ISBN:
9789400715004
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (X, 357p. 30 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
Higher Education Dynamics 36
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T.
Keywords:
Education, Higher
;
Education
;
Education
;
Education, Higher
Abstract:
Erlenawati Sawir
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Global and regional perspectives -- pt. 3. Asia-Pacific institutional strategies -- pt. 4. Asia-Pacific national strategies -- pt. 5. Neighbouring cases -- pt. 6. Concluding reflections.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-1500-4
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