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The transnational track: state sponsorship and Singapore’s Oxbridge elite
- Source :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education. 36:11-33
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2014.
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Abstract
- This paper explores the process of transnational institutional matching between elite institutions in Singapore and Great Britain, and the role of state-sponsored scholarships in enabling this process as political and administrative elites are selected and groomed. Using data gathered from in-depth interviews conducted with Singaporean undergraduates study- ing at Oxbridge and a dataset of the institutional origins of 580 Singap- orean government scholars, the analysis illustrates how students are being matched from two Singaporean junior colleges to Oxbridge and back to the higher strata of the Singaporean Public Service. We show that the educational trajectories of these government scholars need to be addressed in relation to the informational capital acquired in specific elite schools as well as the governing roles these individuals are meant to obtain within the state upon graduation.
- Subjects :
- Sociologi
Sociology and Political Science
Political Science
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scholarships
transnational education
governmentality
Education
Politics
Sociology
State (polity)
student mobility
institutional matching
Oxbridge
Educational Sciences
Social science
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Singapore
Government
business.industry
Statsvetenskap
Bourdieu
Public relations
elite schools
sponsored mobility
Capital (economics)
Elite
Public service
internationalization
business
Utbildningsvetenskap
Graduation
Reputation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14653346 and 01425692
- Volume :
- 36
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c0442ad996e7484f98e9a8c380c286ca