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Globalisation is the process of international integration arising from the exchange of ideas, products, world views, and other aspects of culture. Globalisation has a significant impact on employment, skills, vocational education and training, and higher education.
Research
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- Globalisation
- Globalisation and employment
- Globalisation and higher education
- Globalisation and skills
- Globalisation and vocational education and training (VET)
Recent publications
- 'An end to the job as we know it': how an IT professional has experienced the uncertainty of IT outsourcing [UK]
- Disrupting adult and community education: teaching, learning, and working in the periphery
- Equipping Scotland for the future: key challenges for the Scottish skills system
- Education, globalization, and income inequality in Asia
- Internationalization in VET: an overview
- Investing in skills for inclusive trade [WTO; ILO]
- OECD skills outlook 2017: skills and global value chains
- Self-directed learning in the context of internationalization in TVET in Vietnam
- The changing discourse on higher education and the nation-state, 1960-2010
- The future of skills: employment in 2030
- The impact of trade and technology on skills in Viet Nam
- The US community college after globalization
- Trade and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): how can trade in education services contribute to the SDGs?
- Trouble in the making?: the future of manufacturing-led development
- Youth transitions, VET and the 'making' of class: changing theorisations for changing times?
Suggested reading
Key research from a broad date range
- Aligning global organizations' human capital needs and global supply-chain strategies
- Globalisation and economic integration in Europe: lessons from labour migration policies and challenges for labour market adjustment
- Globalization and the labour market situation of older workers: exploring trends, challenges and strategies for adaptation
- Globalisation in higher education: manifestations and implications
- Globalisation, transnational policies and adult education
- The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia
- Vietnamese higher education in the context of globalization: qualitative or quantitative targets?
Resources
- 6 new globalisation trends to expect in 2017
- Four ways globalization affects American workers
- Globalization [ILO]
- Globalization, higher education and inclusive development: redefining the policy paradox (video)
- Industry and globalisation [OECD]
- Internationalization Strategy [Germany]
- How globalization affects developed countries
- Teaching and learning for a sustainable future: Globalisation [UNESCO]
- The future of work [ILO]
- The impact of globalisation on VET: challenges and opportunities (video)
- The least-skilled workers are the losers in globalisation
- Top 100 countries in the Globalization Index 2016
- We can't undo globalization, but we can improve it
