Not to long ago the world had three centre’s of knowledge: Europa, America and Japan. Only there could you find decent universities. That’s where the knowledge was. I met a man recently who went to Malaysia arround 1970. He said: it was England’s plantation. Nothing more. Now Kuala Lumpur is a thriving capital with high rises all round.
The west and Japan lost it’s monopoly on knowledge. In 2008 the university of Hong Kong was ranked 26 and that of Singapore 30 in the best universities arround the world. In total there are 5 universities from China or Hong Kon, 2 from South Korea and 2 from Singapore in the Top 100 of the Times Higer Education. And we’ve even seen some decline already, since the university of Being was once top 20 and the Indian institute of technology has dropped out of the top 100 and was once top 50 (in 2004).
This worldwide spread of knowledge had several implications, also for recruitment.
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