Private Higher Education in Asia : Changing the Dynamics of Privateness and Publicness.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

C. Levy, Daniel.

Contributor:

Chau, Quang.

Yonezawa, Akiyoshi.

Series:

Global Realities in Private Higher Education Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

As Asia alone holds the majority of the world's fast-expanding private higher education (PHE), this volume probes the character, diversity, and significance of Asian PHE.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Analyzing Private Higher Education in Asia

1.1 Preface: The World's Giant Private Higher Education Region

1.2 Purposes and Pursuits

1.2.1 Knowledge Building

1.2.2 Volume Coherence

1.2.3 Cross National Analysis

1.3 Geographical Scope

1.3.1 Sub-regions

1.3.2 Country Coverage

1.3.2.1 Expansive Variety

1.3.2.2 Younger versus Older PHE Sectors

1.4 Conceptualizing Comparisons

1.4.1 Typology

1.4.2 Degree and Shape of Distinctiveness

1.5 The Chapters

Notes

References

Chapter 2: Japan's Private Higher Education: Long-standing and Diverse Prominence under Demographic Pressure

2.1 Context

2.1.1 Introduction: Problem Statement and Purpose

2.1.2 Historical Pathways

2.2 Structures, Governance, and Functions

2.2.1 Autonomy and Independence

2.2.2 Structures and Governance

2.2.3 Internal and External Politics

2.3 Functions and the PHE Typology

2.3.1 Elite and Semi-Elite

2.3.2 Identity

2.3.3 Variations in Demand Absorbing Behavior

2.4 Blurring Public-Private Distinctions

2.4.1 Recognition of Public Roles of PHE under Welfare State Policies

2.4.2 Neoliberalism in Parallel with Public-Private Partnership

2.4.3 New Public Management

Dual Sector Application

2.5 Conclusion and Discussion

Chapter 3: South Korean Higher Education's Striking Private Sector and Private-Public Blends

3.1 Contextual Overview

3.1.1 Introduction

3.1.2 The Higher Education System

3.1.3 Development of PHE

3.2 Finance

3.2.1 Tuition Gap between Sectors

3.2.2 Government and Philanthropic Support

3.2.3 Role of Large Business Corporations

3.3 Governance: Private-Public Comparisons and Diversity in PHEIs.

3.4 Identity and Other Social Group-Oriented Private Institutions

3.4.1 Religious Institutions

3.4.2 Single-sex Institutions

3.4.3 International Universities

3.5 Elite Institutions

3.5.1 World-class Institutions

3.5.2 Semi-elite Institutions

3.6 Non-elite Institutions

3.6.1 Vocational Training, Junior Colleges, and Demand-Absorbing Institutions

3.6.2 Open and Online Institutions

3.7 Conclusion

Chapter 4: Profiling Chinese Private Higher Education

4.1 Background and Context

4.1.1 The Emergence and Cessation of PHE

4.1.2 The Development of PHE

4.1.3 Rapid Growth of PHE in the 2000s

4.1.3.1 Universities and Colleges

4.1.3.2 Rapid Growth

4.2 Forms of PHE

4.2.1 Minban and Independent Colleges

4.2.2 For-profit versus Nonprofit PHE

4.3 PHE Typology

4.3.1 The Non-elite Subsector's Demand-absorbing Type

4.3.2 Product-oriented Private Colleges

4.3.3 Semi-elite and Elite Private Institutions

4.4 Private-Public College Comparisons

4.5 Conclusion

Acknowledgment

Chapter 5: Sector Differentiation in Thai Higher Education: Private-Public and Private-Private Comparisons

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Unravelling the Journey of Private and Public Higher Education Development

5.2.1 Formidable Public Monopoly

5.2.2 A Dual-Sector System

5.2.3 Private-Public Dichotomy in Governance: External Control and Internal Administration

5.2.4 Private-Public Dichotomy in Finance: Sources, Allocation, and Impact

5.3 Exploring the Thai Context through the Typology of Private Higher Education

5.3.1 Identity Subsector: Religious Type

5.3.2 Elite Subsector: Semi-elite Type

5.3.3 Non-Elite Subsector

5.3.4 Demand-Absorbing

5.3.5 Product-Oriented

5.4 Conclusion: Embracing Diversity within the Complex Thai Higher Education Landscape.

Notes

Chapter 6: Shifting Sectoral Distinctiveness Patterns in Malaysian Higher Education: Private versus Public Alongside Private versus Private

6.1 Introduction

6.1.1 The Pre-1996 Context

6.1.2 Development of Private Higher Education

6.1.3 Structural Differentiation within the Private Sector

6.2 Public-Private Contrasts

6.2.1 Legislation and Policies

6.2.2 Institutional Governance and Management

6.2.3 Finance

6.2.4 Language of Instruction

6.2.5 Academic Programs

6.2.6 Students and Staff

6.2.7 Blurring of Public-Private

6.3 Private-Private Contrasts

6.3.1 For-profit and Nonprofit

6.3.2 The Identity Subsector

6.3.2.1 Ethnic and Religious

6.3.2.2 Women's

6.3.3 The Elite Subsector

6.3.4 The Non-elite Subsector

6.4 Conclusion

Chapter 7: Indonesia's Private Higher Education: Massive and Diverse

7.1 Introduction

7.1.1 Exploring Indonesia's PHE Origin and Chapter Overview

7.1.2 PHE Evolution

7.2 Comparing Private to Public

7.2.1 Enrollment Shares and Program Distributions by Program

7.2.2 Autonomy and Flexibility

7.2.3 Faculty

7.3 PHE Intrasectoral Distinctiveness: Private-private Differences

7.3.1 Identity and Related Group-Affiliated

7.3.1.1 Religious

7.3.1.2 Gender and Ethnic

7.3.1.3 Identity and Group Blurring

7.3.2 Semi-elite

7.3.3 Non-elite

7.4 Conclusion

Chapter 8: Dynamics of Distinctiveness and Diversity in Vietnam's Private Higher Education

8.1 Vietnam's Higher Education

8.2 Emergence of Private Higher Education in Vietnam

8.3 Sectoral Distinctiveness in Global Private Higher Education

8.4 Evolution of Higher Education's Public-Private Distinctiveness

8.4.1 The Transitional Period: From Đổi Mới to the mid-2000s

8.4.1.1 Insignificant Distinctiveness.

8.4.1.2 Counter-intuitive Distinctiveness

8.4.2 The Following Decade

8.4.3 The Mid-2010s to the Present

8.5 Public-Private Ambiguity

8.6 Diversity within Vietnam's Private Higher Education

8.6.1 Identity Institutions

8.6.2 Semi-elite Institutions

8.6.3 Elite-aspirant Institutions

8.6.4 Product-oriented and Demand-absorbing Institutions

8.6.5 Non-profit versus For-profit Institutions

8.6.6 Ownership-based Variations

8.7 Conclusion

Chapter 9: Conclusion: Typological Framework and Expanded Empirical Findings of Private Higher Education in Asia

9.1 Public-Private Distinctiveness: Significant but Declining

9.1.1 Finance

9.1.2 Mission

9.1.3 Governance

9.1.4 Legal Designation

9.2 Intrasectoral Distinctiveness

9.2.1 PHE Diversity by Subsectors and Types

9.2.1.1 Elite Subsector

9.2.1.2 Non-elite Subsector

9.2.1.3 Identity Subsector

9.2.1.4 Subsectors' Relative Size

9.2.2 For-Profit versus Nonprofit PHE

9.2.3 Public sector Diversity

9.3 Final and Future Words

Appendix: Tendencies of sectoral distinctiveness across seven countries

Note

Index.

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ISBN:

9781040381069

1-04-038101-4

1-003-30354-4

1-04-038106-5

9781003303541

OCLC:

1541770560