scholarly journals Three’s Company: China and Taiwan Vying for Mandarin Education in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
Donald Lien ◽  
Peilan Tang
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Teaching Situation ◽  
Education Centre ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Border Conflicts ◽  
Education Market ◽  
Confucius Institutes ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Supervision Model

With decades of stupendous growth and political détente between India and China, Mandarin has become an important human capital for Indians. India clearly shows a preference of Taiwan over China, when mediated between them for different Mandarin resources, even before the epidemic and Sino-India border conflicts. Recently, there have been suggestions to replace Confucius Institutes with Taiwanese institutions, and Taiwan has urged for strengthening cooperation with India in Mandarin education. This paper aims to discuss the feasibility for Taiwan Education Centre to monopolize the Mandarin education market of India. Through data collection and detailed analysis of literature by scholars of Taiwan, China and India, this paper argues that Taiwan alone is incapable of occupying the whole Indian market due to the inadequacy of Mandarin teaching resources and complex tripartite political relations. Moreover, the current trilateral strategies adopted by China, India and Taiwan dissuade the common interests. We propose a customization, cooperation and supervision model to advance Mandarin education in India, and further analyze the feasibility and potential resistance towards the cooperation. This paper is helpful to understanding the Chinese teaching situation in India. It addresses a timely question and offers possible resolution not only to India but also to other countries who are skeptical of Confucius Institutes.

Globalization and Its Impact on Business Education in Emerging Economies: A Case of India

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shweta Malhotra Bhatia ◽  
Sigamani Panneer
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Managerial Roles ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Education Market ◽  
The Impact

The article reviews the impact of globalization on the quality of contemporary business education in India. When the Indian government liberalized the business education market in the 1990s, it was assumed that creation of business schools would automatically lead to employment-ready individuals, especially in managerial roles. On the contrary, certain trends suggest that business schools have been producing suboptimally skilled individuals for the industry, leading to an incessantly widening skill–employability gap. The article discusses the plausible reasons for this gap. The article also argues for integrating emotional intelligence (EI) as a key behavioural skill in management education framework.

scholarly journals Development of Foreign Policy Relations Between Japan and Russia: a Retrospective Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-173
Author(s):  
О. V. Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Analysis ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
Financial Strength ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Standing Up ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Political Economic

The article provides a retrospective analysis of the development of political relations between Japan and Russia from the middle of the XIX century to the present. The international relations have a nearly three-hundred-year history that reflects various periods of recession and recovery, stability and tension. There was and is a diplomatic struggle of states for financial strength, influence on the world stage, standing up for the national interests in the territorial issue, etc. But despite such moments, these relations did not go beyond the boundaries of “peaceful”. Russia and Japan, as strong players in the Pacific region, have always understood the need for cooperation and have looked for it in political, economic and cultural formats. At the present stage relations between Japan and Russia include different areas: security, economy, culture, science. But the unsigned amicable agreement, which has been delayed for more than 70 years, does not provide ample opportunities for further development of productive mutually beneficial relations. Through the “prehistory” of modern bilateral relations between Russia and Japan, the sequence and nature of relations between the countries is determined. The key aspect that determines the sequence and nature of relations between countries is the historical connection. The material of the article is ranked by time periods (stages), the factors that influenced each of the stages are investigated, and the main problems of the relationships are determined. Special emphasis is placed on the problems of our times, in particular the territorial issue of the Southern Kuril Islands, which were formed historically. Today the relations are based on solving common problems in the economy, security and energy. Within the framework of common interests Japan and Russia are seeking to resolve a long-running dispute. Thus, the article consistently reveals the “prehistory” and the nature of modern bilateral relations. The stages and factors that influenced each of the stages are studied, the corresponding conclusions and forecasts are made.

scholarly journals Application of Lean Manufacturing Concepts to Evolving a Policy for Engineering Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 755
Author(s):  
Armando Céspedes-Mota ◽  
Dinesh Shenoy ◽  
Leopoldo Eduardo Cárdenas-Barrón
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
State Diagram ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Value Stream ◽  
Current State ◽  
A Value ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Quality Infrastructure ◽  
Poor Teaching

This work analyzes the current situation of engineering education in India, especially technical universities characterized by low-quality infrastructure, inflexible curricula, and poor teaching resources including faculty, usually resulting in low student learning and very low graduate placement rates, and identifies the root causes of these problems, summarizes the methodologies adapted by previous researchers in the lean area, and applies the lean manufacturing philosophy to engineering education. This paper applies a value stream map to analyze the current state of engineering education. This technique identifies eight wastes and is given in form of a current state diagram. A future state diagram is presented that recommends solutions to eliminate these wastes. These recommendations make learning processes responsive to needs and provide long-lasting value to students. Overall, it is beneficial in developing a policy for engineering education.

Correction to “The Political Determinants of International Trade”

1999 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 931-933 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Morrow ◽  
Randolph M. Siverson ◽  
Tressa E. Tabares
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Computer Program ◽  
Trade Flows ◽  
Standard Errors ◽  
The Political ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Determinants ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Common Interests

Efforts to replicate our study of the effects of politics on trade flows between the major powers have revealed that the computer program written to calculate the estimates produced errors in both the coefficients and the standard errors. Furthermore, these errors have some consequences for the results. In this brief corrigendum, we present corrected tables for our research note and a slightly modified interpretation of the results.Our study examined evidence to assess three arguments about how politics may affect trade. The first contends that positive political relations in a dyad result in higher levels of trade. This argument leads to two hypotheses: States in conflict will have a lower level of trade than those not in conflict, and trade will increase with the degree of common interests between a pair of states. The second argument concludes that democratic dyads will have a higher level of trade than other dyads. The third argument focuses on the security concerns of states and leads to the hypotheses that alliances will increase trade in a bipolar system but will have no effect in a multipolar system. We refer readers to the original article for a fuller statement of the logic of these arguments, their respective hypotheses, and a complete statement of our research design and operationalization of the variables (Morrow, Siverson, and Tabares 1998).

scholarly journals Germany

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Kamiński ◽  
Joanna Ciesielska-Klikowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Confucius Institutes ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Regional Authorities

The aim of the chapter is to analyse how Germany cooperates with China at the substate level. The authors try to highlight the background of the bilateral relations and answer the questions about the grounds for German multidimensional cooperation with China and its transformation in recent years. The chapter consists of three main parts. The first one concentrates on a description of the political, economic and social relations at the interstate level. Firstly, it presents the genesis of political relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People’s Republic of China, as well as how they have evolved until today. Secondly, the data on the economic exchange of recent years and the importance of bilateral cooperation between states in economic dimension is presented. Thirdly, in the section devoted to people-to-people contacts, the authors focus on the importance of the Chinese diaspora in Germany, the number of Chinese students and the role played by Confucius Institutes. The second part of the chapter discusses the theoretical background of international cooperation of German Bundesländer and their position as policy actors on the global scene. The third section presents the outcomes of a survey conducted among German regions and the results of interviews with officials in selected regional authorities and in the German MFA. This final part describes moreover German paradiplomatic relations with Chinese counterparts. This section is supplemented by a case study of the land of Berlin and its cooperation with China.

Data-Based Supervision Methods for Speech-Language Pathology

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Johnson Glaser ◽  
Carole Donnelly
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Supervision Model ◽  
Supervisory Process

The clinical dimensions of the supervisory process have at times been neglected. In this article, we explain the various stages of Goldhammer's clinical supervision model and then describe specific procedures for supervisors in the public schools to use with student teachers. This easily applied methodology lends clarity to the task and helps the student assimilate concrete data which may have previously been relegated to subjective impressions of the supervisor.

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