1st Edition
Emigration, Employability and Higher Education in the Philippines
1. Schooling in the Migrant-sending Country
• Education and Emigration
• The Case of the Philippines
• Sites for Convergence: A Reflection on Method
• Overview of Chapters
2. The Making of Export-oriented Education
• From Excess to Employability
• Private Enterprise and the ‘School Business’
• Staying Ahead of the Competition
• Addressing Employer Needs
• Education Problems for the Labour-exporting State
3. The Flexible University
• Within the Migrant Labour Commodity Chain
• Flexible Faculty
• Flexible Spaces
• Coping and Adjusting
4. The Burden of Producing the Global Filipino Nurse
• Making Sense of Nurse Migration
• Knowledge, Autonomy, and Professional Values
• Professional Problems
• Global Market, Local Burdens
5. Learning to Labor for Low Wage Hotel Work
• Migrants without Class
• Defining Class
• Setting Students Apart
• Learning to Start from the Bottom
• Maintaining Class Hierarchies
6. The Migration Trap
• Investing in Employability
• Caught in the Migration Trap
• Stuck in an Opportunity Trap
• The Purpose of Higher Education
7. Conclusion
• Education in Flux
• What are schools for?
Biography
Yasmin Y. Ortiga is a Lecturer at the College of Alice and Peter Tan, National University of Singapore.
This is a highly important and timely study on the investment of Philippine students in higher education in their home country who intend to gain an economic return in the global labour market. As the book eloquently illustrates, the expectation is quite different from the reality. This has major long-term ramifications for the viability of the Philippines training and exporting talent, for the many host countries who are seeking to attract talent from the Philippines and for the experiences of this large volume of skilled migrants. – Dr William S. Harvey, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter Business School
