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Changing higher education landscapes - implications for South Africa

Baumert, Stefanie - In: International Journal of Public Policy 8 (2012) 4/5/6, pp. 281-294

In changing societal contexts, systems and institutions of higher education are in need of reorientation. In this … article, it is argued that part of the search for reorientation in the South African higher education system is confronted by … trends in higher education (such as the reference to processes of globalisation and the knowledge society) and their …

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Intellectual flexibility, innovative partnerships and collaborations in the African university of the 21st century: policy challenges and way forward

Simala, Kenneth Inyani - In: International Journal of Public Policy 8 (2012) 4/5/6, pp. 214-229

Policy challenges facing African universities are well documented and relate to such issues as curricula, governance, funding, roles and expectations. To meet these challenges calls for radical and strategic changes that will impact on the overall policy and practice of universities as presently...

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Global best practices, national innovation systems, and tertiary education: a critique of the World Bank's Accelerating Catch-up (2009)

Keating, Michael F. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 8 (2012) 4/5/6, pp. 251-265

The World Bank's 2009 publication Accelerating Catch-up: Tertiary Education for Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa outlines … tertiary education reforms designed to promote knowledge economies. In this document, the World Bank recognises that reforming … the tertiary education sector in sub-Saharan Africa necessitates enhanced state functions in terms of governance …

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Institutions and the sources of innovation: the determinants and effects of international R%D collaboration

Shapiro, Matthew A.; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 8 (2012) 4/5/6, pp. 230-250

This paper examines the phenomenon of international R%D collaboration in the form of cross-national patenting. Using a unique dataset on patents from the USPTO for a maximum of 125 countries over the period 1975-2005, we show that, despite the potential for technological advancement arising from...

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Migration of health workers and health of international migrants: framework for bridging some knowledge disjoints between brain drain and brawn drain

Khadria, Binod - In: International Journal of Public Policy 8 (2012) 4/5/6, pp. 266-280

A paradox in knowledge management paradigms is posed: that leading to a dichotomy between factor-endowment and factor-use in the health sector of any given country. While investment in acquiring health knowledge embodied in overseas health workers from other countries could lead to better health...

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Internationalisation of higher education in Africa: introducing credit accumulation and transfer system

Adamu, Abebaw Yirga - In: International Journal of Public Policy 8 (2012) 4/5/6, pp. 199-213

Internationalisation of higher education calls for both intra- and inter-regional academic collaboration. Recently …, there have been several internationalisation initiatives in Africa, including an increasing focus on higher education … collaboration at a regional level. One of the major problems in the process of internationalisation of higher education in Africa is …

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Irish public assets: establishment, control and privatisation of state-owned enterprises

Jackson, John - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 1, pp. 74-85

This article reviews the establishment and use of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Ireland. It notes the many difficulties experienced in obtaining a precise view of the composition of the Irish public sector and comments on ambivalent (and therefore often destructive) attitudes to the control...

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The 'externalisation' of local public service delivery: experience in Italy and Sweden

Argento, Daniela; Grossi, Giuseppe; Tagesson, Torbjorn; … - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 1, pp. 41-56

In recent years, the local government sector in European countries has undergone important changes involving, among other things, the externalisation of local public service provision through various forms of corporatisation, public-public collaboration, public-private partnerships and...

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Turnaround of the Indian Railways: a public ownership saga

Gupta, Desh; Sathye, Milind - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 1, pp. 86-102

The reported turnaround of the Indian Railways (IR) has attracted wide notice. This article locates the enterprise within the broader Indian public sector and explores the factors that led to the turnaround from a low performing organisation to a high performing one. The case study method is...

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From 'entrepreneurial state' to 'state of entrepreneurs': ownership implications of the transformation in Mexican governance since 1982

Vargas-Hernandez, Jose G. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 1, pp. 57-73

This article recognises that the Mexican financial crisis of 1982 marked a turning point in the country's development. The crisis followed a period of steady economic growth. Since then, the entrepreneurial state has been under steady attack by members of a new business elite, who are direct...

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