Higher education faces accelerating disruption – technological, environmental and social. Traditional curriculum models are too rigid and reactive. They fail to match the complexities of today’s world. This paper advances foresight-based framework for curriculum design. It foregrounds adaptability, …
This article draws on existing research, including publicly available data, to identify changes in Colombian HE which have led to its progressive massification and neoliberalisation. These include the introduction of standardised testing; endogenous and exogenous privatisation (Ball and Youdell, 200…
The basis of this article is a follow-up study of a cohort of pupils in the third largest city of Sweden, Malmö. The pupils finished fourth grade at compulsory school in 2008. We have data about every individual in the cohort as well as corresponding information about their parents. The information …
This analysis begins with a general overview of the Great Reset as outlined by Klaus Schwab and other members of the World Economic Forum. It will focus on the themes of redefining the social contract by discussing the philosophies of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau; controlling carbon output and its di…
In welfare-policy studies, conditions are often depicted at a national level. This is the case not least in studies of young people’s paths and detours to working life. Studies at a high aggregation level have their advantages when it comes to distinguishing differences in living conditions between …
What is the significance of regulations of job contracts and wages when it comes to young people’s access to labour market? This is an issue that has attracted and continues to attract a great deal of interest in both research and politics. Proposals for deregulated employment protection and reduced…
This article suggests that one needs to consider education as inherently political to better understand some of the problems in education policy in developing countries. It suggests that using political metaphors as a discursive framework can enhance the understanding of some of the limitations of f…
