The Quest for Entrepreneurial Universities in East Asia

by Mok, Ka Ho

• ISBN13: 9781137322104
• ISBN10: 1137322101
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-12-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

With the rise of the knowledge economy, universities are under pressure to embrace not just their traditional missions of teaching and research but a third mission of serving economic and social development. This book examines the major strategies that governments in East Asia have adopted to promote this kind of innovation in the education sector and investigates their strategies for enhancing the international competitiveness of their national higher education systems. Mok delves into how academic programs in East Asia have become "transnational," with everything from curriculum design and approaches to learning to strategies for research development designed with an eye to competition in the global economy.

Author Biography

Ka Ho Mok is Chair Professor of Comparative Policy for the Department of Asian and Policy Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He is also Changjiang Chair Professor of Zhejiang University in China, a national chair professorship conferred by the Ministry of Education in 2010. He is currently Chairman of the East Asian Social Policy research network, Chairman of the Hong Kong Educational Research Association, and President of the Hong Kong Sociological Association.