This volume seeks to identify and explore the forces affecting higher education in the Asia Pacific region today. It includes a set of conceptually-rich organizing chapters followed by detailed country-specific studies that detail both the underlying dynamics of these forces and the manner in which they have affected specific countries. In this way, the chapters touch on the complex demographics of the region, how continued and continuous economic development impinges on higher education, and how neoliberalism has affected higher education across many dimensions. The volume also addresses the complex issues associated with cross border education and the daunting challenges of both national and cross-national quality assurance.

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Table of contents:

Framing Essay Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Historical Context

John N. Hawkins

A Journey Back to the Center: Asian Higher Education in Global Context

Sheng-Ju Chan

Asian Higher Education: Achievements, Challenges, Prospects

Anthony Welch

Prospects for Higher Education in the Midst of Globalization

Deane E. Neubauer, et al.

Globalization and the Transformation of Asian Higher Education

Christopher Ziguras

Public Good in Asian Higher Education

Christopher S. Collins

Strategies for Higher Education in the Contemporary Era: Public-Private Partnerships and Regional Cooperation

Molly N.N. Lee

Regionalization of Higher Education in Asia: Functional, Organizational, and Political Approaches

Jane Knight

Regional Trends in Asian Higher Education

Molly N.N. Lee

Regionalization of Higher Education in Asia

Kazuo Kuroda

The International Branch Campus: Cloistered Community or Agent of Social Change?

Michael Lanford, et al.

China's Approach Toward HE Regional Cooperation with ASEAN

Wen Wen

Transformation of Higher Education Systems in the Dynamics of Contemporary Globalization: The Case of Japan

Miki Sugimura

Cross-Currents in Asian Higher Education

Edilberto C. Jesus

Prospects of Higher Education in the Asian Region with Specific Reference to China

Jinghuan Shi, et al.

Cultural Challenges Facing East Asian Higher Education: A Preliminary Assessment

Rui Yang

Can East Asian Universities Break the Spell of Hierarchy? The Challenge of Seeking an Inherent Identity

Akiyoshi Yonezawa

Reforms of University Governance and Management in Asia: Effects on Campus Culture

Molly N.N. Lee

The Driving Forces of Higher Education: Westernization, Confucianism, Economization, and Globalization

Christopher S. Collins, et al.

Higher Education Inequality in East and Southeast Asia

Promipilai Buasuwan, et al.

Higher Education in China: Massification, Accessibility, and Quality Issues

Yuchen Yang

Equity and Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific

Peter D. Hershock

Higher Education Capacity for What? Balancing Issues of Equity, Efficiency, Choice, and Excellence

W. James Jacob, et al.

Higher Education in Cambodia: Challenges to Promote Greater Access and Higher Quality

Yuto Kitamura

Quality Assurance in Asian Higher Education: Challenges and Prospects

Angela Yung Hou

Current Issues with Accreditation in the USA

Ralph A. Wolff

Impact of Globalization on Japanese Higher Education Policy: Examining Government Control and Quality Assurance

Reiko Yamada

After Massification and Response to Internationalization: Quality Assurance of Higher Educaitonin Taiwan and Hong Kong

Ka Ho Mok, et al.

The Paradigm Shift on Quality Assurance of Higher Education in Taiwan

Sheng Yao Cheng, et al.

Massification of Chinese Higher Education: Policies and Practices

Ma Wanhua

Higher Education in Malaysia

Morshidi Sirat, et al.

Pushing for Globalized Higher Education in the Philippines: Advances and Challenges

Serafin L. Ngohayon, et al.

Situating Higher Education in China: From Universal History to the Research Paradigm

Yuan Xun

Thai Higher Education

Ekaphong Lauhathiansind, et al.

Higher Education in India: Against the Backdrop of the Evolving Political Economy

Shyam Menon

Singapore: A Small Nation with Big Dreams of Being a Global Schoolhouse

Eng Thye Tan

Higher Education in Indonesia: Contemporary Challenges in Governance, Access, and Quality

Chiara Logli

Australian Higher Education

Sarah French, et al.

New Zealand Universities: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Globalizing Higher Education

Fracis L. Collins, et al.

Higher Education Institutions and ASEAN: Current Trends and Implications for Future Innovation and Change

Peter Tan Keo, et al.

The Rapid Growth of Higher Education in South Korea: Achievements, Dilemmas, and Resolutions

Minho Yeom

Vietnam: The Demand for Change and the Direction Taken

Phuong Lan Bui

Higher Education in Kazakhstan

Lyudmila Kovaleva, et al.

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