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Globalization and Access to Higher Education in Korea

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Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective

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For the past few decades, policies that promote economic development and competition have been favored over those that promote social good and equal opportunity worldwide (St. John, in press). Inspired by neoliberalism and a market mechanism, globalization of higher education in many countries, including South Korea, has mostly been driven by economic rationales rather than addressing broader social consequences. Governments increasingly consider universities as strategic means of facilitating global economic competitiveness (Powers, in press). For example, based on the rationale of economic advancement, national pursuits of building world-class research universities, especially among Asian countries, represent intensifying global competition in higher education across the world.

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  1. Korean Ministry of Education, Science & Technology, Korea

    Jiyun Kim

  2. Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan, United States

    Hee Sun Kim

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  1. State University of New York, Albany, USA

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  2. University of Michigan, USA

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  3. Oxford University, UK

    Maia Chankseliani

  4. Comfacauca University, Colombia

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Kim, J., Kim, H.S. (2013). Globalization and Access to Higher Education in Korea. In: Meyer, HD., John, E.P.S., Chankseliani, M., Uribe, L. (eds) Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-230-3_8

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