Globalization and the Internationalization of Graduate Education: A Macro and Micro View
Since the 1990s, globalization has become a central phenomenon for all of society, including graduate education and particularly doctoral education. Globalization takes place in a context where doctoral education and research capacity are unevenly distributed and where a few research universities, m...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Canadian journal of higher education (1975) 2010-01, Vol.40 (1), p.1-12 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Since the 1990s, globalization has become a central phenomenon for all of society, including graduate education and particularly doctoral education. Globalization takes place in a context where doctoral education and research capacity are unevenly distributed and where a few research universities, mainly in wealthy countries, have become powerful social institutions. But all graduate education systems are increasingly part of an international context in which policy-makers — at every level — are aware of and responding to developments in higher education outside their national borders. For the fi rst time, conditions exist for the emergence of a truly international system of doctoral education; this openness to innovation and expansion holds enormous potential for advancing a more effective future-oriented PhD. |
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ISSN: | 0316-1218 2293-6602 |
DOI: | 10.47678/cjhe.v40i1.1566 |