Introduction, Devesh Kapur, Lily Kong, Florence Lo, and David M. Malone I. History 1. History of Higher Education in Asia-Pacific, Deane Neubauer II. Goals, Growth, and Massification 2. From Elite Higher Education to Massification: The Asia-Pacific Experience, Malcolm Tight 3. Employment and Labour Markets, Roslyn Cameron and John Burgess 4. Productive Workers or Better Citizens?, Arnoud De Meyer III.
Who Learns? 5. Access, Prompilai Buasuwan and Arisara Leksansern 6. Gender in Higher Education in The Asia-Pacific Region: Vertical Progress, Horizontal Segregation, and a Leaky Pipeline, Elizabeth M. King IV. What: Content and Learning in Higher Education 7. The Relationship Between Credentials and Learning: A Focus on International Educational Value and Distinction, Johanna Waters 8. Liberal Arts and Sciences Education for the 21st Century in Asia, Mikiko Nishimura 9. STEM Field Demand and Educational Reform in Asia-Pacific Countries, Aki Yamada 10.
The Rankings Game, William Yat Wai Lo and Ryan M. Allen 11. Professional Education: Models and Issues, Sheng-Ju Chan and Hua-Chi Chou V. How and Who? 12. Quality Regulation in Higher Education in Asia-Pacific: Roles of Quality Assurance and National Qualification Frameworks, Angela Yung Chi Hou, I-Jung Grace Lu, Karen Hui Jung Chen, and Chao Yu Guo 13. Internationalisation and Education-Related Mobility in Asia-Pacific Universities, K.C. Ho, Ravinder Sidhu, and Brenda S.
A. Yeoh 14. Internationalization and Mobility: Providers, Academic Collaborators and Recognition of Qualifications, Christopher S. Collins and Alexander H. Jones 15. Education Hubs in the Asia-Pacific, Kris Olds 16. Open University Systems, Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria and Alexandra Ivanovic 17. MOOCs in Asia: Promise Unfulfilled or Promise Realised?, Helen Farley VI.
Costs: Who Pays? 18. Public Financing, Xi Wang and W. James Jacob 19. Private Philanthropy in Higher Education in Asia, Swee-Sum Lam 20. Student Loans in Practice: Benefits and Pitfalls of Loans Schemes in Asia, Adrian Ziderman VII. Consequences and Challenges 21. Returning Talent, Rennie J. Moon 22.
Asia as a Producer of Knowledge, Youngsuk Chi and John Van Orden 23. Asian Higher Education as Soft Power?, Jack T. Lee 24. Higher Education and Nationalism in the Asia-Pacific, Christopher D. Hammond 25. Lifelong Learning as a Globally Diffused Policy Discourse in Asia, Hongxia Shan and Zheng Ren VIII. Country Studies 26. China: Historical and Contemporary Development of Higher Education, Wenqin Shen and Wanhua Ma 27.
Elite Universities in China, Lan Xue, Zhen Yu, and Zhou Zhong 28. India: History and Thrust of Overall Higher Education and Research Patterns, Niraja Gopal Jayal 29. Private Universities in India: New Dawn or False Dawn?, Pratap Bhanu Mehta 30. Japan: The Changing Role of Higher Education for Nation-Building, Akiyoshi Yonezawa 31. Japan: Challenges in Internationalization of its Higher Education Sector, Miki Sugimura and Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi 32. Higher Education in the Republic of Korea, Jang Wan Ko 33. Singapore: The Making of Higher Education in an Asian Education Hub, S. Gopinathan and Michael H.
Lee 34. Higher Education in Hong Kong: Recent Developments and Challenges, Jin Jiang 35. Australia: History Versus Geography in an Evolving National System, Anthony Welch 36. Education for All? Higher Education at a Crossroads in Aotearoa New Zealand, Kathryn A. Sutherland and Stephen J. Marshall 37. Indonesia: The Politics of Equity and Quality in Higher Education, Chiara Logli and Hermin Indah Wahyuni 38. Higher Education in Malaysia, Chang Da Wan 39.
Privatized Higher Education in Thailand: In Pursuit of Legitimacy and Profitability, Prachayani Praphamontripong Kanwar and Florence Lo 40. Higher Education in Myanmar, Marie Lall, Camille Kandiko Howson, and Aye Aye Tun 41. Philippine Higher Education: A Case for Public-Private Complementarity in the Next Normal, Maria Cynthia Rose Bautista, Vicente Paqueo, and Aniceto Orbeta Jr.