During the US Occupation of Japan (1945-1952), a victorious America attempted to reform Japanese education by replacing Japan's tradition system of values with one that promoted American democratic values. The United States had considered the source of Japan's militarism to lie in the selfless loyalty and love of country that many older Japanese had valued. They wanted to replace these older values with new ones that would ensure a more pacifist outlook. Thus, in the name of democratization and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Democratic Values, Cultural Education, Change...
The branding of national higher education systems is a global trend that has become increasingly common over the last decade. One of the main motives driving this trend is the view that branding a national higher education system will increase that country's market share of international students. This is evident as national higher education systems compete against one another in a high-stakes battle for international students by attempting to differentiate themselves in the marketplace of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Foreign Students, Foreign Policy, Institutional Advancement, Labor...
This study, facilitated by university and college student service professionals, provides the direct views and lived reality of international graduates of our education system. CBIE advocates for improvements in policies and practices vis-à-vis international students and over the years has been successful in working with federal government departments, especially Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), to achieve changes that both make this country a more attractive venue for students from...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Graduate Surveys, Foreign Students, Foreign Policy, Student...
Based on a survey of approximately 40 professionals involved in various disciplines associated with international education across Canada, this study examines Canada's (federal, provincial, and territorial government) offering of scholarships to international students. Focused at the university level, the study elaborates on relevant international scholarship strategies designed to attract and retain international students, or to develop networks of international graduates that will maintain...
Topics: ERIC Archive, International Education, Global Approach, Educational Change, Educational Strategies,...
As of January 2012, more than 850,000 active foreign students were in the United States enrolled at over 10,000 U.S. schools. ICE, within DHS, is responsible for managing SEVP and certifying schools to accept foreign students. GAO was asked to review ICE's fraud prevention and detection procedures for SEVP. This report examines the extent to which ICE has (1) identified and assessed risks in SEVP and 2) developed and implemented policies and procedures to prevent and detect fraud during the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Students, Investigations, National Security, Risk, Certification,...
In late 2010, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Rajiv Shah commissioned a new Agency-wide Education Strategy to ensure that USAID's global education investments would be informed by recent Presidential policy guidance; grounded in the most current evidence-based analysis of educational effectiveness; and aimed at maximizing the impact and sustainability of development results. This 2011-2015 Education Strategy was created to reflect these core principles. This...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Principles, Educational Strategies, Public Agencies, Technical...
The Wingspread Conference Series (2003-2005), "Strategies to Strengthen the Relationship between Higher Education and Society", brought together scholars, institutional and national leaders, community activists, and graduate and undergraduate students to examine the current and evolving relationships between higher education and society. The goals of this annual series included (a) assessing the status of efforts and challenges focused on strengthening American higher education's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Justice, Higher Education, Equal Education, Social Responsibility,...
The purpose of this study is to contribute to the ongoing discussion on Ghana's education reform initiatives in the light of contemporary socioeconomic constraints, and linguistic and diversity issues. The Ghanaian education system today faces inadequate financial resources (for education programs) combined with the continuous unprecedented demand for access, the legacy of colonialism, longstanding economic and social crises as challenges that present a particularly difficult reality for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Financial Support, Educational Finance,...
This annual report of the National Council on Disability (NCD) describes major activities and accomplishments during fiscal year 1996 in its role of advising the President and Congress on issues concerning people with disabilities. The NCD conducted the first-ever National Summit on Disability Policy which gathered 300 people to develop more than 120 comprehensive recommendations for the future of people with disabilities, and released several reports covering a variety of disability policy...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accessibility (for Disabled), Advisory Committees, Advocacy, Change Strategies,...
The volume, a sequel to "Economic Policy and Inflation in the Sixties" presents the diverse opinions of distinguished scholars on developments in the American economy since the institution of direct wage and price controls in August 1971. Gottfried Haberler considers the international aspects of recent United States inflation. William Fellner organizes his discussion of employment goals and overexpansion around manpower problems, acceleration and deceleration, "inflationary...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business Cycles, Change Strategies, Economic Change, Economic Climate, Economic...
Proceedings are presented of a 1977 conference about aspects of international trade negotiations of importance to developing countries. Participants included staff from Washington-based international organizations, various United States departments, Congressional staff, and students of the Foreign Service Institute. Transcripts of three addresses are presented, including comments by two respondents for each paper. The first paper considers special and differential (S&D) treatment measures...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Strategies, Conference Reports, Conflict Resolution, Developed Nations,...
The third document in a series of special papers released by the Project on the Global Economy and Higher Education in New England is presented. The paper examines the causes and manifestations of change toward internationalization at New England colleges and universities and the extent to which change is linked to the coming of the global economy. Information is in two sections as follows: (1) the impact of economic globalization on higher education: the quickening internationalism of higher...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business Education, Change Strategies, Educational Economics, Educational Planning,...
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