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Le, Hang; Edwards, D. Brent, Jr. – Comparative Education, 2023
Since the 1990s, Singapore has firmly established its reputation in the global education policy space as one of the best education systems in the world. However, existing policy transfer literature on Singapore has been mainly interested in Singapore as a decontextualised, ahistorical case, rather than as a unique player in the global education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Reputation, Educational Policy
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Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Bylsma, Paul E.; Singai, Chetan – Comparative Education, 2022
Global university rankings (GURs) have garnered increasing media attention since their inception. Yet to date, a concerted attempt to offer an affect lens -- emotions, responses, reactions and feelings that are relational and transpersonal -- underlying the mediatisation of GURs remains absent. Drawing on affect theories, we analysed the Indian…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Reputation
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Yoko Mochizuki; Edward Vickers – Comparative Education, 2024
UNESCO's relatively high prestige across East Asia has spurred intensifying efforts by governments to use its imprimatur to legitimate official narratives of the past and visions of the future. This article focuses on China's use of UNESCO as an arena for competitive national 'branding' in the education field, especially relating to STEM and AI.…
Descriptors: International Education, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Political Influences
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Mäkinen, Sirke – Comparative Education, 2021
Why have regimes and societies that would otherwise argue for their distinctiveness and sovereign decision-making caught 'ranking fever' in HE? Why are they willing to give up their sovereignty in the field of HE, and why do they accept the requirement of homogeneity to succeed in global university rankings? This paradox is explored in the case of…
Descriptors: Reputation, Comparative Education, Decision Making, Higher Education
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Kumar, Prem – Comparative Education, 2013
In Asia, we are witnessing an era where the pendulum of power is swaying towards the East with the rising economic strength of China and India. Singapore is at the "crossroads" between the East and West of these most populous nations on earth. Although Singapore may appear the most Westernised country in Asia, she is nevertheless a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Economic Progress, Cultural Pluralism
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Lo, William Yat Wai – Comparative Education, 2011
The purpose of this article is to analyse the nature of the global hegemonies in higher education. While anti-colonial thinkers describe the dominance of the Western paradigm as an oppression of indigenous culture and knowledge and as neo-colonialism in higher education, their arguments lead to such questions as how much self-determination do…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Global Approach, Higher Education