What are the outcomes of higher education? A cross-cultural dialogue between the Anglo-American and Chinese worlds
- Simon Marginson, University of Oxford
- Lili Yang, University of Hong Kong
- Ruth Hayhoe, University of Toronto
- Xin Xu, University of Oxford
- Rui Yang, The University of Hong Kong
- CHAIR: Susan Robertson, University of Cambridge
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What are the outcomes of higher education and how are these understood? These are ongoing questions for governments, scholar-researchers and those who work in the sector or use it. But the answers can vary across contexts. In this webinar Simon Marginson and Lili Yang approach the question by comparing the ‘public good’ outcomes of higher education through both Anglo-American and Chinese lenses. They review the scholarly discourses of society, state and higher education in both traditions, including individualism and collectivism, university autonomy, the critical function, higher education in civil society, and global tianxia and global common good. The two traditions are very different, but there is potential for agreement in most – though not all – areas. The webinar follows a symposium on these issues in a Special Issue of Globalisation, Societies and Education, edited by Susan Robertson, which consisted of one keynote paper by Marginson and Yang and six commentaries. Three of the commentators, Ruth Hayhoe, Xin Xu, and Rui Yang, join the webinar.
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Ruth Hayhoe is a professor at the University of Toronto. She served as Cultural Secretary in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing (1989-1991), and Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, now the Education University of Hong Kong (1997-2002). Recent books include China Through the Lens of Comparative Education (2015), Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation (2016) and Religion and Education (2018).
Xin Xu is a Research Fellow at CGHE, Department of Education, and a Junior Research Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford.
Rui Yang is Professor and Associate Dean Research at the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong. His research interests are in international education, higher education, and educational policy. His publications span a wide range of subjects on higher education in China, including comparative studies of Western and Eastern education, cross-cultural analysis of educational issues, the globalization of education, and education reforms.
Susan L. Robertson is Head of Faculty and Professor of Sociology of Education, at the University of Cambridge. She has a long standing interest in the political economy of the state, state transformation, and the role of the politics of education in this. Susan has made original contributions to the spatialising of the sociology of education, to help understand processes like region building, and the development of global education policy. Her books include Public Private Partnerships in Education, and Global Regionalisms and Higher Education. She is founding editor of Globalisation, Societies and Education.
