Thanks for an interesting analysis of a critical and longstanding issue.
I doubt your data can help pull out this issue but I wonder about bias based on country of origin and the perception of its reliability. Many years ago when on posting in Australia I met with a Canadian researcher who was looking for a means of meshing qualification tests for doctors. It seemed clear that across Australia, NZ, UK and Canada that there was about an 80% overlap in the subject matter of testing for new doctors. The thought was that if the three countries could bump that number up a bit then there would be an easy step to quick recognition of the qualifications of anyone passing the test in any of the countries.
Of course, an underlying assumption was that the quality of medical education in each country was at a level of reliability that a graduate passing the test could be assumed to be good enough to work in any of the four countries. I wonder though if a similar assumption would hold among the Colleges of Physicians in Canada for graduates of medical school in Pakistan, India, Cuba, and so on. Would something similar apply to engineers or other professions.
Moreover, it might be instructive to determine whether qualifications from the same country might be see differently depending on the racial identity of the graduate. Would racialized doctors from South Africa or the UK feel greater barriers exist from their while immigrant counterparts?
Thanks for an interesting analysis of a critical and longstanding issue.
I doubt your data can help pull out this issue but I wonder about bias based on country of origin and the perception of its reliability. Many years ago when on posting in Australia I met with a Canadian researcher who was looking for a means of meshing qualification tests for doctors. It seemed clear that across Australia, NZ, UK and Canada that there was about an 80% overlap in the subject matter of testing for new doctors. The thought was that if the three countries could bump that number up a bit then there would be an easy step to quick recognition of the qualifications of anyone passing the test in any of the countries.
Of course, an underlying assumption was that the quality of medical education in each country was at a level of reliability that a graduate passing the test could be assumed to be good enough to work in any of the four countries. I wonder though if a similar assumption would hold among the Colleges of Physicians in Canada for graduates of medical school in Pakistan, India, Cuba, and so on. Would something similar apply to engineers or other professions.
Moreover, it might be instructive to determine whether qualifications from the same country might be see differently depending on the racial identity of the graduate. Would racialized doctors from South Africa or the UK feel greater barriers exist from their while immigrant counterparts?