This 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 shifting. In less than two
decades the Asia-Pacific region has come to possess the largest and
fastest growing higher education sector on Earth. The countries of
East and Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific together enrol 50
million tertiary students, compared to 14 million in 1991, and will
soon conduct a third of all research and development. 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, and supported by families deeply committed to
education.
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. "Higher Education in
the Asia-Pacific: Strategic responses to globalization" provides an
authoritative survey of tertiary education in this diverse and
dynamic region. Its 23 chapters, written by authors from a dozen
different countries, focus successively on the Asia-Pacific as a
whole, the strategies of individual universities, and national
policies and strategies in response to the global challenge."
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