Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Strategic Responses to Globaliz
This survey provides unprecedented scope and detail of analysis on higher education in the Asia-Pacific region. In this era of global integration, convergence and comparison, the balance of power in worldwide higher education is shifting. In less than two
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HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS VOLUME 36 Series Editors Peter Maassen, University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Johan Muller, Graduate School of Humanities, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Editorial Board Alberto Amaral, CIPES and Universidade do Porto, Portugal Akira Arimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan Nico Cloete, CHET, Pretoria, South Africa David Dill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Jürgen Enders, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Patricia Gumport, Stanford University, USA Mary Henkel, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom Glen Jones, University of Toronto, Canada
SCOPE OF THE SERIES Higher Education Dynamics is a bookseries intending to study adaptation processes and their outcomes in higher education at all relevant levels. In addition it wants to examine the way interactions between these levels affect adaptation processes. It aims at applying general social science concepts and theories as well as testing theories in the field of higher education research. It wants to do so in a manner that is of relevance to all those professionally involved in higher education, be it as ministers, policy-makers, politicians, institutional leaders or administrators, higher education researchers, members of the academic staff of universities and colleges, or students. It will include both mature and developing systems of higher education, covering public as well as private institutions.
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Simon Marginson • Sarjit Kaur Erlenawati Sawir Editors
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Editors Prof. Simon Marginson Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) University of Melbourne 715 Swanston Street 3010, Victoria Australia [email protected]
Sarjit Kaur English Studies Section, School of Humanities Universiti Sains Malaysia Penang Malaysia [email protected]
Erlenawati Sawir Central Queensland University International Education Research Centre Level 8, 123 Lonsdale Street 3800, Victoria Australia [email protected]
ISSN 1571-0378 ISBN 978-94-007-1499-1 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1500-4 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1500-4 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011932792 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
‘We can be heroes Just for one day … ’ ~Heroes, David Bowie, 19771
These are the great times of higher education in Asia-Pacific and especially of its signature institution,
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