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Early Career Workers Granted Creative Autonomy: Agency Shifts Intern Debate towards Industry Expectations
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Joseph R. Giomboni – Journal of Education and Work, 2024
This research contributes to debates on intern labour, particularly preparing young workers for careers in the culture industries and exploitative experiences that may hinder their success. The purpose of this study is to enrich our understanding of the skillsets required by young practitioners and how creative autonomy can be a fruitful…
Descriptors: College Students, College Graduates, Internship Programs, Public Relations
Regional Disparities in the Allocation of China's Higher Education Resources from the Perspective of Equity
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Wei, Bao – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
This article attempts to analyze the changing circumstances of the regional disparities in the allocation of China's higher educational resources before and after the increase in college enrollments, as well as the mechanisms that have affected these circumstances. The conclusions are that regional disparities in the allocation of China's funding…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, Industrial Structure, Foreign Countries
The Influence of China's Entry into the WTO on Its Education System
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Ding, Xiaohao; Yue, Changjun; Sun, Yuze – European Journal of Education, 2009
The entry of China in the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 holds a number of promises for educational services. The purpose of this article is to explore both the direct and the indirect influence of China's entry into WTO on its education system. The direct influence mainly refers to the increase in the demand for education overseas and in…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Economic Progress, Educational Finance, Industrial Structure
Academic Professionalism in the Managerialist Era: A Study of English Universities
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Kolsaker, Ailsa – Studies in Higher Education, 2008
This article examines the relationship between managerialism and academic professionalism in English universities. Managerialist ideology has introduced to higher education a range of discourses and practices originating in the corporate world. According to much of the existing literature this is leading to feelings of proletarianisation and…
Descriptors: Corporations, Models, College Administration, College Faculty
The Business of Teaching and Learning: An Accounting Perspective
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Ciancanelli, Penny – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2008
A feature of globalisation is encouragement of universities to become more businesslike, including adoption of the type of accounting routines and regulations used by businesses. The question debated in higher education policy research is whether this focus on being businesslike is compatible with the statutory public benefit obligations of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Role, Nonprofit Organizations, Educational Change
Limit Pricing with Incomplete Information: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
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Sorenson, Timothy L. – Journal of Economic Education, 2004
Strategic pricing is an important and exciting topic in industrial organization and the economics of strategy. A wide range of texts use what has become a standard version of the Milgrom and Roberts (1982a) limit-pricing model to convey the essential ideas of strategic pricing under incomplete information. In addition to providing a formal, but…
Descriptors: Game Theory, Models, Economics, Strategic Planning