Transformations in Higher Education Governance in Asia: Policy, Politics and Progress

In: Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance Ser.

Abstract

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 The Political Economy of Higher Education Governance in Asia: Challenges, Trends and Trajectories -- Introduction -- The False Logic of Economism: Economic Growth and Higher Education -- Ashley, Polanyi and the Dangers of Linear Forecasting -- The Political Economy of Higher Education Governance: Southeast Asia -- Indonesia: Systemic Failures and Enduring Obstacles -- Indonesia's Governance Legacies -- Challenges and Trends in Higher Education in Southeast Asia -- HE Governance and Academic Labour in Southeast Asia -- The Political Economy of Higher Education Governance: Northeast Asia -- Research Universities in Northeast Asia: Legacies, Hierarchies and Future Trajectories -- China: The Next Higher Education Superpower? -- Higher Education Policy in China: The Pursuit of World-Class Standing -- Bifurcation and Tensions in China's Higher Education Sector -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Changing Patterns in the Governance of Higher Education in Asia -- Introduction -- On Change -- Patterns of Governance Change: The Repurposing of the HEI -- Relocating Higher Education Within External Knowledge Economies -- Quality Assurance/Evaluation -- Rankings -- Income Generation -- Marketization of Higher Education -- Franchising of Higher Education Management -- Knowledge Production Management -- Access -- Repositioning Higher Education Institutions Within Broader Formal Governmental Authority -- Redefining Governance Roles Within HEIs -- Conclusion: Dimensions of Change -- References -- 3 Engaging Forms of ASEAN Higher Education: Regionalism and Governance -- Introduction -- Higher Education and the ASEAN -- Task-Specific Actors and Intersecting Functions -- ASEAN+3 -- Seameo-Rihed -- ASEAN University Network -- Higher Education Task Specificity in the ASEAN.