Education in the New Powerhouse Economies: Catching Up or Leading the Way?

Higher education has a vast history; beginning in the early colonial period and spanning ten generations. With its wide range of history, aspects of higher education have changed as the ideals and reforms of society adjusted. Albeit, the missions and purposes of college have remained the same. In this paper, I will clarify the three main missions and purposes of higher education. Then, I will shift the focus of the paper to the area I would like to pursue in higher education and how it reflects those purposes.

Fareed Zakaria, author of “In Defense of a Liberal Education,” characterizes India as a technology-focused and economically driven country that values the idea of a liberal education about as much as someone values a fork when soup is for dinner. India is portrayed as a place that only cares about STEM related fields, stifling curiosity and denouncing the idea of learning for learning’s sake. When India and the United States are compared in “In Defence of a Liberal Education,” India comes across as uptight and old-fashioned while the United States is seen as a place of intellectual freedom. Zakaria maintains this view of India throughout the book, using his parents (his father is a lawyer and his mother is a journalist) to show there are exceptions to the rule.

Filmmaker and documentarian Andrew Rossi has restated the hot-button issue nowadays through his movie, Ivory Tower. After watching his documentary, I have learnt about the realistic possibilities of becoming debtors of students after colleges. Consequently, a large range of students has stood up to demonstrate this idea. He offered the remarkable experience of Cooper Union as a case in point. The fact that the tuition fee of post-secondary institutions within 30 years rises rapidly up to 1120% startles everybody. This exploding statistic, however, is led by the intension between colleges to expand its facilities and programs. Also, the movie informs its audience

The critical challenge within in today’s society is that college tuition should be free or if not free, more affordable for all students. Certainly, higher education should not be considered a luxury where only the wealthy could afford, but an opportunity for all caste systems. It must be an accessible and affordable opportunity for all students in order for them to invest in their education. Higher education is important because it provides more careers to choose from than the careers offered without having a college degree. Ultimately, the issue here is whether it is right to make college tuition more affordable for the students.

Education is one of the most important things you can have in this world. Some people don’t have it, but those who do, choose how they want to use it. Some countries push their students to various limits, plus they set various standards for their students.While some can be exceedingly low compared to the rest of the world, some can be superbly high compared to the rest. A documentary called 2 Million Minutes spotlights how three country superpowers, USA, India, and China examines how their students prepare for their life thereafter high school. While the USA is doing great things when it comes to education, it is no match correlated to the other two countries.

A lot has changed from the past till now in the education system. Today, students have to pay a large amount of money to get their desired degree. According

In america most students do not see the need to try and become things like engineers or doctors, simply because their country has so many of them, which leads them to lower-profit or higher-profit job options, especially with the huge selection of things to do or become that are available in america. This leads to there being less engineers or more commonly available workers in specific fields, because the students at the time did not see a benefit from becoming one, there were simply too many. Switching to India we see that the options go from wide-ranging to chokingly small. I see how this student either has to pursue a high educational standard and become a engineer or a scientist because their country needs it and will get them profit and benefits especially if they were in a money-poor situation, otherwise they can not pursue education at all. In China we see that the options get a little bit bigger, but require a lot more competitive attitude and motivation. A student in China may be able to look at becoming an engineer or scientist like the last but may also study to fall-back on becoming a musician or dancer if they do not get accepted into a higher-educational school. But the thing that they all share is that their choices will affect the future of their country or even multiple countries, since they all have at least some choice in how they use their time, what their goals are, and how they want to get to them. All in all, it depends on the drive and motivation a student has, no matter where they live, if they want to be something and has the necessary devotion, they can become it, even if they country will have a better or worse economy from their

Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) report, Education at a Glance (2012), says 30% on average of adults in OECD countries have tertiary level education. According to the report, attainment of higher education has increased tremendously over the past 30 years.

The world undeniably becomes “smaller” and “tighter” due to the prosperity of technology and economics, by population movement, information exchange, as well as physical and virtual good trade-offs. In order to be successful when facing the opportunities and challenges in the global and informational age, it is not only helpful but even necessary to use international comparison as an effective public policy tool for administrators and policymakers in the field of Higher Education. Without using international comparison, the educational development speed and potential might be decreased, possible problems happened in other countries might be repeated in our country with large scales of cost and the whole country’s international soft strength and competitive capability might be threatened because of comparatively less competitive human capital, which is mainly produced from higher education.

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare it for today” said Malcolm X. As we all know, education is the one of the key features for the development of any country. To obtain the versatile workers the government should take care for the education of student from an elementary pupil to college student. A majority of high developed countries aim to retain the ministry of education and educational system sophisticated and updated. For example, in some countries such as China, Finland and Turkey, teachers and professors are immensely respected and in most European countries a teacher is regarded as a highly paid profession. To upgrade the

Introduction “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -Nelson Mandela In this era of modern society, everyone wants to live in comfort and ease. Every one aspires for the best in their life. Education contributes to the growth of national income and individual earnings. While land was the main source of wealth and income in agricultural societies, capital and machinery became important in industrial societies. In today’s information societies, knowledge drives economic growth and development. Higher education is the main source of that knowledge – its production, dissemination and its absorption by any society. Economic growth currently depends on the capacity to produce knowledge- based goods. But, the future of knowledge economies

When talking about the relationship between education and social inequality, particularly economic inequality, we can find that education or educational inequality is one of the reason why economic inequality occurs, however, economic inequality causes new educational unfairness in reverse. As mentioned above, gaokao is likened to a dumuqiao or “single-log bridge” (Kipnis, 2001, p.483) as it has the monopoly power to determine whether students from different social origins can get opportunities for higher education. Most importantly, it trigged the rise of merit-based selection, and made the university you graduated from become one of the merits to value (Liu, 2016). In order to cultivate graduates “who can respond to the needs of the economy” (Cockain, 2016, p.314) and revitalize the nation, China has realized “211 Project”, “985 Project”, and even developed world-class research institutions in the 21st century. However, name of these projects and universities become graduates’ labels and enterprises’ filter criteria when recruiting employees, and graduates from prestigious institutions will get much higher starting salary than the ones from common colleges. In the context of China’s reform and ensuring rapid growth in economy, more education means “greater computational skills, more extensive knowledge of geography, more accurate identification of historical events and figures, wider acquaintance with authors and works of literature” (Rong & Shi,

Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) report, Education at a Glance (2012), says 30% on average of adults in OECD countries have tertiary level education. According to the report, attainment of higher education has increased tremendously over the past 30 years.

The incident of over-education may require more of prospect students when choosing which course degree to undertake. The degree of competition is increasing, so much that young people may consider other pathways alternative to academic.

Education is consider as tool for social change as well sustainable development of individual, communities and nation. Higher education is foundation and vehicle for development. Higher education itself is an aspiration ,through which student can attain their higher aim in life and good living standard .Education is considered throughout the world to key to both individuals and societal aspiration for individual education beyond secondary level is assumed to be the way to social esteem, to better paying job and expanded life option and intellectual stimulation and for society, It is considered to be major engine of social justice , equal opportunity and democracy .A Johan stone, funding of Higher education: International perspective ( Garland Publishing, New York, 1993) . Higher education has become higher degree of social justice, self-esteem for marginalized section of society .Education is considered as important means for development of weaker section