Nix the BRICs—At Least for Higher Education Scholarship

Altbach, Philip G. ; Malee Bassett, Roberta

Taylor and Francis

关键词: BRIC;    BRICS;    MINTs;    education;    higher education;   

DOI  :  10.1080/00091383.2014.941768

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Although the “BRIC” moniker for the group of emerging economic powers—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—has become ubiquitous among financial analysts, it was actually coined by former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill as much for its clear imagery as for any actual commonalities amongst the countries (O’Neill, 2001). The bloc is even less relevant in understanding the complex higher education environments in these or other emerging economic powers such as Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Turkey (for which O’Neill has coined another clever acronym: the MINTs).