Emerging education hubs: the case of Singapore

Sidhu, Ravinder; Ho, Kin‐Yip; Yeoh, Brenda S. A.

doi:10.1007/s10734-010-9323-9

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“…Shin (2012) highlighted how education development including graduate education is related to economic development strategy in Korea. Singapore developed a world-class university and doctoral training program that aligned with economic development priorities of the country in terms of knowledge-intensive sectors tied to its industries (Sidhu et al 2011). Hong Kong's doctoral training strategy has only recently become more aligned with regional industry.…”

Section: The Rapid Growth Of Doctoral Enrollmentmentioning

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Challenges for doctoral education in East Asia: a global and comparative perspective

Shin

Postiglione

2018

Asia Pacific Educ. Rev.

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East Asian higher education is experiencing a massive growth in doctoral education with the world-class university initiatives. The growth of doctoral education in the region is remarkable especially as seen in the Chinese system which became positioned as the world's second largest doctoral degree-granting system. Yet, there are growing issues in doctoral education related to system reform, graduate employment in a changing job market, program quality, research funding, and even the identity of doctoral education (professional training vs. training next generation scholars). These are globally emerging issues for policy makers and higher education scholars. This article will encourage academic discussions on the challenges and global trends in doctoral education from the comparative perspective of Anglo-American and European systems.

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Section: The Rapid Growth Of Doctoral Enrollmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges for doctoral education in East Asia: a global and comparative perspective

Shin

Postiglione

2018

Asia Pacific Educ. Rev.

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“…Driven by the internationalisation of teaching and research, education hubs attempt to build a critical mass participants who, thorough interaction and in some cases colocation, engage in education, training, knowledge production, and innovation initiatives (Knight, 2011). Such hubs are becoming particularly of interest in Asia (Knight & Morshidi, 2011;Sidhu, Ho, & Yeoh, 2011) and offer a potential mechanism to reconsider the combination of teaching and research.…”

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Engaging undergraduates with research to promote cumulative learning

Connor¹

2016

IJRSE

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This paper argues that academia is undergoing a crisis, particularly in terms of some institutions experiencing growing student disengagement. Many changes to curriculum design and delivery have been focused on the modularisation of degree programmes to promote greater flexibility for a changing student demographic. This paper suggests that modularisation has the potential to create segmented learning, where students learn particular content in isolation and do not create linkages between knowledge gained across different modules. It is suggested that blurring boundaries between modules can address concerns about segmentalism. It is also suggested that blurring boundaries between other academic structures can also add value, for example the distinction between teaching and research. This paper presents a number of examples of work-in-progress strategies for using the creation of a third space of learning where research is used to generate cumulative learning.

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“…It has become increasingly common to discuss the building of a global education hub in Singapore as being a way to build a platform for innovation, research, development and enterprise that will help shift Singapore's economy from being production-based to knowledge-based (Olds, 2007;Sidhu, Ho, & Yeoh, 2010;Wong, Ho, & Singh, 2007). The concept of a hub is said to imply "spanning boundaries" (Youtie & Shapira, 2008) while the concept of an "education hub" is often used interchangeably with concepts such as innovation hub and knowledge hub (Olds, 2007;Sidhu et al, 2010).…”

Section: Education Hubs As Knowledge or Innovation Hubsmentioning

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“…The concept of a hub is said to imply "spanning boundaries" (Youtie & Shapira, 2008) while the concept of an "education hub" is often used interchangeably with concepts such as innovation hub and knowledge hub (Olds, 2007;Sidhu et al, 2010). In this regard,…”

Section: Education Hubs As Knowledge or Innovation Hubsmentioning

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Managing human capital in world cities: the development of Hong Kong into an education hub

Lai

Maclean

2011

Asia Pacific Journal of Education

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Since 2004, the Hong Kong government has sought to build a regional education hub and develop an education industry. However, the rationales and intentions behind this move and the implications these have for the nurturing of local human capital and economic capacity are not always clear. This article seeks to contextualize Hong Kong's economic development within the global economy. Various related official policy documents are examined to decipher the role of the Hong Kong government and to ascertain how the development of a regional education hub and an education industry features in its plans. It is analysed that up till 2009, the goal of attracting foreign and Mainland human resources and talent, as a way to facilitate the inflow of human capital into Hong Kong, has overridden the goal of a viable and self-sustaining education industry. The article questions whether such a policy orientation is in the best interests of Hong Kong and whether developing Hong Kong into an education hub should be mainly seen as being a way of upgrading and revitalizing local higher education in order to better serve the local economy, which is under pressure to transform into a knowledge-based economy and to develop new growth poles.

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Emerging education hubs: the case of Singapore

Cited by 139 publications

References 24 publications

Challenges for doctoral education in East Asia: a global and comparative perspective

Challenges for doctoral education in East Asia: a global and comparative perspective

Engaging undergraduates with research to promote cumulative learning

Managing human capital in world cities: the development of Hong Kong into an education hub

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