Imagining <i>Alternativas</i> to Global, Corporate, New Economy Academic Capitalism

Rhoades, Gary; Maldonado‐Maldonado, Alma; Ordorika, Imanol; Velazquez, Martín

doi:10.2304/pfie.2004.2.2.7

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“…Meanwhile, the annual budget for federal universities dropped by 24% between 1995 and 2002, with a 70% drop in investment in infrastructure in the same period. It is not that the State is unable to fund an expansion in the public sector, but that successive governments have made a conscious decision to channel investment into the private sector -a phenomenon that has been seen across Latin America (Rhoades et al 2004).…”

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“…Studies on Latin America (e.g. Levy 1986;Torres and Schugurensky 2002;Rhoades et al 2004) have shown how in recent decades the countries have moved from small, elite public systems to diversified systems in which private institutions play a fundamental role. Some of these institutions cater for wealthy elites, but a growing number target lower-income students who are unable to enter the selective public universities.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Expansion without equity: An analysis of current policy on access to higher education in Brazil

McCowan

2007

High Educ

128

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Access to higher education in Brazil is to a large extent restricted to the higher socio-economic groups. Public universities have limited places and entry is determined by highly competitive exams, thereby excluding those who have not had a high quality secondary education or attended an expensive preparatory course. There has been considerable growth in the private sector to absorb the excess demand, but the majority of Brazilians cannot afford the fees. This paper develops a concept of equity in higher education in which, firstly, there should be sufficient places in the system as a whole and, secondly, all people should have a fair opportunity of attending the university of their choice regardless of socio-economic background. Recent efforts to expand access are analysed, including incentives for the growth of private universities, student loans and the new Prouni initiative, in which private institutions provide free places to low-income students in return for tax exemptions. While these initiatives have the potential to increase the total number of places, they will not lead to an equitable expansion, as disadvantaged students will still be confined to courses of lower quality or with lower subsequent value on the employment market. Initiatives aimed at the public sector such as the introduction of quotas and changes to entry examinations are also discussed. Finally, some implications for future policy development are outlined.

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Expansion without equity: An analysis of current policy on access to higher education in Brazil

McCowan

2007

High Educ

128

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“…Reforms should not mimic market-oriented business, as counselled by advocates of the now compromised 'Washington Consensus'. Instead, stakeholders must look to the social relations within the organization and consider those changes that would make it possible to forge substantively value rational links between the allocation of financial resources and the aims agreed by stakeholders (Lauter 2002;Rhoades et al 2004;Scott 2002).…”

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“…business) cost accounting systems and proper capital (accrual) accounting (see Ciancanelli 2008a). 17 The obvious danger with such proposals is they may provoke efforts to change nonprofit financial management to fit the accounting that is imported rather than innovate a kind of accounting that is compatible with non-pecuniary value rationalities that ought to govern resource allocation in nonprofit organizations (Peters 2004;Rhoades et al 2004). …”

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Managing for Social Outcomes: Diverse Value Rationalities and Financial Control

Ciancanelli

2010

Critical Sociology

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This article evaluates the use of monetary accounting and other financial management tools in the governance of nonprofit organizations. Drawing on Weber's insights on monetary accounting, the article elaborates structural differences in the financial management of nonprofit and business organizations. The article demonstrates that the accounting and budgeting technologies used by business cannot offer substantively rational guidance to managers of nonprofit organizations. It is argued that managing for social outcomes requires nonprofits to experiment with organizational structures and processes that promote coherence between the diverse value rationalities which underpin their service aims and the allocation of the unit's financial resources.

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“…(Rammell, 2006). They offer few explicit examples of the differences in perspectives suggested by the first part of the title: 'Competing Higher Education Futures' and represented by the work of Futurists (Miller, 2007;Milojevic, 2005;Rhoades et al, 2004;Slaughter, 1999;Vincent-Lancrin, 2004). To illustrate, Vincent-Lancrin identifies six Futurist scenarios, each of which could be pursued by at least one university in a country, competing with efforts of other universities promoting other scenarios:…”

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Competing Higher Education Futures in a Globalising World

Lefrère

2007

Euro J of Education

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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.

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Imagining Alternativas to Global, Corporate, New Economy Academic Capitalism

Cited by 25 publications

References 9 publications

Expansion without equity: An analysis of current policy on access to higher education in Brazil

Expansion without equity: An analysis of current policy on access to higher education in Brazil

Managing for Social Outcomes: Diverse Value Rationalities and Financial Control

Competing Higher Education Futures in a Globalising World

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