How the Kingdom of Bhutan Played the Australian Government -- and Won

Autor/in	Barker, Joanne
Titel	How the Kingdom of Bhutan Played the Australian Government -- and Won
Quelle	In: Australian Universities' Review, 64 (2022) 2, S.27-32 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0818-8068
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; International Relations; International Programs; Educational Policy; Scholarships; Program Evaluation; Program Costs; Federal Programs; Bhutan; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Internationale Beziehungen; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Scholarship; Stipendium; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Australien
Abstract	The Australian Government's Endeavour international scholarship program had strategic interests in international education at its core, but uneven and strategically incompatible outcomes emerged over the 16 years of its existence. An unexpected outcome was the dominance of the small Himalayan nation of Bhutan as a substantial beneficiary of the program. This research draws on official Endeavour recipient data for the years 2007 to 2019; on qualitative interviews with scholarship program stakeholders in Australia, and on two unpublished reviews of the program obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI). Combined, they reveal the workings of an ambitious scholarship program into which significant public monies were invested, but which was hampered by its adherence to a poorly-defined concept of 'merit', inadequate consultation with stakeholders and a failure to connect with international education priorities in a way which might have resulted in more valuable outcomes for Australian international education providers. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01