Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Strategic Responses to Globalization

Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Strategic Responses to Globalization / edited by Simon Marginson, Sarjit Kaur, Erlenawati Sawir.

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Marginson, Simon (Editor), Kaur, Sarjit (Editor), Sawir, Erlenawati (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Series:Higher Education Dynamics, 36
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Higher education.
International education .
Comparative education.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editors and authors
  • List of figures and tables
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Local, national, and global in the Asia-Pacific; Simon Marginson, Sarjit Kaur and Erlenawati Sawir
  • PART I. GLOBAL AND ASIA-PACIFIC PERSPECTIVES
  • 2. Asia-Pacific universities in the global space: Visions of university presidents; Simon Marginson
  • 3. The Confucian Model of higher education in East Asia and Singapore; Simon Marginson
  • 4. The disappearing role of education finance policies in higher education access: Panel data analysis of twenty-one Asia-Pacific countries in a global setting; Lijing Yang
  • 5. Transnational higher education in the Asia-Pacific region: From distance education to the branch campus; Christopher Ziguras and Grant McBurnie
  • 6. International student mobility in the Asia-Pacific: From globalization to regional integration?; Christopher Ziguras and Grant McBurnie
  • PART II. LOCAL ASIA-PACIFIC STRATEGIES
  • 7. Advanced global strategy in China: The case of Tsinghua; Rui Yang
  • 8. Negotiating globalization: The Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia; David Howes and David Ford
  • 9. Universiti Sains Malaysia: Its strategic response to globalization; Sarjit Kaur, Morshidi Sirat and Norpisah Mat Isa
  • 10. Globalization, resources and strategies: A comparison of Universitas Indonesia and the Australian National University
  • Simon Marginson and Erlenawati Sawir
  • PART III. NATIONAL ASIA-PACIFIC STRATEGIES
  • 11. Addressing the global challenges in higher education: The Malaysian strategic plan; Gurnam Kaur Sidhu and Sarjit Kaur
  • 12. Academics as agents of internationalization and literacy: Malaysian responses and future challenges: Koo Yew Lie and Vincent Pang
  • 13. The global schoolhouse: Governing Singapore’s knowledge economy aspirations; Ravinder Sidhu, Ho Kong Chong and Brenda Yeoh
  • 14. Strategies for higher education reform in Thailand; Nattuvud Pimpa
  • 15. National policies in skilled labour and the cross-border student market, with a focus on Vietnam; Cate Gribble
  • 16. Two-way flows of higher education students in mainland China in a global market: Trends, characteristics and problems; Mei Li and Yongjun Zhang
  • 17. The internationalization of Japanese higher education: Policy rebates and realities; Akiyoshi Yonezawa
  • 18. Internationalization of Japanese universities: The current status and future directions; Kazuhiro Kudo and Hiroko Hashimoto
  • 19. Higher education in Papua New Guinea: the need for a change towards globalization; Ravinder Rena_20. Global position and position-taking in higher education: The case of Australia: Simon Marginson
  •  PART IV. NEIGHBOURING CASES
  • 21. India amidst a global competition for its talent: A critical perspective on policy for higher and university education; Binod Khadria
  • 22. National and global challenges to higher education in Saudi Arabia: Current development and future strategies; Abdullah A. S. Al-Mubaraki
  • CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS
  • 23. Regional dynamism and regional inequality; Simon Marginson, Sarjit Kaur and Erlenawati Sawir
  • Index.

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