The academic world is more global than ever: competition for talents, international mobility both of students and faculty, diversification of funding are some of the main features of this changing environment faced by universities. International rankings are blooming and contribute — despite their obvious limitations — to globalization as well …
Building Singapore’s University Education System in a Globalized World
Singapore is a small young nation with a relatively short history, becoming independent only in 1965. Over the last 42 years, Singapore has moved from third world to first world and built a modern economy with a per-capita income second in Asia only to that of Japan. This paper will …