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Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Marginson • Kaur • Sawir Eds. Higher Education Dynamics 36 Simon Marginson Sarjit Kaur Erlenawati Sawir Editors Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Strategic Responses to Globalization 1 is survey provides unprecedented scope and detail of analysis on higher education in the Asia-Pacific region. In this era of global integration, convergence and comparison, the balance of power in worldwide higher education is shiſting. In less than two decades the Asia-Pacific region has come to possess the largest and fastest growing higher education sector on Earth. In China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Singapore, ‘world-class’ universities are emerging at breakneck pace, fostered by modernizing governments that see knowledge and skills as key to a future shaped equally by East and West. But not all Asia-Pacific countries are on this path, not all reforms are effective, and there are marked differences between nations in levels of resources, educational participation, research, state controls and academic freedom. is volume, written by authors from a dozen different countries, focuses successively on the Asia-Pacific as a whole, the strategies of individual universities, and national policies and strategies in response to the global challenge. “A critical topic. e editors are as well versed as anyone on the issues and have assembled a superb group of authors to analyze the challenges that confront countries and universities in the age of globalization” Prof. William G. Tierney, Director, Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, University of Southern California, USA “Very timely. Key to understanding the old and new powers in the Asia-Pacific and makes a major contribution in identifying the factors of success in higher education” Prof. Jürgen Enders, Director, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, University of Twente, Netherlands “No previous book has made such an in-depth analysis of the issues concerning higher education in Asia-Pacific - and with so many prominent authors, from diversified backgrounds” Prof. Futao Huang, Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan “A comprehensive volume filled with thoughtful analysis” Prof. Glen A. Jones, University of Toronto, Canada Higher Education Dynamics 36 Simon Marginson · Sarjit Kaur · Erlenawati Sawir Editors Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Strategic Responses to Globalization 9 789400 714991 isbn 978-94-007-1499-1 Education
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Higher Education in the Asia-Pacifi c Strategic Responses to Globalization
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Th is survey provides unprecedented scope and detail of analysis on higher education in the Asia-Pacifi c region. In this era of global integration, convergence and comparison, the balance of power in worldwide higher education is shift ing. In less than two decades the Asia-Pacifi c region has come to possess the largest and fastest growing higher education sector on Earth. In China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Singapore, ‘world-class’ universities are emerging at breakneck pace, fostered by modernizing governments that see knowledge and skills as key to a future shaped equally by East and West.
But not all Asia-Pacific countries are on this path, not all reforms are effective, and there are marked diff erences between nations in levels of resources, educational participation, research, state controls and academic freedom. Th is volume, written by authors from a dozen diff erent countries, focuses successively on the Asia-Pacifi c as a whole, the strategies of individual universities, and national policies and strategies in response to the global challenge.
“A critical topic. Th e editors are as well versed as anyone on the issues and have assembled a superb group of authors to analyze the challenges that confront countries and universities in the age of globalization”
Prof. William G. Tierney, Director, Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis,
University of Southern California, USA
“Very timely. Key to understanding the old and new powers in the Asia-Pacifi c and makes a major contribution in identifying the factors of success in higher education”
Prof. Jürgen Enders, Director, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies,
University of Twente, Netherlands
“No previous book has made such an in-depth analysis of the issues concerning higher education in Asia-Pacific - and with so many prominent authors, from diversifi ed backgrounds”
Prof. Futao Huang, Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan
“A comprehensive volume fi lled with thoughtful analysis” Prof. Glen A. Jones, University of Toronto, Canada
Higher Education Dynamics 36
Higher Education in the Asia-Pacifi c Strategic Responses to Globalization
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isbn 978-94-007-1499-1
Higher Education in the Asia-Pacifi c Strategic Responses to Globalization
1
Th is survey provides unprecedented scope and detail of analysis on higher education in the Asia-Pacifi c region. In this era of global integration, convergence and comparison, the balance of power in worldwide higher education is shift ing. In less than two decades the Asia-Pacifi c region has come to possess the largest and fastest growing higher education sector on Earth. In China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Singapore, ‘world-class’ universities are emerging at breakneck pace, fostered by modernizing governments that see knowledge and skills as key to a future shaped equally by East and West.
But not all Asia-Pacific countries are on this path, not all reforms are effective, and there are marked diff erences between nations in levels of resources, educational participation, research, state controls and academic freedom. Th is volume, written by authors from a dozen diff erent countries, focuses successively on the Asia-Pacifi c as a whole, the strategies of individual universities, and national policies and strategies in response to the global challenge.
“A critical topic. Th e editors are as well versed as anyone on the issues and have assembled a superb group of authors to analyze the challenges that confront countries and universities in the age of globalization”
Prof. William G. Tierney, Director, Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis,
University of Southern California, USA
“Very timely. Key to understanding the old and new powers in the Asia-Pacifi c and makes a major contribution in identifying the factors of success in higher education”
Prof. Jürgen Enders, Director, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies,
University of Twente, Netherlands
“No previous book has made such an in-depth analysis of the issues concerning higher education in Asia-Pacific - and with so many prominent authors, from diversifi ed backgrounds”
Prof. Futao Huang, Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan
“A comprehensive volume fi lled with thoughtful analysis” Prof. Glen A. Jones, University of Toronto, Canada
Higher Education Dynamics 36
Higher Education in the Asia-Pacifi c Strategic Responses to Globalization
9 7 8 9 4 0 0 7 1 4 9 9 1
isbn 978-94-007-1499-1
