Further and Higher Education Markets' Cushions: Portability of Policy and Potential to Pay

Autor/in	Darmanin, Mary
Titel	Further and Higher Education Markets' Cushions: Portability of Policy and Potential to Pay
Quelle	In: International Studies in Sociology of Education, 19 (2009) 3-4, S.175-201 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0962-0214
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Student Recruitment; Information Technology; Knowledge Management; Technological Advancement; Innovation; Strategic Planning; Figurative Language; Governance; Labor Market; Malta + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Informationstechnologie; Wissensmanagement; Technological development; Technologische Entwicklung; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt
Abstract	This article explores the coincidence of global, supranational and local demands on a small EU member state. Pressures to open up an internal and external market in further and higher education (F&HE) derive from outside the local education state, most notably from the "knowledge" economy's competition imperative, from the obligations of EU membership regarding employment and Research and Development and from local demands for labour market growth. Normatively employing neoliberal market discourses, lead actors provide a number of cushions for the market, which include not only disinvestment and commodification, but also (ir)regulation, through the delays in establishing a regulatory framework, leading to a specific spatio-temporal fix. Using the metaphor of a "two-goal cushion", this article asks whether the cushions themselves may not lead to the jeopardy of F&HE goals, especially regarding access, quality and increased Research Development Training and Innovation (RDTi)? Here, the portability of competitive market F&HE policies from the supranational to the local, and from the local ICT training industry to the tertiary education sector, provide evidence not only of "cushions", but also of how F&HE "market" policy is traded between discursive sites and scales. (Contains 65 notes, 1 table and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10