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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author MARGINSON, Simon
Title Nation-states, educational traditions and the WCU project / Simon Marginson
Publication year 2013
Source/Footnote In: Institutionalization of world-class university in global competition / Hung Cheol Shin ; Barbara M. Kehm (Ed.). - Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer, 2013. - S. 33 - 44
Inventory number 34812
Keywords Hochschule : Wettbewerb ; Hochschule und Staat : allgemein ; Hochschulreform : allgemein
Abstract The ?World Class University? (Liu et al., Paths to a world-class university. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2011) or ?Global Research University? (Ma, High Educ Policy 21:65?81, 2008) project has common features everywhere: the central role of scientific research; global networks, mobility and engagement; global referencing and branding of the institution within the framework of worldwide comparisons and ranking; and national focus on the role of universities in enhancing innovation. Some work suggests also that there is a plurality of pathways to the WCU (e.g. Salmi, The challenge of establishing world-class universities. The World Bank, Washington, DC, 2009). Arguably, the dynamic Confucian or post-Confucian higher education systems in Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan China and Singapore are shaped by family/education/state relations, different from those of North America and Western Europe. These systems rest on the comprehensive East Asian nation-state and its institutionalization of Confucian learning. Modern higher education, everywhere, is a tool of nation building. In studying variations in the traditions and forms of nation-state, we can better understand the variations in national higher education systems and WCUs. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)
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