Private Higher Education in Asia
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 de...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1741472026-03-19T14:52:38Z Private Higher Education in Asia Yonezawa, Akiyoshi Chau, Quang C. Levy, Daniel Yonezawa, Akiyoshi Higher education policy Institutional autonomy Education privatization Comparative education studies Quality assurance frameworks Nonprofit education sector Governance of private universities in Asia Profit Access Governance Japan South Korea India Public sector Akiyoshi Yonezawa Private Higher education PROPHE Privatization Philippines Malaysia Private funding Demographics Higher education Distinctiveness Vietnam Southeast Asia Private sector Program for Research on Private Higher Education Asia Policy Taiwan Thailand PHE Public Quality Market Sector China Borders Quang Chau Daniel Levy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy 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. 2026-03-19T14:52:37Z 2026-03-19T14:52:37Z 2026-03-02T18:29:45Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111226 9781003303541 9781032301242 9781032301259 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/174147 eng Global Realities in Private Higher Education open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/111226/1/9781003303541.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003303541 10.4324/9781003303541 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781003303541 9781032301242 9781032301259 Routledge 1 New York open access |
| spellingShingle | Higher education policy Institutional autonomy Education privatization Comparative education studies Quality assurance frameworks Nonprofit education sector Governance of private universities in Asia Profit Access Governance Japan South Korea India Public sector Akiyoshi Yonezawa Private Higher education PROPHE Privatization Philippines Malaysia Private funding Demographics Higher education Distinctiveness Vietnam Southeast Asia Private sector Program for Research on Private Higher Education Asia Policy Taiwan Thailand PHE Public Quality Market Sector China Borders Quang Chau Daniel Levy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy Yonezawa, Akiyoshi Private Higher Education in Asia |
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| topic | Higher education policy Institutional autonomy Education privatization Comparative education studies Quality assurance frameworks Nonprofit education sector Governance of private universities in Asia Profit Access Governance Japan South Korea India Public sector Akiyoshi Yonezawa Private Higher education PROPHE Privatization Philippines Malaysia Private funding Demographics Higher education Distinctiveness Vietnam Southeast Asia Private sector Program for Research on Private Higher Education Asia Policy Taiwan Thailand PHE Public Quality Market Sector China Borders Quang Chau Daniel Levy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy |
| topic_facet | Higher education policy Institutional autonomy Education privatization Comparative education studies Quality assurance frameworks Nonprofit education sector Governance of private universities in Asia Profit Access Governance Japan South Korea India Public sector Akiyoshi Yonezawa Private Higher education PROPHE Privatization Philippines Malaysia Private funding Demographics Higher education Distinctiveness Vietnam Southeast Asia Private sector Program for Research on Private Higher Education Asia Policy Taiwan Thailand PHE Public Quality Market Sector China Borders Quang Chau Daniel Levy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy |
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