Competing Higher Education Futures in a Globalising World

Autor/in	Lefrere, Paul
Titel	Competing Higher Education Futures in a Globalising World
Quelle	In: European Journal of Education, 42 (2007) 2, S.201-212 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-8211
DOI	10.1111/j.1465-3435.2007.00301.x
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Education Courses; Foreign Students; Higher Education; Competition; Educational Change; Global Approach; Futures (of Society); Educational Trends; Teaching Methods; Curriculum; Educational Policy; Australia; North America + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Fortbildungskurs; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Wettkampf; Bildungsreform; Globales Denken; Future; Society; Zukunft; Bildungsentwicklung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Australien; Nordamerika
Abstract	Globalisation, together with readier access to capability-enhancing technologies and to technological insights once restricted to a few leading economies, are resulting in greater competition within Europe, and more widely within the developed world, for influence of all kinds (not just influence over the choices that foreign students make about the Higher Education courses on offer to them from Europe, but also influence of a more overtly imperialist kind, extending to the policies, incomes and futures of others). This article looks at trends in one important market for European Higher Education, the Middle East (particularly the GCC countries), which has many providers from North America and Australia. As observed by the late Edward Said, the USA is particularly forceful in the Middle East. Its technological superiority is accompanied by fervour to introduce American methods and curricula, and strong belief in their merit, reminiscent of the belief of the old French empire that "France had a "mission civilisatrice", to civilize the natives". The danger, highlighted in a recent UNESCO report "New Ignorances, New Literacies", is that the natives will not be listened to. Is Europe listening more or less than the USA, and is it being listened to? Despite attention-gaining initiatives such as the proposed European Institute of Technology, EIT, and the commitment of EU governments to the Lisbon goals on competitiveness, there are indications of a drop in the influence of European Higher Education institutions in the Middle East. This paper explores the kinds of issues that may be at work, and the implications for European Higher Education policy. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10