Download or read book Universities in the Knowledge Economy Transforming Higher Education in the Asia Pacific Rim and Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Universities in the Knowledge Economy written by Paul Temple and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universities are fundamental to the contemporary knowledge economy. They directly and indirectly support economic growth in both developing and advanced economies. In addition to their traditional teaching and research functions, they often also have important roles in supporting regional development and urban regeneration, as well as involvement in fostering international relations, in , cultural developments and in enhancing social cohesion. While higher education institutions in many countries are often assigned key roles in economic and social policy prescriptions, exactly what those roles are and how they should be carried out are often unclear. Universities and the Knowledge Economy provides a much-needed theoretical and empirical analysis of these functions, taking a critical look at the complex connections between knowledge creation, the knowledge economy, and higher education today. This volume: Brings together work on these topics by international experts, reporting and analysing recent policy developments and research Shows the significance of the university’s role in the knowledge economy, and the precise roles that it can play. Presents a range of studies showing how universities interact with other knowledge producers and users, and how these interactions can be managed to achieve the most effective applications of knowledge Universities are multi-faceted institutions that everywhere are accorded special status. Universities and the Knowledge Economy examines how these institutions carry our knowledge production and application, and how their distinctive characters affect what they do. . This title is of both intellectual and operational relevance, and would be suitable for those interested in higher education and policy and practice, and in the theory of higher education. Paul Temple is Reader in Higher Education Management and Co-Director of the Centre for Higher Education Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
Download or read book Higher Education Research and Knowledge in the Asia Pacific Region written by V. Meek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-01-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first books to focus on different national perspectives of knowledge production and research in higher education in the Asia-Pacific region, it compares, contrasts, and critically analyzes how policy in Asia-Pacific countries is furthering a supportive (or non-supportive) environment for the promotion of research within higher education.
Download or read book Higher Education in the Asia Pacific Region 4v written by V. Lynn Meek and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asia-Pacific Region is the most rapidly developing economic region in the world and many of the region¿s nations are becoming economic and political leaders on the world stage. Behind the social, political and economic growth of the region has been the recognition by many governments of the critical importance of higher education as a driver of the global knowledge economy. Over the past decade, not only has higher education expanded rapidly in nearly every country of the region, it has also undergone fundamental change and transformation. Many countries in the Asia-Pacific are committed to developing `world-class¿ universities to rival those of the Europe and North America and to substantially increase the proportion of their populations who have completed a higher education qualification. The scale of higher education development in countries such as China dwarfs that occurring elsewhere. In recent years there have been an increasing number of scholarly articles chronicling and analysing the transformation of Asia-Pacific higher education, and this is the first comprehensive collection of research publications, and only includes scholarly, peer-reviewed articles from leading researchers in the field of higher education policy and research. The region supplies the majority of the world¿s international higher education students, and countries like China are overtaking western countries in terms of research output and publications. This publication will appeal to a broad readership both within and without the region, to politicians and their advisers, higher education policy makers, institutional leaders, students of higher education and research policy, research managers and funding agencies, academics teaching courses on higher education, education aid agencies and NGOs, and the general higher education policy research community.
Download or read book Higher Education in the Asia Pacific written by Simon Marginson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-21 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey provides unprecedented scope and detail of analysis on higher education in the Asia-Pacific region. In this era of global integration, convergence and comparison, the balance of power in worldwide higher education is shifting. In less than two decades the Asia-Pacific region has come to possess the largest and fastest growing higher education sector on Earth. The countries of East and Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific together enrol 50 million tertiary students, compared to 14 million in 1991, and will soon conduct a third of all research and development. In China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Singapore, ‘world-class’ universities are emerging at breakneck pace, fostered by modernizing governments that see knowledge and skills as key to a future shaped equally by East and West, and supported by families deeply committed to education. But not all Asia-Pacific countries are on this path, not all reforms are effective, and there are marked differences between nations in levels of resources, educational participation, research, state controls and academic freedom. Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific: Strategic responses to globalization provides an authoritative survey of tertiary education in this diverse and dynamic region. Its 23 chapters, written by authors from a dozen different countries, focus successively on the Asia-Pacific as a whole, the strategies of individual universities, and national policies and strategies in response to the global challenge.
Download or read book Innovations in Knowledge and Learning for Competitive Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific written by Jouko Sarvi and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education institutions in Asia and the Pacific, modeled on industrial age thinking that demands excellence in routinized capacities, lack the ability to innovate and create new knowledge enterprises. The transition to a knowledge economy is affecting the purpose, content, pedagogy, and methodologies of higher education. Nontraditional stakeholders such as professional bodies, industry experts, think tanks, research institutes, and field experts/practitioners are now involved not only in planning but in providing higher education services. The traditional model of "knowledge versus skills" is no longer relevant. Higher education programs must consider lived experiences, contextual knowledge, and indigenous knowledge.
Download or read book The Emergent Knowledge Society and the Future of Higher Education written by Deane E. Neubauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of higher education is by no means fixed: it has evolved over time; different models of higher education co-exist alongside each other at present; and, worldwide, there are demands for higher education to change to better help support economic growth and to better fit chagning social and economic circumstances. This book examines, from an Asian perspective, the debates about how higher education should change. It considers questions of funding, and of who will attend universities, and the fundamental question of what universities are for, especially as the three key funcations of universities - knowledge creation through research, knowledge dissemination through teaching and service, and knowledge conservation through libraries, the disciplinary structuring of knowledge and in other ways - are increasingly being carried out much more widely outside universities in the new "knowledge society". Throughout, the book discusses the extent to which the countries of East Asia are developing new models of higher education, thereby better preparing themselves for the "new "knowledge society", rather than simply following old Western models.
Download or read book World Class Worldwide written by Philip G. Altbach and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nations with strong research universities are better able to compete in the international marketplace of ideas and innovation. Any country—especially in the developing world—striving to participate in the global knowledge economy must recognize the power of such institutions to transform society. In World Class Worldwide, analysts from developing and middle-income countries in Asia and Latin America explore their countries’ specific challenges in providing “world class” higher education. Philip G. Altbach, Jorge Balán, and their contributors combine current scholarship and practical experience in presenting a comprehensive discussion of the significant issues facing research universities in Mexico, China, India, and elsewhere. They address the special challenges of establishing and maintaining these institutions; the role of information technology; how research universities train leaders and foster scientific innovation; and the extent to which the private sector can and should be involved in funding and development.
Download or read book Redefining Asia Pacific Higher Education in Contexts of Globalization Private Markets and the Public Good written by Deane E. Neubauer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-18 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume addresses the dynamic global contexts redefining Asia Pacific higher education, including cross-border education, capacity and national birthrate profiles, pressures created within ranking/status systems, and complex shifts in the meanings of the public good that influence public education in an increasingly privatized world.
Download or read book Death of the Public University written by Susan Wright and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them ‘entrepreneurial’, ‘efficient’ and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue ‘excellence’ and ‘innovation’, many universities are struggling to maintain their traditional mission to be inclusive, improve social mobility and equality and act as the ‘critic and conscience’ of society. Drawing on a multi-disciplinary research project, University Reform, Globalisation and Europeanisation (URGE), this collection analyses the new landscapes of public universities emerging across Europe and the Asia-Pacific, and the different ways that academics are engaging with them.
Download or read book Death of the Public University written by Susan Wright and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them ‘entrepreneurial’, ‘efficient’ and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue ‘excellence’ and ‘innovation’, many universities are struggling to maintain their traditional mission to be inclusive, improve social mobility and equality and act as the ‘critic and conscience’ of society. Drawing on a multi-disciplinary research project, University Reform, Globalisation and Europeanisation (URGE), this collection analyses the new landscapes of public universities emerging across Europe and the Asia-Pacific, and the different ways that academics are engaging with them.
Download or read book Research Development and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education written by J. Hawkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research, Development, and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education critically examines recent policies and practices adopted by governments and universities in Asia Pacific in promoting research and development, innovation, and entrepreneurial activities between the universities, industry and business. Critical reflections upon the changing relationship among these stakeholders are offered, with comparative perspectives and international insights into how universities in Asia Pacific have handled the growing pressure for top university rankings and keen competition in the knowledge-based economy.
Download or read book Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy written by Kemal Grz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how the international mobility of students, scholars, programs, and institutions of higher education evolved over time, and the ways in which it is occurring in today?s global knowledge economy. Students and scholars leaving their homes in search of education and knowledge is not a new phenomenon. Kemal Grz discusses how the international mobility of students, scholars, programs, and institutions of higher education has evolved over time. He explores the contributions it has made to civilization, scientific and technological progress, and the ways in which it is occurring in today?s global knowledge economy. Kemal Grz is Former President of the Council of Higher Education of the Republic of Turkey and retired Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Middle East Technical University. In 2005, he was the first recipient of the Chancellor John W. Ryan Fellowship in International Education at the State University of New York.
Download or read book The Global University written by A. Nelson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engages a topic of pressing concern for government, business, and education leaders around the world: the race to establish 'world-class' universities. Some herald the globalization of higher education as the key to a dynamic and productive 'knowledge society.' Others worry that modern universities have come to resemble multinational corporations.
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Asia Pacific Higher Education written by Christopher S. Collins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to identify and explore the forces affecting higher education in the Asia Pacific region today. It includes a set of conceptually-rich organizing chapters followed by detailed country-specific studies that detail both the underlying dynamics of these forces and the manner in which they have affected specific countries. In this way, the chapters touch on the complex demographics of the region, how continued and continuous economic development impinges on higher education, and how neoliberalism has affected higher education across many dimensions. The volume also addresses the complex issues associated with cross border education and the daunting challenges of both national and cross-national quality assurance.
Download or read book Higher Education Regionalization in Asia Pacific written by J. Hawkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asia is rapidly developing a wide variety of regional organizations and interactive patterns, reflecting in large part its increasing role in the global economic and political engagements. Higher Education constitutes a distinct sphere of activity within this overall pattern of regionalization.
Download or read book Universities in the Knowledge Society written by Timo Aarrevaara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Springer is proud to announce that 'Universities in the Knowledge Society' has received the ASHE-CIHE award for Significant Research on International Higher Education. Congratulations to Timo Aarrevaara, Martin Finkelstein, Glen A. Jones, Jisun Jung and all contributors! This book explores the complex, multi-faceted relationships between national research and innovation systems and higher education. The transition towards knowledge societies/economies is repositioning the role of the university and transforming the academic profession. The volume provides a foundational introduction to the concepts of knowledge society and knowledge economy, and these concepts ground the detailed case studies of eighteen systems, located across five continents. Each case study was written by a leading expert in that jurisdiction, and provides a critical analysis of the research and development infrastructure, the role of universities, and the implications for the academic profession. The book describes how nations in various geographic regions and at various stages of economic maturity are restructuring their university systems to adapt to the new imperatives, and provides a cross-case analysis identifying common themes and distinctive features. In telling the story of higher education’s on-going global metamorphosis, the contributing authors place current developments in the context of the university’s historic evolution, survey the changing metrics that national governments are adopting to measure university performance, and describe a new international project, the Academic Profession in the Knowledge-based Society [APiKS] that involved a common survey of academics in more than twenty countries to take the pulse of developments “on the ground” while documenting the challenges confronting knowledge workers in the new economy.
