1st Edition
The Emergent Knowledge Society and the Future of Higher Education Asian Perspectives
1. Introduction - Deane Neubauer 2. Information and innovation in a global knowledge society: Implications for higher education - Peter Hershock 3. The transformation of research in the knowledge society: the U.S. experience - John Hawkins 4. Aligning universities and higher education systems with the challenges of emergent knowledge economies - Richard James 5. What should we teach? Making higher education curricular choices in an era of rapidly expanding knowledge - Hazman Shah and Viyayan Abdullah 6. Higher education knowledge economy: Challenges for Taiwan - Hsiou-Hsia Tai 7. The role of universities amidst the challenges of the knowledge society - Charas Suwanwela 8. Linking graduate and undergraduate education in the knowledge society: exploring key quality issues from a Japanese perspective - Akira Akimoto 9. Quality, structure and change: the response of the Malaysian higher education system to challenges of the knowledge society - Dato Syed Hussein, Balakrishna Vassu and Zita Mohd Fahmi 10. Quality assurance issues in Korean higher education: The challenges of an emergent knowledge society - Hyun-Chong Lee 11. Asserting brain power and expanding educational services: Searching for new governance and regulatory regimes in Singapore and Hong Kong - Ka Ho Mok and Kok Chung Ong 12. Higher education counseling: Keeping pace with rapidly changing learning environments - Rose Marie Salazar-Clemena 13. Higher education and gender issues in the knowledge economy: Who studies what, why and where? - Karuna Chanana 14. The end of the university as we know it? - Deane Neubauer 15. The changing social ecology of higher education - Deane Neubauer
Biography
Deane Neubauer currently serves as Senior Advisor to the International Forum for Education 2020 at the East-West Center, and as Senior Research Fellow to the Globalization Research Center, University of Hawaii, Manoa. He recently co-edited Access, Capacity and Equity in Asia Pacific Higher Education.
