Higher Education Access in the Asia Pacific

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Higher Education as a Human Right

   • Christopher S. Collins

   Pages 1-9

3. Education as a Praxis of Soul Consciousness: Insinuations of Liberation Pedagogies in Higher Education and Human Rights Discourse

   • Jeffrey Tangonan Acido

   Pages 11-21

4. Higher Education as a Symbol of Equal Rights in South Korea

   • Seonja Cha

   Pages 23-39

5. Democratization of Access and Quality in Post-conflict Timor Leste

   • Khoo Ying Hooi

   Pages 41-54

6. Higher Education as a Human Right in North Korea

   • River Byun, Robert J. Bethke

   Pages 55-75

7. History, Motives, and Achievement: A Critical Analysis of Chinese College Student Financial Aid Policy

   • Huaming Fang, Mengting Cao

   Pages 77-92

8. Higher Education in the Era of Post-massification with Extremely Low Fertility: A Case of Taiwan

   • Chih-Yuan Weng

   Pages 93-113

9. Political/Moral Dispositions and Bonus Points: An Examination of Access to Vietnamese Higher Education

   • Tu Thanh Le

   Pages 115-137

10. Higher Education Competences and HR: Human Resources or Human Rights in Korean University Curriculum

    • Hyo-sung Lee

    Pages 139-154

11. The Complexities and Intersectionality of Human Rights Issues in Asia-Pacific Higher Education

    • Prompilai Buasuswan

    Pages 155-163

12. Back Matter

    Pages 165-166

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This edited volume offers empirical, evaluative, and philosophical perspectives on the question of higher education as a human right in the Asia Pacific. Throughout the region, higher education has grown rapidly in a variety of ways. Price, accessibility, mobility, and government funding are all key areas of interest, which likely shape the degree to which higher education may be viewed as a human right. Although enrollments continue to grow in many higher education systems, protests related to fees and other equity issues continue to grow. This volume will include scholarly perspectives from around the region for a more extensive understanding of higher education as a human right in the Asia Pacific.

• human rights
• philosophy of education
• Comenius
• public investment and cultural values
• Western dominance
• cultural development
• Asian studies

• Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, USA

  Christopher S. Collins

• Faculty of Education, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

  Prompilai Buasuwan

Christopher S. Collins is Associate Professor of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University, USA.  He studies the function of higher education in society from a global perspective and has recently published multiple edited volumes on the Asia Pacific region with Palgrave Macmillan. 


Prompilai Buasuwan is Head of the Department of Education and Associate Professor in the Program of Educational Administration at Kasetsart University, Thailand. Her main research interests include quality of education, university and community engagement, internationalization of education, and educational policy analysis and evaluation. 

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