Capital and Knowledge Flows: Global higher education markets
- 1 November 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Asia Pacific Journal of Education
- Vol. 25 (2), 159-174
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02188790500337940
Abstract
Accelerating global flows of people and information have formed new communities and networks across social and political borders. Higher education is one such globalised knowledge community in which new patterns of knowledge, accreditation, research alliances, and social and professional relationships are emerging. In this paper I outline the push–pull dynamics of globalisation in higher education: the co-constitutive nature of local and global interests and educational formations; disjunctive flows of capital, information, people, and knowledge; and the new politics of knowledge capital as they affect academic research and the public archive of scholarly publishing and university libraries. I close with reflections on the differential consequences of globalisation on: the role of the nation state in higher education provision and reform; the role of education in nation building and national identity politics; and the governability of a global eduscape.Keywords
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