Thirteen A sin of omission: New Zealand’s export education industry and foreign policy
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Andrew Butcher
Abstract
This chapter examines the interaction between international education and foreign policy in the context of New Zealand, a small country of 4.2 million people but one which has seen dramatic growth in international students studying within its shores. It identifies a major growth in students travelling, first from South East Asia but more recently especially from China, Japan, India and Saudi Arabia. It argues that the links between foreign policy and international education are clear to see, even if policy scholars, civil servants and policy makers in the country have yet to realise their significance. It notes that the foreign policy objectives of aid and the defeat of communist interests from South East Asia lay behind the first, limited opening up of New Zealand’s borders to international students in 1951 under the Colombo Plan.
Abstract
This chapter examines the interaction between international education and foreign policy in the context of New Zealand, a small country of 4.2 million people but one which has seen dramatic growth in international students studying within its shores. It identifies a major growth in students travelling, first from South East Asia but more recently especially from China, Japan, India and Saudi Arabia. It argues that the links between foreign policy and international education are clear to see, even if policy scholars, civil servants and policy makers in the country have yet to realise their significance. It notes that the foreign policy objectives of aid and the defeat of communist interests from South East Asia lay behind the first, limited opening up of New Zealand’s borders to international students in 1951 under the Colombo Plan.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Notes on contributors v
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Symposium on the Coalition government
- Conservative social policy: from conviction to coalition 7
- Something old and blue, or red, bold and new? Welfare reform and the Coalition government 25
- The Conservative Party and the ‘Big Society’ 45
- The age of responsibility: social policy and citizenship in the early 21st century 63
- Debating the ‘death tax’: the politics of inheritance tax in the UK 85
- The debate about public service occupational pension reform 103
- Welfare to work after the recession: from the New Deals to the Work Programme 127
- Lone parents and the Conservatives: anything new? 147
- A treble blow? Child poverty in 2010 and beyond 165
- The English NHS as a market: challenges for the Coalition government 185
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Education in international context
- Citizenship education in international perspective: lessons from the UK and overseas 211
- “You’re only going to get it if you really shout for it”: education dispute resolution in the 21st century in England 233
- A sin of omission: New Zealand’s export education industry and foreign policy 257
- Student security in the global education market 281
- Exporting policy: the growth of multinational education policy businesses and new policy ‘assemblages’ 303
- Index 323
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Notes on contributors v
-
Symposium on the Coalition government
- Conservative social policy: from conviction to coalition 7
- Something old and blue, or red, bold and new? Welfare reform and the Coalition government 25
- The Conservative Party and the ‘Big Society’ 45
- The age of responsibility: social policy and citizenship in the early 21st century 63
- Debating the ‘death tax’: the politics of inheritance tax in the UK 85
- The debate about public service occupational pension reform 103
- Welfare to work after the recession: from the New Deals to the Work Programme 127
- Lone parents and the Conservatives: anything new? 147
- A treble blow? Child poverty in 2010 and beyond 165
- The English NHS as a market: challenges for the Coalition government 185
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Education in international context
- Citizenship education in international perspective: lessons from the UK and overseas 211
- “You’re only going to get it if you really shout for it”: education dispute resolution in the 21st century in England 233
- A sin of omission: New Zealand’s export education industry and foreign policy 257
- Student security in the global education market 281
- Exporting policy: the growth of multinational education policy businesses and new policy ‘assemblages’ 303
- Index 323
