Lessons from the California Master Plan
This issue questions the role of universities and critical thinking in the world today, alongside growing economism in higher education institutions. We discuss lessons learnt from the California Master Plan in higher education, and the state of Hong Kong’s higher education landscape 20 years after her return to China.
Student Mobility from Australia to the Indo-Pacific via the New Colombo Plan
The latest figures from the OECD show that there are currently more than 5 million internationally mobile students, and this number is projected to reach…
Who Teaches What Types of Students? Segmented Markets in Asian Higher Education
The Asian region has figured prominently in studies of international student migration, with scholars highlighting the rapid advancement of Asian universities and the growing influence…
How the Mission to Embrace Adult Learning is Changing Singapore’s Tertiary Landscape
“Old models are not working, new models are coming thick and fast, and we’re having to adjust and to keep up, because of technology and…
Malaysia’s National Language Policy and Graduate Employability
Malaysia’s goal is to transform itself by 2020 from the middle-income trap it is currently in, into a technologically savvy, export-driven and high income developed…
Researching Higher Education in Singapore
Higher education as a field of academic research became more developed and important in Singapore in the 1980s, when the city-state began placing more emphasis…
Current Trends and Challenges for the Future of Higher Education for Development in Southeast Asia
Higher education was a key element in the East Asian miracle, the success story of Asian giants such as Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.…
Universities Can Help Overcome Economic Nationalism
In an era when economic and trade nationalism is disrupting the multilateral world order, universities have a role to play in driving multinational crossborder collaborations,…
Access and Excellence in Higher Education: Lessons from the California Master Plan
Modern higher education can be said to have begun in the United States in the 1960s. Participation grew rapidly in the world’s first mass higher…
Hong Kong’s Higher Education: 20 Years After Handover
Twenty years after its retrocession to Chinese sovereignty, Hong Kong managed to develop more world-class universities than perhaps any other city in the world. How…