Full Description
This edited volume examines the importance of quality issues in contemporary higher education systems in the Asia Pacific. Part One foregrounds relevant discussions of `quality' within today's globalized, interconnected, and complex higher education systems while Part Two focuses on selected universities in the Asia Pacific region. Chapter contributors discuss how quality issues and quality assurance mechanisms are implemented in their situation-specific systems. Part Three extends the research of higher education quality assurance in Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) and the diverse international student body in the Australian higher education system. The conclusion chapter discusses a typology of methods used by higher education systems in establishing effective quality assurance mechanisms.
Contents
Chapter 1. Creating Cultures of Quality within Asia Pacific Higher Education InstitutionsChapter 2. Development of the Self Accrediting System in Taiwan and Its Impact on Higher Education Institutions - A Case Study of Fu Jen Catholic UniversityChapter 3. From Strategic Thinking and Vision to Action: A Process of Mapping Organizational Quality--a Case Study of the USC Rossier School of EducationChapter 4. Assuring Quality in Transnational Higher Education: A Case Study of a Sino-foreign Cooperation University in ChinaChapter 5. Creative Moments in Company: A Quality Pursuing Case of an International Graduate Education Program in a Chinese UniversityChapter 6. Higher Education Massification and Quality Assurance in Vietnam: A case Study of Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh CityChapter 7. Quality Assurance in the Era of Mass Higher Education in JapanChapter 8. Quality Assurance and Quality Culture at a Public Higher Education Institution: A View from WithinChapter 9. Creating a Culture of Quality: Navigating Change toward a Culturally Responsive General Education ProgramChapter 10 Casting the Net Wider: Coping with an Increasingly Diverse International Student BodyChapter 11. Conclusion: When All Is Said and Done
