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Enhancing Cross-Border Higher Education Institution Mobility In The Apec Region, Sarah Richardson Aug 2015

Enhancing Cross-Border Higher Education Institution Mobility In The Apec Region, Sarah Richardson

Dr Sarah Richardson

This report presents findings of a study of the policy context around higher education institution (HEI) mobility in eight APEC economies – China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore and Viet Nam. The report provides insights into different policy contexts gathered from desktop research and from interviews with 68 participants. These all had direct involvement in HEI mobility in the eight economies in the study, including through senior positions in ministries of education, in bodies aligned to ministries, in accreditation and quality assurance agencies, and in foreign and local HEIs. The report identifies regulations, practices, policies, legislative contexts and …


Empowerment Of Excluded Girls In Schooling Exploring Capabilities And Social Justice Change In China, Vilma Seeberg Dec 2014

Empowerment Of Excluded Girls In Schooling Exploring Capabilities And Social Justice Change In China, Vilma Seeberg

Vilma Seeberg

Despite extremely poor odds at the margins of China’s break-neck industrialization and left behind in remote China, village girls have nevertheless been struggling valiantly just to stay in middle and possibly high school. This chapter is informed by more than 10 years of observational studies of 73 daughters of one such village
Arguing that an elaborated framework that focuses the Human Development Capability Approach on empowerment capabilities can explain the choice for schooling under these conditions and can locate drivers of social change, the chapter presents 28 adolescent village girls’ perceptions of their changed gender identities, roles, and life trajectories, …