Pursuing Quality and Equity of Higher Education: A Review of Policies and Practices in East Asia

Autor/inn/en	Peng, Samuel S.; Wang, Li-Yun
Titel	Pursuing Quality and Equity of Higher Education: A Review of Policies and Practices in East Asia
Quelle	In: New Directions for Institutional Research, (2008), S.25-42 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0271-0579
DOI	10.1002/ir.276
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Private Colleges; Foreign Countries; Human Resources; Access to Education; Educational Policy; Educational Development; Role of Education; Educational Change; Accountability; Educational Quality; Government Role; Educational Practices; Educational Trends; Educational Finance; Equal Education; Institutional Research; College Outcomes Assessment; Asia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Privathochschule; Ausland; Humankapital; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsentwicklung; Bildungsauftrag; Bildungsreform; Verantwortung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsfonds; Institutionelle Forschung; Asien
Abstract	The condition of higher education is an important indicator of a nation's competitiveness in the modern knowledge-based world economy. Higher education builds up a nation's human resources by equipping students with advanced knowledge, professional skills, and critical and creative thinking ability. Higher education institutions are significant, thriving places where new knowledge and technology, which are both underwriters and catalysts for a nation's economic growth and competitiveness, are generated. For these reasons, over recent decades most nations around the world have devoted great efforts to development of their higher education systems. East Asia is a case in point. Its higher education system has been greatly expanded since World War II and the results are impressive, as reflected in the growth in the number of private colleges and universities. However, expansion of higher education has raised some new issues, which are discussed in this article. To address these issues, East Asian governments as well as individual institutions have initiated various policies and reform programs in recent years. This article presents a review of those policies and programs. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10