ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how the colleges and universities worked to produce graduates for foreign employers. It demonstrates how Philippine higher education institutions attempts to impose an ideal notion of flexibility, based on a "post-Fordist" model of production popularised after World War II. The chapter argues that school owners and administrators worked to predict multiple labour gaps in popular destination countries, quickly shifting academic manpower and resources to programmes that would produce the workers 'just in time' to take advantage of an existing labour gap overseas. It highlights the emergence of the flexible university, where higher education within migrant-sending nations like the Philippines face constant change, depending on the labour needs of wealthier nations across the world. The chapter also demonstrates how colleges and universities can also reshape universal ideas of neo-liberalism in line with local politics and individual interests, creating a different version of neo-liberal higher education, with its own problematic outcomes.
