Stirring the lions: strategy and tactics in global higher education
Title:
Stirring the lions: strategy and tactics in global higher education
Author:
Robertson, Susan L. Keeling, Ruth
Appeared in:
Globalisation societies & education
Paging:
Volume 6 (2008) nr. 3 pages 221-240
Year:
2008
Contents:
In many parts of the world, higher education is viewed as a prime 'motor' for the development of a knowledge-based economy. Under the banner of this 'new economy', higher education policies, programmes and practices have been increasingly co-opted and shaped by wider geo-strategic political and economic interests. This paper explores three, interlinked, higher education policy spaces - in Europe, the United States, and Australia. It explores how the growing range of educational initiatives at the European level has affected - both directly and indirectly - American and Australian policymaking in higher education. The European higher education project, which is increasingly perceived as having some significance to the global economy, has set off a series of dynamic reactions in both Australia and the United States, which is leading to multiple new logics and new imaginaries about the global higher education landscape. Through this, a more integrated and relational global system of higher education is emerging.
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