Ren-Hao Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 760254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ren-Hao Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ren-Hao |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7146-6882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Zone‐Based Transnational Education
Transnational education (TNE) is typically theorized through Jane Knight's knowledge diplomacy framework, which emphasizes cooperation and mutual benefit, or Jenny Lee's soft power perspective, which highlights geopolitical competition. This article argues that both frameworks fail to explain zone‐based TNE, where universities operate within Special Economic Zones explicitly designed for capital accumulation. Drawing on Quinn Slobodian's analysis…
Filling the places
Most government funding for domestic Australian places is paid to universities as a flexible block grant. Using a multiple case study approach, this paper explores internal university decision-making on the government-supported student places funded by this block grant. It analyses who contributes to the decision-making process, the factors they consider, and how final decisions are made. Across all universities studied, a senior executive group …
University missions and financial incentives
Funding incentives are widely used to steer universities towards meeting policy objectives, but they do not always produce the expected outcomes. The headline policy of Australia’s Job-ready Graduates (JRG) university policy was the change to student fees, lower for priority ‘job ready’ disciplines and higher for others, to steer student course choices towards national priorities. JRG also significantly changed funding arrangements from a univers…
From global rankings to local responsibilities
Higher education governance has increasingly been examined through critical spatial theories that emphasise how spatiality is politically produced by and for the exercise of power. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of governmentality, this paper analyses how space and geographic entities are constituted through the policy, and rendered as specific sites through which political effects are embodied. Taiwan’s Higher Education Sprout Project provides an…
Policy mobilities and the (re)making of higher education militarisation under Aukus
Geopolitical tensions have intensified the militarisation of higher education in many countries, where university programmes are steered by governments to enhance sovereign capabilities. Drawing on a policy mobilities perspective, this paper examines Australia’s Nuclear-Powered Submarine Student Pathway (NPSSP), a government-funded initiative that enables universities to offer nuclear-related undergraduate programmes aligned with AUKUS strategies…
Making Higher Education Market Through Open Data Platform
Data openness has become imperative as the oversupply of university provision and a plummeting birth rate have severely impacted university systems. With public accessibility, open data platforms are transforming the higher education governance, which enables students to understand the true level of risk faced by financially struggling universities and make informed decisions about their choices. While extensive literature has examined the shift …
Tracing future education reforms
Calculation for best decision on university places under the demand-driven funding system
Calculation has emerged as an imperative practice, providing universities with one of their most effective strategies for self-governance. This norm has significantly influenced university decisions on the availability of places across different disciplines. Utilising the Foucauldian conceptual tool ‘technology of government’, this paper delves into the nuances of self-governance under the Australian Demand-Driven Funding System, which allows uni…
Declined quality? A poststructural policy analysis of the ‘quality problem’ in Taiwanese higher education
The tension between broadening university capacity and maintain-ing quality is a global phenomenon. While numerous studies have analysed the enactments of various policies that aimed to address declining university quality, few have examined the underlying beliefs that define what is conceptualised as a ‘quality problem’ within the policy proposals. Utilising Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’ (WPR) approach, this study provid…
From social visibility to political invisibility
From social visibility to political invisibility: the school in Nationalist Taiwan as fulcrum for an evolving world ethos." Asian Studies Review, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Problematising the Quality Assurance Policy Shift in Taiwan
The Emergence and Policy (mis)Alignment of Teach For Taiwan
Teach For All (TFAll) is global network of programs based on Teach For America. Since 2007, TFAll has spread to more than 60 countries and had a considerable impact on educational policy across educational jurisdictions. Scant research, however, has examined ‘shadow’ programs based on this model but unaffiliated with TFAll, such as Teach For Taiwan (TFT). This paper engages in a critical policy analysis of TFT and examines both its emergence and …
Calculation for best decision on university places under the demand-driven funding system
Calculation has emerged as an imperative practice, providing universities with one of their most effective strategies for self-governance. This norm has significantly influenced university decisions on the availability of places across different disciplines. Utilising the Foucauldian conceptual tool ‘technology of government’, this paper delves into the nuances of self-governance under the Australian Demand-Driven Funding System, which allows uni…
Problematising the Quality Assurance Policy Shift in Taiwan
The Emergence and Policy (mis)Alignment of Teach For Taiwan
Teach For All (TFAll) is global network of programs based on Teach For America. Since 2007, TFAll has spread to more than 60 countries and had a considerable impact on educational policy across educational jurisdictions. Scant research, however, has examined ‘shadow’ programs based on this model but unaffiliated with TFAll, such as Teach For Taiwan (TFT). This paper engages in a critical policy analysis of TFT and examines both its emergence and …
From social visibility to political invisibility
From social visibility to political invisibility: the school in Nationalist Taiwan as fulcrum for an evolving world ethos." Asian Studies Review, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Problematising the Quality Assurance Policy Shift in Taiwan
The Emergence and Policy (mis)Alignment of Teach For Taiwan
Teach For All (TFAll) is global network of programs based on Teach For America. Since 2007, TFAll has spread to more than 60 countries and had a considerable impact on educational policy across educational jurisdictions. Scant research, however, has examined ‘shadow’ programs based on this model but unaffiliated with TFAll, such as Teach For Taiwan (TFT). This paper engages in a critical policy analysis of TFT and examines both its emergence and …
Declined quality? A poststructural policy analysis of the ‘quality problem’ in Taiwanese higher education
The tension between broadening university capacity and maintain-ing quality is a global phenomenon. While numerous studies have analysed the enactments of various policies that aimed to address declining university quality, few have examined the underlying beliefs that define what is conceptualised as a ‘quality problem’ within the policy proposals. Utilising Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’ (WPR) approach, this study provid…
Policy mobilities and the (re)making of higher education militarisation under Aukus
Geopolitical tensions have intensified the militarisation of higher education in many countries, where university programmes are steered by governments to enhance sovereign capabilities. Drawing on a policy mobilities perspective, this paper examines Australia’s Nuclear-Powered Submarine Student Pathway (NPSSP), a government-funded initiative that enables universities to offer nuclear-related undergraduate programmes aligned with AUKUS strategies…
Making Higher Education Market Through Open Data Platform
Data openness has become imperative as the oversupply of university provision and a plummeting birth rate have severely impacted university systems. With public accessibility, open data platforms are transforming the higher education governance, which enables students to understand the true level of risk faced by financially struggling universities and make informed decisions about their choices. While extensive literature has examined the shift …
Tracing future education reforms
Calculation for best decision on university places under the demand-driven funding system
Calculation has emerged as an imperative practice, providing universities with one of their most effective strategies for self-governance. This norm has significantly influenced university decisions on the availability of places across different disciplines. Utilising the Foucauldian conceptual tool ‘technology of government’, this paper delves into the nuances of self-governance under the Australian Demand-Driven Funding System, which allows uni…
Zone‐Based Transnational Education
Transnational education (TNE) is typically theorized through Jane Knight's knowledge diplomacy framework, which emphasizes cooperation and mutual benefit, or Jenny Lee's soft power perspective, which highlights geopolitical competition. This article argues that both frameworks fail to explain zone‐based TNE, where universities operate within Special Economic Zones explicitly designed for capital accumulation. Drawing on Quinn Slobodian's analysis…
Filling the places
Most government funding for domestic Australian places is paid to universities as a flexible block grant. Using a multiple case study approach, this paper explores internal university decision-making on the government-supported student places funded by this block grant. It analyses who contributes to the decision-making process, the factors they consider, and how final decisions are made. Across all universities studied, a senior executive group …
University missions and financial incentives
Funding incentives are widely used to steer universities towards meeting policy objectives, but they do not always produce the expected outcomes. The headline policy of Australia’s Job-ready Graduates (JRG) university policy was the change to student fees, lower for priority ‘job ready’ disciplines and higher for others, to steer student course choices towards national priorities. JRG also significantly changed funding arrangements from a univers…
From global rankings to local responsibilities
Higher education governance has increasingly been examined through critical spatial theories that emphasise how spatiality is politically produced by and for the exercise of power. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of governmentality, this paper analyses how space and geographic entities are constituted through the policy, and rendered as specific sites through which political effects are embodied. Taiwan’s Higher Education Sprout Project provides an…
Political science (8 works) · Higher education (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Education policy (3 works) · Policy analysis (3 works)