Country Competitiveness Relationship with Higher Education Indicators

Santos Lopez-Leyva; Gary Rhoades

doi:10.4067/S0718-27242016000400007

Authors

Santos Lopez-Leyva College of Economics and International Relations, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Campus Tijuana. Tijuana, Baja California ORCID 0000-0002-8463-4718
Gary Rhoades Center for the Study of Higher Education, Department of Educational Policy Studies and Practice, College of Education, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-27242016000400007

Abstract

This paper reports the performance of global competitiveness and higher education competitiveness between two groups of countries. The first group is formed by four Asian countries; the second one by four Latin American countries. Indicators from the World Economic Forum 2007-2015 are compared. The indicators with the nearest proximity were found in the management quality of the universities, where there was only a five-point difference in favor of the Asian group. The indicator with the widest gap came from the quality of math and sciences education where we found a difference of 104 points. This is congruent with the results of PISA 2012, which showed a difference of 152 points in math.