Higher Education in Asia Pacific: Quality and the Public Good (International and Development Education)

✍ Scribed by Terance William Bigalke, Deane E. Neubauer, International Forum on Higher Education 2020

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Series: International and Development Education
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The past two decades have witnessed a vast expansion of higher education in the Asia Pacific with education universally accepted as a necessary condition of economic growth.  Countries throughout the region have rapidly expanded access to higher education, often by loosening restrictions on the private sector to stimulate its provision. In the process, the status of higher education has shifted from a widely accepted public good to a commodity provided and purchased through market mechanisms. Expansion and privatization have created new concerns over the quality of education throughout the region. The essays in this volume underscore the fundamental interrelationships between quality, educational expansion, and the pervasive challenges of privatization.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Series Editors’ Introduction......Page 18
Acknowledgments......Page 20
1 Quality and the Public Good: An Inseparable Linkage......Page 22
2 The Growing Importance of the Privateness in Education: Challenges for Higher Education Governance in China......Page 36
3 Redefining Public and Private in Asia Pacific Higher Education......Page 54
4 Increasing Privatization of U.S. Higher Education: Forerunner or Deviant Case?......Page 70
5 Rankings and Quality—A European Perspective......Page 84
6 Future Directions for U.S. Higher Education Accreditation......Page 100
7 The Transformation of Quality Assurance in Higher Education in China......Page 120
8 Quality Assurance and Higher Education in Japan......Page 132
9 Quality Assurance in Higher Education: A Developing Country Perspective and Experience......Page 142
10 Quality Assurance in Higher Education: The Taiwan Experience......Page 154
11 Quality Assurance in Indonesian Higher Education......Page 170
12 The Challenges of Creating and Maintaining Higher Education Quality under Conditions of Rapid Economic Development in Thailand......Page 186
13 The Future Directions of Higher Education Quality Assurance in Korea......Page 202
14 Accreditation in the Philippines: A Case Study......Page 222
15 Constructing a General Framework for Quality Evaluation in Higher Education......Page 238
16 Doing Quality as Public Policy......Page 254
Appendix......Page 268
List of Contributors......Page 278
C......Page 284
H......Page 285
L......Page 286
P......Page 287
T......Page 288
W......Page 289