University Restructuring in East Asia: Trends, Challenges and Prospects

Abstract

This concluding article aims to pull together the analysis undertaken in the preceding articles in this special issue. By sketching an overview of the university reforms and developments revealed in the sectoral articles, it draws out the trends of university restructuring in East Asia. It then projects the significances of these trends in terms of cautions to be raised. Finally, the article provides some comments on the ways the university sector in East Asia moves forward.

Psychology and culture: exploring clinical psychology in Australia and the Malay Archipelago

“…University education serves an important function in preparing students to address societal needs (Altman, 1996;Chan & Lo, 2008;Chiang, 2012). However, psychology, including clinical psychology, has always been part of society: its ideas and practices cannot be separated from the culture(s) from which they originate and in which they are practiced.…”

Similar Agendas, Diverse Strategies: The Quest for a Regional Hub of Higher Education in Hong Kong and Singapore

“…This provides a strong rationale for governments to take one intervention or another to shape the higher education arena. In the case of Hong Kong and Singapore, owing to the traditional Asian culture of compliance with the authorities, most government interventions do not cause serious conflicts between governments and higher education institutions (Petersen and Currie, 2008;Chan and Lo, 2008).…”

“…In East Asia, competition is keen and pressure is high. But, the disappearance of boundaries between higher education systems also provides a chance to change the global educational landscape from a 'centre-periphery' pattern to a 'multi-centres' one (Altbach, 2002;Chan and Lo, 2008). This is the impetus for the quest for 'world-class' university in many countries and economies, such as China, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.…”

Strategie umiędzynarodowienia uczelni wyższych — wyzwania przyszłości. Studium przypadku Wydziału Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politologicznych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

“…Ciekawe podejście zaproponował także S. Vincent-Lancrin 11 , który wyróż-nił cztery typy uwarunkowań i strategii internacjonalizacji, takie jak: 1) wzajemne zrozumienie między kulturami, 2) dążenie do doskonałości i konkurowanie o talenty, 3) generowanie dodatkowych przychodów, 4) rozwój uczelni.…”