As digital transformation increasingly drives reforms in vocational education, this study aims to assess the current status and effectiveness of digitalization policies across five provinces in China. By applying the Policy Modeling Consistency (PMC) index model, the study quantitatively analyzes 21 policy documents from 2012 to 2024 based on nine…

The story of Vietnam's education together with its formulae for success and remaining issues have been much researched. However, there is a rather mysterious group of institutions in the country's education system that is much less explored yet in close relation to its top ranking in international academic competitions: truong chuyên…

This article provides an overview of the evolution map of China's academic burden reduction strategy by conducting a new institutional analysis. Our analysis includes various adoptions of features and configurations introduced during the 1978-2021 period, which are inherently embedded in the wide context of political economy. By using archival…

This study aims to provide a systematic review of research in the field of higher education reform in China. We analyzes 30,952 publications collected from China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) spanning from 1949 to 2023 and employs CiteSpace and Microsoft Excel for bibliometric analysis. It was found that the research on higher education…

Much attention has been given in recent years to how the OECD promotes a neoliberal, marketised vision of education. There has been less focus, however, on how the OECD also offers a neocolonial vision of education, which promotes the epistemologies of the Global North at the expense of those of the Global South. This article contributes to this…

Background/purpose: Gender inequality in higher education remains a persistent issue that hinders the equitable access and participation of both women and men in the academic field. This study aims to analyze global research trends in gender inequality in higher education from 1993 to 2024, focusing on how these trends are reflected in…

Based on prior research indexed in the Scopus database, this coherent literature review explores the transformative impact of the independent campus policy on Indonesian higher education by highlighting its role in forming the autonomy of students to shape their academic trajectories. The analysis spans 63 publications from 2020 to 2023, revealing…

The increasing ubiquity of digital technologies in the twenty-first century has led to calls for education reform focused on digital literacy, but what exactly does this term mean? The concept of digital literacy has evolved much since its evolution from media and new literacies scholarship, resulting in a myriad of definitions. Previous attempts…

Research on education in emergencies underscores the significant structural obstacles refugee children encounter in accessing education within low- and middle-income countries. However, there remains a notable gap in understanding the challenges confronted by transnational migrant children and the evolving nature of these challenges amidst…

In an evolving global knowledge economy, many countries are actively implementing policies to recruit and retain foreign students as potential global talents and valuable human resources. This article provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of foreign student employment policy in China. The study finds that foreign student employment…

This scoping review explores how the term "classroom readiness" is understood in relation to assessing the performance of graduating teachers. This review is timely because the assessment of classroom readiness has been touted in education policy to be the solution to enhancing public confidence that teachers entering the profession are…

Educational leadership for social justice is a recurrent educational theme and endeavour with significant implications for creating equitable and inclusive educational ecosystems where all children thrive. However, social justice constitutes an ontological stance that is interpreted, practiced and conceptualised in different ways across various…

The international nature of doctoral education creates interesting tensions where national systems, institutional policies, disciplinary customs, individual supervisor preferences, and doctoral researcher needs meet. The Thesis by Publication (TBP), a model where published works are included within the thesis, is available to doctoral researchers…

Although international organisations (IOs) are recognised as important actors in education, their involvement in vocational education and training (VET) remains underexamined. This article reviews the current state of research on IOs in VET, focusing on the ILO, OECD, UNESCO, and the World Bank, through an integrative literature review of 174…

The logics of policy privatisation in schooling, including decentralisation, school autonomy, and discretionary funding mechanisms, shift responsibility for particular types of students onto individual schools and their staff. Burch (2021) asks to what extent the most disadvantaged students in government schools are able to access services most…