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Anne Kovalainen; Seppo Poutanen – Learning, Media and Technology, 2025
The assetisation of education explicates a major shift in how the state understands education. Education is not only an immaterial public good available to everybody but can be treated also as a promotable group of assets. This article discusses the case of a certain period in the Finnish education export. The analysis shows how the Finnish state…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Economy, Politics of Education, Federal Regulation
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Sioux McKenna – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
The multi-billion-dollar university rankings industry purports to offer insights into the quality of institutions, but the extent to which it does so has consistently been refuted. Critics argue that problematic proxies, composite indexing, homogenising effects, and several other issues make them both unscientific and neo-colonial. This article…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Neoliberalism, Academic Rank (Professional), Reputation
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Marulanda-Grisales, Natalia; Vera-Acevedo, Luz Dinora – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
In a knowledge economy, the generation of competitive advantages in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is based on intangible assets of Intellectual Capital (IC) such as quality in teaching, research, innovation, image, reputation and relationship with stakeholders. This knowledge area has aroused the interest of HEIs managers and the…
Descriptors: Competition, Bibliometrics, Knowledge Economy, Higher Education
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Kostrykina, Svetlana; Lee, Kerry; Hope, John – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
The article outlines the making of an explanatory theory for internationalisation of higher education (IoHE) in the emerging global knowledge economy. A grounded theory method with reference to a Theory of Practice is utilised to theorise IoHE in New Zealand. The pivotal features of IoHE are conceptualised as rationality and relationality,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Higher Education, Knowledge Economy
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Garcia-Alvarez-Coque, Jose-Maria; Mas-Verdú, Francisco; Roig-Tierno, Norat – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This paper examines interactions between the presence of top-ranked universities and other conditions that encourage regional competitiveness. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was conducted to assess the combined effect of the conditions. The analysis yields several noteworthy conclusions. First, no single condition is necessary…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Achievement Rating, Competition
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Alisson Slider do Nascimento de Paula – Critical Education, 2023
This research seeks to analyze the logic of Brazilian academic capitalism that conditions a process of commodification of the production of knowledge, as well as the prioritization of the supply of training courses for professionals. This process is characterized as raw material knowledge contributing to the creation of a kind of World Class…
Descriptors: Commercialization, Universities, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics
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Lomer, Sylvie; Papatsiba, Vassiliki; Naidoo, Rajani – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
This article examines national branding of UK higher education, a strategic intent and action to collectively brand UK higher education with the aim to attract prospective international students, using a Bourdieusian approach to understanding promises of capitals. We trace its development between 1999 and 2014 through a sociological study, one of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Knowledge Economy, Competition, Marketing
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Irungu, Wanjiru Ruth; Liu, Xiaoguang; Han, Chuyu; Bomer, Alvin; Wanjiru, Wambui Ann – Higher Education Studies, 2020
The concept of "world-class university" has been there for some time, and everyone wants a world-class university, and no country feels it can do without one. This battle to develop world-class universities lies not only in the gained status but also in the symbolic role of such universities. Universities exist mainly for research and…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Agricultural Education, Reputation, College Role
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Okeke-Uzodike, Obianuju E. – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
The pace of global transformation places a great emphasis on the need for development, with higher education identified as a key agent in the development of a knowledge economy. Higher education systems have been challenged with providing the necessary skilled person-power to complement the changing labour market. Postgraduate supervision is a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Supervision, Graduate Students
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Channa, Abdul Sami; Amin, Farrukh Raza; Liu, Guangqing; Chen, Chang – Higher Education Studies, 2018
Engineering representing the backbone of a nation aims to migrate towards the knowledge economy. The strengthening of engineering education leads to the nation's self-reliance while building indigenous capabilities. The current study attempts to compare engineering education in China with Pakistan, Europe, and the USA in context of One Belt, One…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Economy
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Dembereldorj, Zoljargal – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
This paper discusses the relevant literature on higher education rankings and its impact on higher education institutions across the globe. The literature suggests that global university rankings impact higher education institutions both in advanced economy and developing countries to build competence to race and exist. Universities in an advanced…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Assessment, Classification, Literature Reviews
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Dembereldorj, Zoljargal; Dangaasuren, Garmaa; Jagdag, Davaa – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Universities play an important role in the economic development-knowledge economy. Previous studies proposition that universities significantly contribute to the economic development of the countries. Countries implement policies to efficiently connect higher education and the economy. This study explores the relationships between the university…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Knowledge Economy, Higher Education, College Role
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de Wit, Hans; Altbach, Philip G. – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2021
Internationalization as a concept and strategic agenda is a relatively new, broad, and varied phenomenon in tertiary education. During the past half-century, internationalization has evolved from a marginal activity to a key aspect of the reform agenda. This analysis addresses the following points: What are the historical developments of…
Descriptors: International Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Futures (of Society)
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Novoa, Mauricio – Design and Technology Education, 2018
This article discusses three years' research (2012-2014) on design education towards a 2016 undergraduate industrial design curriculum launch. It contributes a pathway for conservative courses towards design culture transformation and filling gaps between them and leading breakthrough education exemplars. The course proposes a collective knowledge…
Descriptors: Industrial Arts, Design, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
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Sadova, Uliana; Hrynkevych, Olha – International Journal for Business Education, 2016
Education for sustainable business development is an important institution of the integration process of the knowledge economy. This situation also concerns Ukraine, which is currently experiencing particularly difficult times of its state formation. This article investigates the state of the situation in the field of higher education in Ukraine,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainable Development, Knowledge Economy, Economic Change
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