Private Higher Education in Asia

Changing the Dynamics of Privateness and Publicness
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-30124-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Global Realities in Private Higher Education

As Asia alone holds the majority of the world’s fast-expanding private higher education (PHE), this volume probes the character, diversity, and significance of Asian PHE.

Across seven national case studies, astride both developing and developed countries, older and newer HE systems, in entrenched democracies to creakier ones, to Communist rule, the volume systematically addresses a common PHE typology. This fosters volume coherence and cross-national comparison.The two most central comparisons within each country are private vs public and private versus private. Authors all identify significant differences between PHE and its longer standing public counterparts, though with variation in the degree and contours of blurring across sectors. Even more novel for scholarship on this subject matter, authors dig into patterns of differences and similarities across the now quite varied manifestations of PHE: religious, gender, nationally elite, increasingly business and job-oriented, international, nonprofit, for-profit etc. However rigorous the comparative frameworks contributing to volume coherence, authors integrate particulars of national historical and contemporary context wherever their national expertise leads them. This helps make the book appropriate for those generally interested in Asian affairs, especially in East and Southeast Asia. At the same, the private-public and private-private comparisons engage most key issues of top concern to those keenly interested in higher education generally: institutional autonomy versus government control, regulation, competition across institutions, management, effectiveness and innovation, faculty composition and roles, student composition and roles, accountability measures, challenges of quality assurance amid rapid expansion, the partial privatization of public institutions, tuition, internationalization, and so forth.

The volume will be valuable for all concerned with global PHE and HE overall. It should likewise be an important work for those studying, working in, or making policy within or for PHE in Asia.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

C Levy, Daniel

Chau, Quang

Yonezawa, Akiyoshi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction  2. Japan’s Private Higher Education: Longstanding and Diverse Prominence under Demographic Pressure  3. South Korean Higher Education’s Striking Private Sector and Private-Public Blends  4. Profiling Chinese Private Higher Education  5. Sector Differentiation in Thai Higher Education: Private-Public and Private-Private Comparisons  6. Shifting Sectoral Distinctiveness Patterns in Malaysian Higher Education: Private vs Public Alongside Private vs Private  7. Indonesia's Private Higher Education: Massive and Diverse  8. Dynamics of Distinctiveness and Diversity in Vietnam’s Private Higher Education  9. Conclusion: Analyzing Private Higher Education in Asia: Typological Framework and Expanded Empirical Findings

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Levy is Distinguished Professor, SUNY and the founder and director of PROPHE (Program for Research on Private Higher Education), a global scholarly network.

Quang Chau is a lecturer at University of Education – Vietnam National University Hanoi, a research associate at PROPHE (Program for Research on Private Higher Education), and a PhD candidate at the Department of Educational Policy & Leadership – SUNY Albany.

Akiyoshi Yonezawa is Professor and Vice Director of the International Strategy Office and Special Advisor to the President of Tohoku University, Japan.