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A new world-class university policy called the Designated National University scheme was introduced in Japan in 2017. Six national universities are now given a distinguished legal status, differentiating them from all other national universities, and are expected to be competitive with leading universities worldwide. However, the government expects the selected universities to be capable of generating their own income. In light of the uncertainty surrounding the highly complex mechanism linking knowledge activities at universities and industrial commercialization, this appears to be a risk-taking policy.

The author analyzes the background of the recent disputes on the relevance of humanities and social sciences at national public universities in Japan. Based on the analysis, several themes emerge, including long term governmental policies to prioritize STEM fields, and the difficulties of identifying the values of the humanities and social sciences in countries that are linguistically isolated in the age of globalization.

This chapter introduces an overview of quality assurance systems for higher education in Japan, including the requirements for establishing new educational programmes. It also provides information on the recent introduction of third-party evaluation of higher education institutions on a continual basis. Furthermore, it refers to Japan's approach to quality assurance for cross-border higher education based on the "territorial principle" and stresses the need for increased international co-operation to protect students from degree mills. (DIPF/Orig.).

Section 1: Setting the Stage -- Chapter 1: Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on the institutional fabric of Higher Education -- Section 2: The System's Responses to COVID-19 -- Chapter 2: Evidence, stakeholders and decision making: managing COVID-19 in Irish Higher education -- Chapter 3: New actors, administrative measures and conflicting agendas: The impact of the pandemic on internationalisation of higher education in Poland and Russia -- Chapter 4: Highlighting systemic inequalities: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on French Higher Education -- Chapter 5: Higher education institutions responses to COVID-19 in Uganda: Regulatory tools and adaptive institutions -- Section 3: Higher Education Institutions' Responses to COVID-19 -- Chapter 6: Higher Education in Brazil: Institutional actions for the retention of students in public and private sectors -- Chapter 7: Higher Education in Brazil: Institutional actions for the retention of students in public and private sectors -- Chapter 8: Internationalization of higher education in Argentina upon the arrival of Covid-19: Reactions and lessons from the perspective of International Relations Office -- Chapter 9: University-civic engagement in the time of the pandemic -- Chapter 10: Public Service Resilience in a post-COVID-19 world: The Case of Digital Transformation in Higher Education -- Chapter 11: Entrepreneurial universities: From research groups to spin-off companies in a time of COVID-19 -- Section 4: Actors' Responses to COVID-19 -- Chapter 12: Challenges, Opportunities, and Coping Strategies when Faced with the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Academics in Mainland China and Hong Kong -- Chapter 13: "We shouldn't let academia exhaust ourselves anymore!": Pandemic practices and the changing psychological contract in twenty-first century academia -- Chapter 14: Moving beyond policy on digital transformation: Perceptions of digital transformation of teaching by academic staff and students -- Chapter 15: Remote Universities? Impacts of COVID-19 as experienced by academic leaders in Finland between March 2020 and April 2021 -- Chapter 16: Post-COVID-19: Renegotiating the scope, role, and function of support and development for students in higher education across the globe -- Section 5: Taking Stock and Moving Forward -- Chapter 17: Epilogue: COVID-19 and the institutional fabric of higher education.

This open access book assesses how the Covid-19 pandemic caught higher education systems throughout the world by surprise. It maps out the responses of higher education institutions to the challenges and strategic opportunities brought about by the pandemic, and examines the effects such responses may have. Bringing together scholars and case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the book is both comparative and global in nature. It also brings together researchers from a variety of disciplinary fields, including political scientists, historians, economists, sociologist, and anthropologists. In doing so, the book fosters an inter-disciplinary dialogue and inclusive methodological approach for unpacking the complexities associated with modern higher education systems and institutions.

This book highlights recent education research on Japan based on sociological and other related approaches to historical developments and accomplishments. Written primarily by members of the Japan Society of Educational Sociology, it brings to light concerns and viewpoints that have grown out of the Japanese educational context. By focusing on uniquely Japanese educational research phenomena, the book offers international readers new insights and contributes to the international debate on education. It may help sociologists and social scientists outside Japan gain a deeper understanding of ongoing changes in education in Japan as well as its historical and structural contexts