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Hanada, Shingo – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2013
A number of countries with public higher education systems have implemented privatisation policies. In Japan, the national government introduced the National University Corporation Act (NUCA) in 2004 and changed the legal status of national universities from that of government-owned public institutions to independent administrative agencies. Its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Governance, Higher Education
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Kariya, Takehiko – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
Any moves towards substantive equality in education must negotiate the contradictions between equality and efficiency. Equality of education comes about through both the widening of opportunity and the maintenance of educational quality, but in the context of limited resources, educational policy rarely serves both ends simultaneously. Regardless…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Education, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, 2012
The Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE) at Hiroshima University, through special funding by the Ministry of Education and Science in 2008, has been implementing a research project on the reform of higher education in the knowledge-based society of the 21st century. Research into the design of the future higher education system,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Administration, Governance, Postsecondary Education
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Kariya, Takehiko – Journal of Education and Work, 2011
The emergence of a global knowledge-based economy has given rise to drastic changes in both higher education and employment. On one hand, governments in advanced societies have launched policies to expand higher education to compete internationally in educating and attracting highly skilled workers. At the same time, both global economic…
Descriptors: Credentials, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
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Postiglione, Gerard A. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2005
How much is hegemony and how much is self-determination in the higher education systems in Southeast Asia? This paper argues that while the question of centre and periphery is still relevant to the analysis of international university systems, the analytical frameworks from which it has arisen may lose viability in the long term. Southeast Asian…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Self Determination