Moving from international rankings to Mexican higher education’s real progress: A critical perspective

Theories of international production. A critical perspective

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the role that the nation-state plays on the behaviour of the transnational companies (TNCs) and how it affects our view of TNCs as efficiency versus strategy driven. Design/methodology/approach – Starts with a brief historical analysis of the main theories of international production and the TNCs to which it then relates the role of the nation-s...

Moving From National to International Environmental Policy

Managing information and knowledge sharing cultures in higher educations institutions

Abstracts: Information and knowledge (IK) are very important for any institution including education higher institution. Those IK are stored in every single individual in organization in the form of experiences, skills, etc. The growth of the higher education institution nowadays relies on how an institution manage the dissemination of those IK over the organization by using information technol...

Biobanking in a fast moving world: an international perspective.

Diseases including the main chronic "killer" diseases have a global dimension and so has biobanking, the main cornerstone for biomarker discovery, validation and implementation in prevention, diagnosis, or therapy. Interconnecting biobanks associated with cohort studies or collections of diseased tissues raises many issues in terms of ethics, governance, regulations, technical standardization, ...

From rankings to mission.

Since the 1980s, school ranking systems have been a topic of discussion among leaders of higher education. Various ranking systems are based on inadequate data that fail to illustrate the complex nature and special contributions of the institutions they purport to rank, including U.S. medical schools, each of which contributes uniquely to meeting national health care needs. A study by Tancredi ...