use of data-driven digital methods and predictive infrastructures to anticipate educational futures and animate actions in the present towards their materialization. Specifically, we focus on algorithmic…

Many Filipina care workers are subrogated to the position of mothers in the more affluent states of Asia. As a consequence, they oftentimes play as the unofficial teachers of the children. In this article, I analyse the process of global subrogation, which often end in what I call an inverted odyssey of the Filipina domestic helper. Using the…

In response to neoliberalism, marketisation, and the country's developmental needs, governance of transnational higher education (TNHE) in China is undergoing significant changes. This study investigates the evolving national governance paradigm in TNHE institutions in China. Using a qualitative approach, it analyzes seven pertinent legal…

Every province and territory in Canada has the authority to oversee higher education policies. In recent provincial and federal policy reforms, neoliberalism and academic capitalism have been gaining influence in Canadian higher education. This particularly applies to the policy reform plan "Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs," which…

Over the past two decades, debates surrounding the marketization of higher education worldwide have intensified. The impact it is having specifically on academics and their careers is less well documented, but enough literature has emerged to certainly warrant a review. To investigate the topic, a systematic literature review was conducted to…

Vocational colleges' social role has been under-developed because they have been marketised and privatised, and because the idea of the vocational college has not been advanced and institutionalised. The paper describes this for public vocational colleges in Australia, which are at the vanguard of competency-based education and in being…

The study explores the historical development, cultural significance, and economic potential of Liuzhou River Snail Rice Noodles (LRSRN) as a representation of local wisdom and educational literacy in China. Rooted in the historical, cultural, and natural context of Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, the production process and unique flavor of LRSRN…

The present work aims to understand the forms of expropriation and exploitation of teaching work in the context of the pandemic, focusing on the perspective of working women in the first sector of basic education in the private education system of Rio de Janeiro. It will use an intersecctional approach of gender and class, grounded on marxism and…

Outdoor education in Ireland, as in many countries, takes place in a variety of physical locations ranging from urban to wilder, minimally human influenced environments. Irish public outdoor education providers have traditionally placed little emphasis on cultural understandings of the places where learning occurs. Moreover, outdoor education…

This article aims to examine the impact of neoliberal policies on universities, focusing particularly on the concepts of academic capitalism and academic autonomy, and to conduct a comprehensive discussion to understand how scientific knowledge production has been affected by this process. Since the Bologna Process, universities have adopted a…

How did a network of passionate academics with limited funding but big, comparative, education research ideas lead to an international assessment market? This paper explores the interests, capitals, and power dynamics embedded in the International Large-Scale Assessment (ILSA) market through a network ethnography to understand how the market…

This auto-netnographic study explores the impact of neoliberal ideologies on teacher identity within the context of public education in Spain, with a particular focus on how social networks and media, such as Twitter and Facebook, shape and reflect these dynamics. Combining narrative introspection with thematic analysis of online content, the…

The article presents an analysis of Brazilian teaching work and its different expressions in the face of the neoliberal drive of the last three decades. The aim is to understand how market dynamics consolidate a new materiality through the consequences of neoliberalism on/for teaching work. The analysis is based on a Marxist perspective, through…