Tag: education

  • The Stratified Expansion of Higher Education and Employment Inequalities in Japan

    In recent decades, manufacturing automation and information technology have transformed the employment structures in advanced capitalist economies. According to Oesch (2015) and Sachs (2020), while lower-skilled manufacturing occupations decrease, the expansion of higher education upskills the labor force and places them in the growing high-skilled occupations that complement technology and automation. However, Japan seems to…

  • From Project Nous to the Commodification of Education

    Recently, I am involved in a non-governmental organization project called Project Nous. It is a program initiated by a few Chinese international students to the U.S. and Europe, promoting the idea of liberal arts education, which is insufficient within China’s state education system, by organizing summer camps in Chinese cities, where seminars of no more…