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Higher Education in Asia/Pacific

Quality and the Public Good

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Terance W. Bigalke
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  2. Deane E. Neubauer
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Part of the book series: International and Development Education (INTDE)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Quality and the Public Good: An Inseparable Linkage

    • Terance W. Bigalke, Deane E. Neubauer
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Growing Importance of the Privateness in Education: Challenges for Higher Education Governance in China

    • Ka Ho Mok
    Pages 15-32

  4. Redefining Public and Private in Asia Pacific Higher Education

    • Molly Lee, Deane E. Neubauer
    Pages 33-47

  5. Increasing Privatization of U.S. Higher Education: Forerunner or Deviant Case?

    • Terance W. Bigalke
    Pages 49-62

  6. Rankings and Quality—A European Perspective

    • Gero Federkeil
    Pages 63-78

  7. Future Directions for U.S. Higher Education Accreditation

    • Ralph A. Wolff
    Pages 79-98

  8. The Transformation of Quality Assurance in Higher Education in China

    • Jinghuan Shi
    Pages 99-110

  9. Quality Assurance and Higher Education in Japan

    • Shinichi Yamamoto
    Pages 111-120

  10. Quality Assurance in Higher Education: A Developing Country Perspective and Experience

    • V. S. Prasad
    Pages 121-131

  11. Quality Assurance in Higher Education: The Taiwan Experience

    • (Kent) Sheng Yao Cheng
    Pages 133-148

  12. Quality Assurance in Indonesian Higher Education

    • M. K. Tadjudin
    Pages 149-164

  13. The Challenges of Creating and Maintaining Higher Education Quality under Conditions of Rapid Economic Development in Thailand

    • Suchart Muangkeow
    Pages 165-179

  14. The Future Directions of Higher Education Quality Assurance in Korea

    • Keunwoo Lee
    Pages 181-199

  15. Accreditation in the Philippines: A Case Study

    • Victor Ordonez, Regina M. Ordonez
    Pages 201-215

  16. Constructing a General Framework for Quality Evaluation in Higher Education

    • Jinghuan Shi, Deane E. Neubauer
    Pages 217-232

  17. Doing Quality as Public Policy

    • Deane E. Neubauer
    Pages 233-245

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 247-268
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About this book

Expansion and privatization have created new concerns over the quality of education throughout the Asia/Pacific region. This volume provides a framework to examine these challenges in the region and beyond.

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"Bigalke and Neubauer address the important topic of quality of education in Asian higher education, which has garnered substantial interest among policy makers, academics, and institutions in countries throughout the region. The collection examines how rapidly higher education in the Asia/ Pacific region has been changing over the past decades and brings readers a broader view in this important area." - Angela Yung-chi Hou, Research Fellow and Director of International Exchange, Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan and Professor, Fu Jen Catholic University

About the authors

Deane E. Neubauer is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA and Senior Advisor to the International Forum for Education program at the East-West Center, Honolulu, USA.

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