Vratila sam se u zemlju reda, rada i discipline. Pa pokušavam sve troje kod sebe dovesti u balans nakon mjesec dana spontanosti i uživanja. Zbog toga imam manje vremena da pišem neke zanimljive dogodovštine, jer vrijeme mi je jako bitan resurs, ali mogu sa vama podijeliti  neke citate iz knjiga koje čitam. Trenutno mi je u ruci The Global Auction( The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs and Incomes). Pa slijede i neki zanimljivi citati iz nje.

PS: Nemojte samo preletiti očima jer je na engleskom, vježbajte engleski sa mnom.

Knowledge Wars

Unlike the pundits of neoliberalism who assume the supply of human capital creates its own demand in the job market, policy makers in Chine understood that more is required if investments in education are to translate into economic gain.

Trends in educational attaintment at college level(1991-2007), aged 25-34.

Figure shows that the United States, had one of the highest participation rate in the early 1990s, but has since been overtaken by several countries, with others in close pursuit.

Indeed, the lesson received by policy makers in America was that much of the success of the Asian Tigers resulted from investing in the human capital of workforce. What nobody predicted was the educational mobilization of the largest countries on the planet. Chine and India with the population over a bilion people, along with others, including Brazil (199 milion) and Russia(142 milion), all entered the global knowledge wars.

For example: Next Figure shows exapsion of higher education in selected emerging and development economies(enrollments), in thousands. Source:Compiled from the Worldbank data.

  China had over 7 milion more students than the United States and 10 times as many students as Britain.But perhaps the most extraordinary statistic on education in Chine was enrollment in high school, which witnessed an increase from 26 percent to almost 60 percent since 1990.

Koje mjere su poduzete da bi se to postiglo: To achive this expansion, more than 250 new teacher-training colleges were established, and qualified graduate teachers were offered better housing, remuneration, and health care by Ministry of Education.

In 1995, as part of this strategy, the Chinese government launched Project 211 aimed at strenghtening over 100 institutions of higher education and key disciplinary areas as NATIONAL PRIORITY for the twenty-first century, with the mission of training high-level profesional manpower to implement the national strategy for social and economic development, accelerating economic progress, pushing forward the development of science, technology and culture, enhancing Chine’s overall capacity and international competitiveness.

Slično su radile Indija, Russia, Japan,South Korea, Japan, New Zealand,  i dr. ali neću vas previše tušiti sa tim. Jasna je poenta.

Biću sretna ako ste i ovo pročitali.

Do iduceg puta, hasta la vista baby. 🙂