ABSTRACT

Intergovernmental organisations (IOs) have developed global policies that have shaped the practices of higher education for decades. The OECD, WTO, and World Bank have long framed higher education as both a contributor to human capital and a driver of economic growth. Yet, their policy agendas have transformed over time and more recently taken up neoliberal narratives. This paper analyses a corpus of IO texts to demonstrate how these organisations have shifted the governing responsibility for higher education, subordinated higher education to the practice of lifelong learning, and created the conditions for increasing international student mobility. Applying a Foucauldian analysis of discourse and studies in governmentality, this paper broadly explores the complexity of IO governing policies, which have (re)imagined and (re)positioned the purpose of higher education and its role as a technology of government. As global environmental, social, political, and health crises demand globally researched and financed solutions, this exploration of IO policy is a necessary step in the work of reimaging the future practices of higher education.

摘要

政府间组织 (IO) 制定了几十年来塑造高等教育实践的全球政策。经合组织、世贸组织和世界银行长期以来一直将高等教育视为人力资本的贡献者和经济增长的驱动力。然而，随着时间的推移，他们的政策议程发生了变化，并且最近开始采用新自由主义的说法。本文分析了一个 IO 文本语料库，以展示这些组织如何将高等教育的治理责任转移，将高等教育从属于终身学习的实践，并为增加国际学生的流动性创造条件。本文运用福柯对治理性话语和研究的分析，广泛探讨了 IO 治理政策的复杂性，它们（重新）构想和（重新）定位了高等教育的目的及其作为政府技术的作用。由于全球环境、社会、政治和健康危机需要全球研究和资助的解决方案，因此对 IO 政策的探索是重塑未来高等教育实践工作的必要步骤。