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Katja Brogger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the ghosts of Higher Education Reform on the organisational processes surrounding policy borrowing
Globalisation Societies and Education, 2014Co-Authors: Katja BroggerAbstract:The Bologna Process is one of the most extensive examples of policy borrowing processes. Based on qualitative data, this article argues in favour of studying part of this process as ‘global smallness’, centring on the organisational effects of the implementation of a globalised curriculum. Through Derrida's notion on hauntology, Fenwick and Edward's analysis of multiple reals, and Barad's understanding of entanglement and time, this article explores how the implementation processes evoke simultaneously existing worlds of practices propelled by the agency of the past troubling present Higher Education Reform. Finally, this article addresses how ongoing Reforms tend to increase the stretch between ‘what is performed on the outside’ and ‘what is practiced on the inside’.
James P Lassegard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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international student quality and japanese Higher Education Reform
Journal of Studies in International Education, 2006Co-Authors: James P LassegardAbstract:The number of international students in Japan has continued to increase at a rapid pace and has featured very prominently in the so-called internationalization of Higher Education. International students had been expected to become a catalyst for internationalization and university Reform. Recently, however, concern has been raised about the reported decline in the “quality” of international students. This article uses a case study approach to examine the student-quality issue and conducts a review of the closely related problematic Educational environment for international students at Japanese universities. Whereas Educational-quality problems tend to affect all students, they invariably affect international students to a greater extent because of language obstacles and a lack of awareness regarding cultural and Educational differences. The article concludes that for Japanese universities to effectively sustain the current number of international students, particular attention must be given to the improv...
Ye Sun - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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young faculty job perceptions in the midst of chinese Higher Education Reform the case of zhejiang university
Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2013Co-Authors: Ye SunAbstract:Chinese Higher Education is undergoing fundamental changes to meet the demand of producing high quantity and quality college students. These changes have significantly impacted the work lives of Chinese faculty members. This study investigated Chinese young faculty's job perceptions using four variables: intrinsic motivation, job burnout, job satisfaction, and turnover. The findings revealed that surveyed faculties had high intrinsic motivation, relatively high professional efficacy, and low turnover. However, they showed job burnout as indicated by emotional exhaustion and they demonstrated moderate intrinsic satisfaction and low extrinsic satisfaction. The study proposed that a healthy academic environment is needed for sustainable scholarship development.
Paul Doyon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A review of Higher Education Reform in modern Japan
Higher Education, 2001Co-Authors: Paul DoyonAbstract:A number of different parties in Japan have been discussingHigher Educational Reform for over thirty years. Many of theseideas finally started to take form in the 1990s as the Ministryof Education's University Council began implementing many of thepropositions that had been put forth during the deliberations ofthe 1970s and 1980s. As Japan enters the 21st century, its18-year-old population has decreased by over half a million since1992. It will decrease another 300,000 by the year 2010. This has added an increased urgency to make Reforms, especially atthird-tier universities, which are now starting to have troublerecruiting students. Japan's Ministry of Education would alsolike to bring the quality of its university Educational standardsup to par with the rest of the advanced nations. Moreover, industryis demanding a new breed of employee – and one much different thanthe Japanese Educational system has been known to produce. Finally, a new generation of Japanese is starting to reach adulthood, who – raised on consumerism, and material abundance – have acompletely different value system than their parents' generation. This paper looks at the present Higher Education Reform movement and its history extending back approximately thirty years. It then goes on to offer some suggestions as to what more can be done to alleviate many problems still inherent in the system.
Mark A Selzer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the global 30 project and japanese Higher Education Reform an example of a closing in or an opening up
Globalisation Societies and Education, 2010Co-Authors: Chris Burgess, Ian Gibson, Jay Klaphake, Mark A SelzerAbstract:The Global 30 Project, a new Japanese Government initiative that aims to upgrade a number of existing universities to form a select hub of elite universities for receiving and educating international students, has come in for considerable criticism. Using the dual concepts of kokusaika (internationalisation) and gurōbaruka (globalisation), this paper highlights the contradictory goals in a policy that combines a nationalistic ‘closing in’ with a cosmopolitan ‘opening up’. The problems apparent in Japan's most recent attempt to Reform Higher Education are argued to be the latest manifestation of a historical push and pull that can be traced back to the sakoku (closed-country) policy of isolation operated during the Edo period.