Higher Education in Asia/Pacific Quality and the Public Good

by Bigalke, Terance W.; Neubauer, Deane E.

• ISBN13: 9780230613232
• ISBN10: 0230613233
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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. This volume provides a framework to examine these challenges in the region and beyond.

Author Biography

Terance Bigalke is Director of Education at the East-West Center in Honolulu. He is a specialist in modern Southeast Asian history with a career spanning three decades in international education and development assistanc e of higher education. Recent publications include “Tana Toraja: Social History of an Indonesian People.”

Deane Neubauer is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, Manoa and Senior Consultant to the International Forum for Education 2020 at the East-West Center. He has a long standing interest in globalization and its affects across multiple aspects of government and policy.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Series Editors' Introduction	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Quality and the Public Good: An Inseparable Linkage	p. 1
The Growing Importance of the Privateness in Education: Challenges for Higher Education Governance in China	p. 15
Redefining Public and Private in Asia Pacific Higher Education	p. 33
Increasing Privatization of U.S. Higher Education: Forerunner or Deviant Case?	p. 49
Rankings and Quality-A European Perspective	p. 63
Future Directions for U.S. Higher Education Accreditation	p. 79
The Transformation of Quality Assurance in Higher Education in China	p. 99
Quality Assurance and Higher Education in Japan	p. 111
Quality Assurance in Higher Education: A Developing Country Perspective and Experience	p. 121
Quality Assurance in Higher Education: The Taiwan Experience	p. 133
Quality Assurance in Indonesian Higher Education	p. 149
The Challenges of Creating and Maintaining Higher Education Quality under Conditions of Rapid Economic Development in Thailand	p. 165
The Future Directions of Higher Education Quality Assurance in Korea	p. 181
Accreditation in the Philippines: A Case Study	p. 201
Constructing a General Framework for Quality Evaluation in Higher Education	p. 217
Doing Quality as Public Policy	p. 233
Appendix	p. 247
List of Contributors	p. 257
Index	p. 263
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