• Introduction


• I. History


• 1: Deane Neubauer: History of Higher Education in Asia-Pacific


• II. Goals, Growth, and Massification


• 2: Malcolm Tight: From Elite Higher Education to Massification: The Asia-Pacific Experience


• 3: Roslyn Cameron and John Burgess: Employment and Labour Markets


• 4: Arnoud De Meyer: Productive Workers or Better Citizens?


• III. Who Learns?


• 5: Prompilai Buasuwan and Arisara Leksansern: Access


• 6: Elizabeth M. King: Gender in Higher Education in The Asia-Pacific Region: Vertical Progress, Horizontal Segregation, and a Leaky Pipeline


• IV. What: Content and Learning in Higher Education


• 7: Johanna Waters: The Relationship Between Credentials and Learning: A Focus on International Educational Value and Distinction


• 8: Mikiko Nishimura: Liberal Arts and Sciences Education for the 21st Century in Asia


• 9: Aki Yamada: STEM Field Demand and Educational Reform in Asia-Pacific Countries


• 10: William Yat Wai Lo and Ryan M. Allen: The Rankings Game


• 11: Sheng-Ju Chan and Hua-Chi Chou: Professional Education: Models and Issues


• V. How and Who?


• 12: Angela Yung Chi Hou, I-Jung Grace Lu, Karen Hui Jung Chen, and Chao Yu Guo: Quality Regulation in Higher Education in Asia-Pacific: Roles of Quality Assurance and National Qualification Frameworks


• 13: K.C. Ho, Ravinder Sidhu, and Brenda S.A. Yeoh: Internationalisation and Education-Related Mobility in Asia-Pacific Universities


• 14: Christopher S. Collins and Alexander H. Jones: Internationalization and Mobility: Providers, Academic Collaborators and Recognition of Qualifications


• 15: Kris Olds: Education Hubs in the Asia-Pacific


• 16: Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria and Alexandra Ivanovic: Open University Systems


• 17: Helen Farley: MOOCs in Asia: Promise Unfulfilled or Promise Realised?


• VI. Costs: Who Pays?


• 18: Xi Wang and W. James Jacob: Public Financing


• 19: Swee-Sum Lam: Private Philanthropy in Higher Education in Asia


• 20: Adrian Ziderman: Student Loans in Practice: Benefits and Pitfalls of Loans Schemes in Asia


• VII. Consequences and Challenges


• 21: Rennie J. Moon: Returning Talent


• 22: Youngsuk Chi and John Van Orden: Asia as a Producer of Knowledge


• 23: Jack T. Lee: Asian Higher Education as Soft Power?


• 24: Christopher D. Hammond: Higher Education and Nationalism in the Asia-Pacific


• 25: Hongxia Shan and Zheng Ren: Lifelong Learning as a Globally Diffused Policy Discourse in Asia


• VIII. Country Studies


• 26: Wenqin Shen and Wanhua Ma: China: Historical and Contemporary Development of Higher Education


• 27: Lan Xue, Zhen Yu, and Zhou Zhong: Elite Universities in China


• 28: Niraja Gopal Jayal: India: History and Thrust of Overall Higher Education and Research Patterns


• 29: Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Private Universities in India: New Dawn or False Dawn?


• 30: Akiyoshi Yonezawa: Japan: The Changing Role of Higher Education for Nation-Building


• 31: Miki Sugimura and Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi: Japan: Challenges in Internationalization of its Higher Education Sector


• 32: Jang Wan Ko: Higher Education in the Republic of Korea


• 33: S. Gopinathan and Michael H. Lee: Singapore: The Making of Higher Education in an Asian Education Hub


• 34: Jin Jiang: Higher Education in Hong Kong: Recent Developments and Challenges


• 35: Anthony Welch: Australia: History Versus Geography in an Evolving National System


• 36: Kathryn A. Sutherland and Stephen J. Marshall: Education for All? Higher Education at a Crossroads in Aotearoa New Zealand


• 37: Chiara Logli and Hermin Indah Wahyuni: Indonesia: The Politics of Equity and Quality in Higher Education


• 38: Chang Da Wan: Higher Education in Malaysia


• 39: Prachayani Praphamontripong Kanwar and Florence Lo: Privatized Higher Education in Thailand: In Pursuit of Legitimacy and Profitability


• 40: Marie Lall, Camille Kandiko Howson, and Aye Aye Tun: Higher Education in Myanmar


• 41: Maria Cynthia Rose Bautista, Vicente Paqueo, and Aniceto Orbeta Jr: Philippine Higher Education: A Case for Public-Private Complementarity in the Next Normal