The Search for New Governance of Higher Education in Asia

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Mok Ka-Ho

   Pages 1-11

3. Global Education, Heterarchies, and Hybrid Organizations

   • Stephen J. Ball

   Pages 13-27

4. Higher Education Transformation: Some Trends in California and Asia

   • John N. Hawkins

   Pages 29-47

5. Changing Governance in China’s Higher Education: Some Analyses of the Recent University Enrollment Expansion Policy

   • Yang Rui

   Pages 49-66

6. Incorporation of National Universities of Korea: Dynamic Forces, Key Features, and Challenges

   • Rhee Byung-Shik

   Pages 67-83

7. Governance of the Incorporated Japanese National Universities

   • Oba Jun

   Pages 85-102

8. Entrepreneurialism in Higher Education: A Comparison of University Governance Changes in Hong Kong and Singapore

   • Yat-Wai Lo William

   Pages 103-123

9. University Governance Structure in Challenging Times: The Case of Malaysia’s First APEX University (Universiti Sains Malaysia)

   • Morshidi Sirat, A. R. Ahmad

   Pages 125-137

10. Shifting Governance Patterns in Taiwanese Higher Education: A Recentralized Future?

    • Sheng-Ju Chan

    Pages 139-152

11. Southeast Asian Higher Education in the Global Knowledge System: Governance, Privatization, and Infrastructure

    • Anthony Welch

    Pages 153-170

12. Higher Education in India: Emerging Challenges and Evolving Strategies

    • Jandhyala B. G. Tilak

    Pages 171-191

13. Governance and the Governance of Higher Education in Vietnam

    • Jonathan London

    Pages 193-214

14. Back Matter

    Pages 215-220

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The present volume sets out in the wider context of globalization to critically examine how selected countries / societies in Asia have responded to the growing pressures of globalization for improving university performance in the global market place. In order to enhance the global competitiveness of their higher education systems, many governments in Asia have started comprehensive reforms and adopted new governance measures to enhance their universities. Incorporation and corporatization have been identified as important strategies to restructure and re-engineer university governance around the world. Contributors in this volume critically examine how the quest for world-class university status (as a global movement) has affected the way their universities are governed. Despite the popularity of management reforms and restructuring exercises in line with neoliberalism and managerialism worldwide, whether and how these reforms have actually transformed the heart of the public sector is still subject to debate. This book offers critical reflections on the governance change taking place in the Asian university systems and examines how far the restructuring of higher education governance through incorporation, privatization, and corporatization has really transformed the values and practices of those who work in the higher education sector.

• education
• freedom
• globalization
• Governance
• higher education
• research
• university

Ka Ho Mok is Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Associate Vice President (Research and International Exchange), and Chair Professor of Comparative Policy at The Hong Kong Institute of Education and Changjiang Chair Professor at Zhejiang University, China.

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