عنوان

Understanding External Policy Influences in Pakistani Higher Education

شماره

TLpq2323128159

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Understanding External Policy Influences in Pakistani Higher Education

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Taiyeb, Aamir

نام ساير پديدآوران

Hayhoe, Ruth

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Toronto (Canada)

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2019

نام خاص و کميت اثر

296

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Toronto (Canada)

امتياز متن

2019

متن يادداشت

Pakistan, the sixth most populous nation in the world, faces complex and multifaceted challenges as it seeks to achieve middle-income country status in the 21st century. To achieve this objective, Pakistan must address the quality, access and governance issues facing its higher education (HE) sector. With barely 1 in 10 Pakistanis being able to access tertiary-level studies, external agencies have stepped in to assist the Pakistani HE sector meets its development needs. Despite several decades of involvement, and hundreds of millions of dollars spent by international donors and aid agencies, little has been achieved. This dissertation examines the nature and extent of participation by international actors in Pakistan's HE sector. The study explores the underlying dynamics between the external and the internal in the context of the sector, and seeks to identify points of convergence and divergence in terms of a preferred future. The central research question motivating the study is: How have external actors influenced Pakistan's HE system, and in particular, its governance? To answer this question, 43 qualitative research interviews were conducted over 5 months in 3 large urban centres in Pakistan (Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad) with senior governors active in the Pakistani HE sector including representatives of Pakistani government agencies, international organizations and HE institutional leaders. The data reveals the extent of external influences in the system by type (e.g., foreign aid, policy borrowing), and by actor (e.g., the World Bank, USAID, British Council). The findings suggest that Pakistan's HE sector is affected by external policy influences in a multitude of ways, and that endogenous and exogenous actors do not always see eye-to-eye, resulting in a mismatch of policy prescriptions at times. Above all, the findings suggest that the lack of an indigenous policy community has resulted in a sector that is outward-facing and looking for solutions from without, rather than from within, thereby resulting in an externally-oriented path dependency. Such external policy pressures will likely continue to exercise an out-sized influence on the Pakistani higher education sector unless tools for effective self-governance and self-regulation are developed.

موضوع مستند نشده

Education

موضوع مستند نشده

Education policy

موضوع مستند نشده

Higher education

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hayhoe, Ruth

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Taiyeb, Aamir

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y