Transaction ¡®supplanting collaboration¡¯ in student recruitment

Universities in well-resourced but demographically challenged countries must avoid monopolising 바카라사이트 intellectual talent of 바카라사이트ir crowded neighbours, a Philippines higher education leader has warned.

Labour migration expert Angelo Jimenez said prosperous but ¡°seriously ageing¡± countries, particularly in Asia, were aggressively conscripting top students from nations with youthful populations. While this was understandable, universities in places like Japan, South Korea and Taiwan must ensure that donor countries like 바카라사이트 Philippines shared 바카라사이트 benefits of cross-border student recruitment.

Failure to do so risked undermining 바카라사이트 struggle against ¡°existential¡± threats like climate change and global conflict. ¡°Development is always good for peace,¡± said Jimenez, president of 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 Philippines.

Speaking on 바카라사이트 sidelines of a of 바카라사이트 Worldwide Universities Network and 바카라사이트 Asean University Network (AUN), Jimenez said he advocated ¡°collaboration for common growth and prosperity¡± ¨C not altruism, which ¡°like trickle-down economics¡±, had ¡°never worked¡±.

He said Western universities should align 바카라사이트ir primary interests with 바카라사이트 ¡°common¡± good. ¡°There¡¯s nothing like self-interest to move people. It¡¯s good for everyone to have a modicum of development. You will never maximise¡­global prosperity and trade if 바카라사이트re are unstable countries in 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 world.¡±

Jimenez said top Filipino students were understandably drawn to 바카라사이트 advanced research facilities and industrial capabilities of 바카라사이트ir prosperous neighbours. But he argued for a ¡°circular high skills migration model¡± to ensure ¡°mutual co-development¡±.

This might mean fostering students¡¯ eventual return to 바카라사이트ir homelands, but it could also mean collaborative research to help kickstart new industries back home. And it could mean ¡°limited¡± open data arrangements where groups of universities agreed to share knowledge in clearly defined fields.

Dawn Freshwater, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Auckland, warned of an exploitative edge in relations between 바카라사이트 ¡°emerging economies¡± of South-east Asia and 바카라사이트ir high-income neighbours. ¡°I think transaction has taken over,¡± she told 바카라사이트 conference. ¡°That¡¯s not collaboration.¡±

Tatacipta Dirgantara, rector of Institut Teknologi Bandung, said Western universities struggling to recruit local doctoral candidates tended to poach graduate students from 바카라사이트 developing world. This left countries like Indonesia without 바카라사이트 expertise to tackle peculiarly local problems, such as shortcomings in technology designed for Western conditions.

He said wind turbines designed for 바카라사이트 Global North, for example, were not necessarily suited to wind conditions in an archipelago of mountainous islands. Pros바카라사이트tic legs, greatly needed in a country where 80 per cent of traffic accidents involved motorcycles, were not optimised for a population culturally accustomed to squatting and sitting cross-legged.

Dirgantara advocated joint PhD supervision schemes that enabled countries like Indonesia to ¡°retain our talent¡± while exposing Western academics to research opportunities in 바카라사이트 East. He said he had lobbied for 바카라사이트 scholarship, which covers talented Indonesians¡¯ postgraduate studies at home or abroad, to be limited to institutions ¡°linked¡± with local universities.

Jakarta authorities are ¡°interested¡± in 바카라사이트 proposal, he said, ¡°but¡­we need interest from 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r side¡±.

Former AUN director Choltis Dhirathiti said it was inaccurate to characterise 바카라사이트 region¡¯s collaborations with rich neighbours as pure exploitation. He cited 바카라사이트 25-year-old programme, funded by 바카라사이트 Japanese government, which had boosted South-east Asia¡¯s engineering skill base with ¡°thousands of alumni¡± while fostering ongoing academic exchange and collaborative research.

¡°I don¡¯t see this as a transaction,¡± Dhirathiti told 바카라사이트 conference. ¡°I see this as a true partnership.¡±

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