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Lester, Simon – Cato Institute, 2013
Recent developments in higher education--with leading institutions starting to offer courses online--suggest that the Internet is going to disrupt this industry, just as it has already disrupted the music and book industries, as well as many others. We are entering a period of experimentation with new business models for higher education, with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Trade, Competition, Online Courses
Liu, Ning Rong – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
Tsinghua University in Beijing, a leading Chinese university, has emerged as a pioneer in the decentralisation and marketisation of adult and continuing education in China. Recent development at Tsinghua has had a significant influence on the ways in which other universities in China have approached change. The university has decentralised power…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Educational Change, Entrepreneurship
Vlk, Ales; Westerheijden, Don; van der Wende, Marijk – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2008
This paper looks at the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) as an important part of the international trade law system and explores if and how it affects the steering capacity of a nation state regarding higher education. It offers a new conceptual framework to look on the impact of GATS on higher education within its increasingly…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Trade, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Douglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2009
In the United States, developing "human capital" for both economic and social benefit is an idea as old as the nation itself and led to the emergence of world's first mass higher education system. Now most other nations are racing to expand access to universities and colleges and to expand their role in society. Higher education is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Rowland, Willard D., Jr.; Tracey, Michael – 1992
Broadcasting has become a powerful symbol of a collision of ideas over how Western society should be organized. The roots of that clash lay in two powerful forces that seem to have nurtured a certain intellectual bleakness about public culture. The first such force was a belief in the imminent emergence of a multi-channel society in which cable…
Descriptors: Community Education, Cultural Influences, Free Enterprise System, Futures (of Society)
World Bank, Washington, DC. – 1991
This report attempts to show how government and markets can interact most effectively to promote rapid economic development and benefit all people. The world economy is reviewed and an assessment is made of the impact of external factors on development. Alternative scenarios, optimistic and pessimistic, for the 1990s are considered. Four…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Demography, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Lewis, Nicolas – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2005
Export education in New Zealand has grown rapidly since 1990, earning significant foreign exchange and underwriting the finance of domestic education. As principal owner of education institutions, the national state is the primary investor. Previous governments treated the "industry" as both windfall and cash-cow as they advanced the…
Descriptors: Industry, Standard Setting, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
Hua, Shucheng – 2002
The evolution of cadre (political elite and bureaucratic functionaries) education in China from 1949 to the present was evaluated in terms of leadership development and the underlying interests of the Chinese Communist Party as it integrates more fully into the world economy. Historic achievements include: (1) increased knowledge about market…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audits (Verification), Bureaucracy, Centralization