Higher education scholarships as a soft power tool: an analysis of its role in the EU and Singapore. EU Centre Singapore Working Paper No. 23, March 2015

The European Union and Singapore are vastly different entities, each with its own regional and global priorities and policies. Both actors employ a range of tools and instruments to aid in their foreign policy objectives, including in the projection of their soft power. It is worth analysing and comparing the specific instruments of these two actors’ soft power strategies, including but not limited to their stated objectives and perceived effectiveness. This paper will compare the role of higher education and scholarships in diffusing soft power through a comparative case study of the Erasmus Mundus scholarship program and the Singapore Scholarship administered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will look at the ways in which these programs have shaped the standing of the actors in diffusing their norms and objectives in the regional and international arena. A comparative analysis of these programs will hopefully provide some insight into the proximity between foreign policy-making and higher education internationalisation. This paper will begin with an overview of the aforementioned programs and related schemes, before dissecting and comparing the intent and the policy-making processes behind these, and concludes with a discussion on the present and future role of higher education as a strategic soft power tool.

Report of the Committee on Higher Education in Wyoming to President G.D. Humphrey and members of the Board of Trustees of the University of Wyoming.

Cover title: Higher education in Wyoming.

Allocation of the Governor's ... higher education budget : operations and grants.

Description based on: 1978/79.

Annual report on the fiscal impact of the Programs and Services related to the Higher Education Veterans Service Act /

Public Act 96-133, the Higher Education Veterans Service Act requires the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) to compile annually from Illinois' community colleges and public universities information on the fiscal impact of the programs and services related to the requirements of the Higher Education Veterans Service Act (the Act).

Statistical report of Fall 1981 : minority and female employment in higher education, part I. /

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Statistical report of minority and female employment in higher education /

"Item #11B."

Statistical report of female and minority employment in higher education : fall 1983 and trend data for 1975-1983 /

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Summary of fiscal year ... appropriations for higher education operations and grants : General Assembly action.

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Summary of fiscal year ... appropriations for higher education capital improvement projects : Senate/House action.

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Summary of fiscal year ... appropriations for higher education operations and grants, senate action.

At head of title <85th- > General Assembly.

Summary of fiscal year ... appropriations for higher education operations and grants, governor's action.

At head of title: ... General Assembly.

Summary of fiscal year ... appropriations for higher education capital improvement projects : General Assembly action.

Description based on: 1988; title from cover.

The Suitability of tax-exempt tuition investment plans for Illinois higher education /

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How does globalisation interact with higher education? The continuing lack of consensus:The continuing lack of consensus

This essay attempts to ascertain whether a particular meaning of globalisation, and view on its effects and the appropriate response to it, are becoming standardised across academia. To do so, it content-analyses a representative sample of new scholarship, mapping the various approaches of current researchers towards globalisation. The essay shows how globalisation remains a contested concept within studies of higher education, as in many other fields. Rather than globalisation being taken to refer unambiguously to global flows, pressures or trends, its meaning continues to depend on the particular perspective adopted by contemporary researchers. The same conflict is apparent concerning the impacts which are reputed to globalisation and with regard to the appropriate response to globalisation amongst academics and higher education institutions (HEIs) more generally. Perhaps the only apparent point of consensus amongst contemporary researchers is the claim that globalisation affects HEIs, rather than HEIs themselves being implicated in the promotion of globalisation. This position underplays the often important role of HEIs in encouraging cross-border flows and pressures, and global trends such as marketisation.

The British higher education funding debate: the perils of 'talking economics'

This article examines current debates surrounding British higher education funding from a political economy perspective, drawing on ‘positive’ and ‘institutionalist’ political economy. Adopting the lens of political economy enables a critical assessment of the use of terms drawn from economics by many higher education decision-makers. Current discussions embody particular assumptions about the nature of producers and consumers in higher education, the relationship between supply and demand, and the role of information in the higher education ‘market’. They also frequently fail to acknowledge the active rather than passive role of higher education institutions in shaping policy discussions surrounding higher education funding.