The Global Schoolhouse: Governing Singapore’s Knowledge Economy Aspirations

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Singapore Singapore ’s goal to re-build itself into an innovation-driven economy with world-class capabilities has opened new opportunities and challenges for its universities. This chapter analyses the Global Global Schoolhouse, a key education policy platform that aims to transform Singapore Singapore into a “knowledge-based economy”. Two Global Global Schoolhouse initiatives are examined—the alliance between Singapore Singapore and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and the institutional restructuring aimed at re-modelling the National University of Singapore Singapore into a “global knowledge enterprise”. More than an effort to re-structure the mission and governance of Singapore Singapore ’s universities, the Global Global Schoolhouse can be read as part of a broader initiative to re-engineer the institution of citizenship, creating tensions between equity and Singapore Singapore ’s new brand of meritocracy. This chapter concludes with a discussion of the possibility of new regionalization initiatives for Singapore Singapore ’s universities and new avenues for knowledge creation it potentially represents.

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Sidhu, R., Ho, K. C., & Yeoh, B. (2011). The Global Schoolhouse: Governing Singapore’s Knowledge Economy Aspirations. In Higher Education Dynamics (Vol. 36, pp. 255–271). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1500-4_13

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