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Changing Patterns of Higher Education Governance Under Neoliberalism: Global and East Asian Perspectives

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Higher Education Governance in East Asia

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This study classified higher education governance across 20 higher education systems. Six higher education systems are from East Asia and the other 14 systems from the other five continents. According to a cluster analysis and profiling analysis, this study found that most higher education systems are converging around managerial governance where institutional managers hold stronger power than other actors such as state or academics. However, the governance patterns also differ by fields of works (finance, personnel, and academic fields). This study also found that the six East Asian systems are equally distributed in each of “Bureaucratic Governance” (China and Malaysia), “Managerial Governance” (Korea and Hong Kong), and “Collegial Governance” (Japan and Taiwan). This study also predicts the convergence might continue in the future although the institutionalization process might differ depending on historical and socio-political contexts of each system.

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A draft of this chapter was presented at the 48th Annual Conference of the Japan Educational Administration Society (Oct. 12, 2013, Kyoto University, Japan).

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Shin, J.C., Kim, Y. (2018). Changing Patterns of Higher Education Governance Under Neoliberalism: Global and East Asian Perspectives. In: Shin, J. (eds) Higher Education Governance in East Asia. Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2469-7_13

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