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Chinese universities’ special programs supporting talents to seek a United Nations career: a center-periphery-model analysis
In recent years, China’s higher education sector has started to establish special programs to train and support talents to seek career opportunities in the United Nations (UN). To explore these special programs and understand their relationship with China’s internationalization strategies and its hi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9568918/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36268463 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00938-1 |
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description | In recent years, China’s higher education sector has started to establish special programs to train and support talents to seek career opportunities in the United Nations (UN). To explore these special programs and understand their relationship with China’s internationalization strategies and its higher education, we used the center-periphery model as the theoretical framework. We analyzed 53 institutional documents and conducted semi-structured interviews among 5 university staff members and 21 students/recent graduates who were involved in these special programs. The analysis on the special programs implied Chinese higher education’s peripheral position in supporting talents to work in the UN. This was reflected by the conforming practice, including accepting current UN recruitment regulations and English’s dominance in the UN recruitment practice. However, we also identified alternative dynamics that China and its higher education do not simply obey the center-periphery model and accept their peripheral status. Instead, special programs were established to achieve China’s global strategy of moving to the center of international arena via multilateralism and international organizations such as the UN. This study sheds light on further explorations of the state-university relationship in China in the globalization era, especially from the perspective of cultural diplomacy and soft power. |
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spelling | pubmed-95689182022-10-16 Chinese universities’ special programs supporting talents to seek a United Nations career: a center-periphery-model analysis Liu, Suyu Ding, Wenjun High Educ (Dordr) Article In recent years, China’s higher education sector has started to establish special programs to train and support talents to seek career opportunities in the United Nations (UN). To explore these special programs and understand their relationship with China’s internationalization strategies and its higher education, we used the center-periphery model as the theoretical framework. We analyzed 53 institutional documents and conducted semi-structured interviews among 5 university staff members and 21 students/recent graduates who were involved in these special programs. The analysis on the special programs implied Chinese higher education’s peripheral position in supporting talents to work in the UN. This was reflected by the conforming practice, including accepting current UN recruitment regulations and English’s dominance in the UN recruitment practice. However, we also identified alternative dynamics that China and its higher education do not simply obey the center-periphery model and accept their peripheral status. Instead, special programs were established to achieve China’s global strategy of moving to the center of international arena via multilateralism and international organizations such as the UN. This study sheds light on further explorations of the state-university relationship in China in the globalization era, especially from the perspective of cultural diplomacy and soft power. Springer Netherlands 2022-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9568918/ /pubmed/36268463 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00938-1 Text en © Crown 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Liu, Suyu Ding, Wenjun Chinese universities’ special programs supporting talents to seek a United Nations career: a center-periphery-model analysis |
title | Chinese universities’ special programs supporting talents to seek a United Nations career: a center-periphery-model analysis |
title_full | Chinese universities’ special programs supporting talents to seek a United Nations career: a center-periphery-model analysis |
title_fullStr | Chinese universities’ special programs supporting talents to seek a United Nations career: a center-periphery-model analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Chinese universities’ special programs supporting talents to seek a United Nations career: a center-periphery-model analysis |
title_short | Chinese universities’ special programs supporting talents to seek a United Nations career: a center-periphery-model analysis |
title_sort | chinese universities’ special programs supporting talents to seek a united nations career: a center-periphery-model analysis |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9568918/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36268463 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00938-1 |
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