The Global Schoolhouse: Governing Singapore’s Knowledge Economy Aspirations

Higher Education Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2011, Pages 255-271

  Sidhu, Ravinder ^a   Ho, Kong Chong ^b   Yeoh, Brenda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Economic Nationalism; Foreign Talent; International Student; Knowledge Enterprise; Transnational Education

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103946867     PISSN: 15710378     EISSN: 22151923     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1500-4_13     Document Type: Chapter

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