Higher Education and Multinational Corporations Linkages: Establishing a Mutual Bond. Lessons for China from Redemocratized Hungary

Abstract

This article examines several issues related to the relationship between higher education institutions and multinational corporations in countries such as Hungary that are undergoing historic economic and political shifts and to discuss implications from the findings for China. The findings suggest that, although Hungary and China differ culturally and in the shift in their political and economic changes, China can benefit from the lessons learned in Hungary.

Educational policies in Central and Eastern Europe: legacies of state socialism, modernization aspirations and challenges of semi-peripheral contexts

“…We invited our contributors to explore ways in which educational policies and practices are shaped in CEE countries, taking into account national and international challenges and developments, including the processes of internationalization, standardization and competitiveness, socio-economic conditions of systems and those operating within them, as well as other issues that occur as vital to educational researchers studying the region. While these themes have already been explored in Policy Futures in Education in relation to different countries throughout the world, the CEE region has so far attracted relatively little attention in the journal (but see Freeman, 2003; Kwiek, 2008; Luka and Sungsri, 2016; Peshkopia, 2014; Pupala et. al, 2016).…”