Center-periphery legacies and status anxiety: comparing Higher Education Reforms and Hierarchies in Russia and Ukraine

Conference Theme: Revisioning Education for AllThe Conference abstracts' website is located at http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/cies/cies14/Individual Paper: Session - Reform strategies in building higher educationOBJECTIVES: 1) To compare current challenges in policy contexts, organizational strategies and cultural frames of research universities in Russia and Ukraine shifting from the post-Soviet paradigm of higher education (i.e. centrally controlled, bureaucratic, isolated, indoctrination-focused) to a global higher education paradigm (i.e. open, competitive, market-oriented, multiversity-driven); and 2) To re-conceptualize center-periphery legacies under the lens of emerging knowledge hierarchies and status anxiety in the process of higher education reforms moving universities from local to global levels. MAIN PERSPECTIVE: The center-periphery model of higher education is undergoing major transformations (Altbach 2011; Hayhoe et al. 2011), but the analysis and reconceptualization of its effects in various regions of the world has ...postprin

Professional education and interdisciplinary fields: the role of global 'boundary objects' in the emerging open systems of the post-Soviet academe

Session 32.24. Negotiating the Global, the National and the Local in Higher EducationThe post-Soviet professional education has been stigmatized by a number of legacies to provide an effective support to the emerging interdisciplinary fields. Professions often exist in silos, and professional education can rarely go beyond the norms of the established disciplines and institutional structures. The concept of community outreach is outdated and is based on narrow interests and ignorance of public needs and major societal transformations. Getting meaningful advice from the professions on the routes, priorities and strategies of developing comprehensive approaches for large scale public initiatives is often extremely difficult. The proposed paper examines how international partnerships and global ideas behind them break the walls of mistrust and achieve legitimization of change in the academic environments aspiring to become open systems

The cumulative advantage theory and the world-class university movement

This paper examines the tensions between the concentration and dispersal of academic capital in the process of internationalization of research universities. The study is guided by two theoretical perspectives: Robert Merton's theory of cumulative advantage/disadvantage in science, and Philip Altbach's theoretical viewpoint on the centre-periphery divide in the world class university movement. The tensions between the local and the global, as well as between centralization and decentralization, as they relate to the creation of cumulative advantages in science, are discussed through comparative analysis of research governance systems in Canada, China, Russia and the ...link_to_OA_fulltex

Academic partnerships at the Age of Globalization: anticipated risks and cross-border collaboration

Panel paperPanel 167. International Education and Risk - SIG: Globalization and EducationConference Theme: Ubuntu! Imagining a Humanist Education Globall

University strategies for international academic mobility in Hong Kong

Plenary panel: "Academic Development and Pursuit of Excellence: Hong Kong’s Legacies and Aspirations"Conference Theme: University Traditions: a Resource or a Burden

Global city as a unit of analysis in research on the internationalization of higher education

Session 041. The concept of space in educational research and practiceThe focus of this study is on the area of the internationalization of higher education in the context of global cities. Previous research in the higher education field explained how global flows made universities strategize and commercialize their external relations, and how competition enabled changes but disrupted the continuity of traditional forms of production and livability. The internationalization of research is often perceived in the literature as dependent on funding decisions of governments and organizational strategies of universities. The decline of centralized subsidies and the growth of market instruments however increasingly devolve investment strategies to individual researchers and make them more conscious of their locales and resource-controlling stakeholders. Collaborative initiatives engaging external stakeholders have become important but also more complex. The interdependencies between the contextualization of funding patterns and institutional collaborative behaviors in the internationalization of research are however scantly covered. The role of stakeholder contexts in the internationalization of research remains largely unexplored. This paper defines a framework of a global city as an accumulation of local, national and global flows of resources that create competitive advantages that some universities utilize for their benefit. The proposed research identifies key variables in relations between universities and cities by correlating ranking indexes of world-class universities and global cities and comparing university funding patterns in Toronto, New York, Hong Kong and Beijing.link_to_OA_fulltex

International research partnerships: comparing strategies of flagship universities in Canada, China, and Russia

Session 343. Partnerships in higher educationResearch universities depend on a number of resource providers shaping academic responses to the opportunities of global outreach and collaboration. The literature provides a number of evidences how resource dependence influences decisions of universities about their partnership strategies. The previous research however overlooks the complexity of resource structures in the internationalization of university collaborations. Resources are often interpreted as cash flows. Funding has been widely discussed in the studies of higher education as the roles of the state recede and those of private donors increase. The intangible assets in the development of competitive advantages in the internationalization of research remain however scantly investigated and conceptualized. This paper looks into the roles of human capital, intellectual property, legal frameworks, social perceptions, cultures and collaborative infrastructures to discuss multiple layers of the resource structures in the internationalization of research. It also explores correlations between tangible and intangible assets that universities and governments employ. By comparing partnership strategies embedded in the policy contexts and resource structures of flagship universities in Canada, China and Russia, the study discusses a number of variables that shape institutional responses to globalization.link_to_OA_fulltex

Academic mobility and university competitiveness: comparing patterns at Research Universities in Russia and China

The Conference abstracts' website is located at http://wcces2013.com/abstracts-2/Conference Theme: New Times, New VoicesThematic Group 6. Educational Internationalisation, Academic Voices and Public Policy - Oral Communication - Session Title: TG6 - OC2Academic mobility and brain regain are increasingly strategic tools in building a competitive university in Russia and China. With recent increases in public subsidies for world-class universities, Russian scient…link_to_OA_fulltex

University-industry biomedical partnerships: a multilevel stakeholder management approach

Conference Theme: Engaging the Knowledge Econom