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 Regional Information
IIE Asia Web Resources
The Institute for International Education (IIE) website hosts a number of articles and links related to international activity
in Asia. Some of the articles are only available to institutional members.
- Website: http://www.iienetwork.org/?p=41528
Globalization and Women in Southeast Asian Higher Education Management
This paper draws on data from a group case study of women in higher education management in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. I investigate culture-specific dimensions of what the Western literature has conceptualized as "glass ceiling" impediments to women's career advancement in higher education. The full text of this article can be purchased at TCRecord website. An abstract is available there without charge.
- Website: http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=10843
China
Chinese Education and Research Network
This site hosts information in English and Chinese and includes: an overview of Chinese education, policies and laws, resarch,news and announcements, etc.
- Website (English): http://www.cernet.edu.cn/HomePage/english/
- Website (Chinese): http://www.eol.cn/20060810/3203136.shtml
Higher Education Forum
A professional forum about hot issues and developments in higher education in China.(Chinese)
- Website (Chinese): http://www.univs.cn/univs/fudan/info.php?class1
Ministry of Education, Overview of Higher Education
There are more than 2,000 higher education institutions in China--approximately 1400 are regular HEIs and the other 600 were higher education institutions for adults.
- Website (English): http://www.moe.edu.cn/english/higher_h.htm/<./a>
- Website (Chinese): http://www.moe.edu.cn/
A list of higher education institutions can be found at: http://www.moe.edu.cn/english/list.htm
National Center for Education Development Research
This study provides government fiscal reports and evaluations for higher education in Japan, America and Germany. The report explores purposes, approaches, criterion, processes,and function. The author analyzes the relationship between finances and higher education evaluations and offers suggestions.
- Website (Chinese): http://www.moe.edu.cn/moe-direct/fazhanyjzx/227.htm
Wah Ching Centre of Research on Education in China
- Website: http://www.hku.hk/chinaed/
Recent Papers
Higher Education in China: The Next Super Power is Coming of Age
Robinson, Susan. (2005). ACE Washington DC.
Susan Porter Robinson provides an overview of history and trends in Chinese Higher Education
- Website: http://www.acenet.edu/.../ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=11822
Elitism and Equality in Chinese Higher Education
Huang, Lihong. (2005). IIE Stockholm.
The study finds that the patterns of socio-economic factors influencing student upward mobility in present-day China are different from those of ancient China and from those previous Communist leaders attempted to achieve only 20 years ago.
- Website: http://www.interped.su.se/publications/lihongthesis.pdf
Japan
Research Institute of Higher Education, Hiroshima University
Statistics of Japanese Higher Education
- Website: http://en.rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/data_category.php/
Publications of the Institute
- Website: http://en.rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/pl_index.php
Korea
Overview of Higher Education and Reform Inititiatives
Dr. G.J. Kim. Higher Education Seminar. 2005
Summary of enrollment, financing, challentges and reform initiatives
for Korean higher education today.
- PDF: Korean Higher Education
Reform of Technical Higher Education: Promoting Innovation-Based
Growth World Bank. Moscow. 2005
Summary and presentations from a seminar on the reform of
technical higher education to promote sustainable innovation
and economic growth was organized by the World Bank in cooperation
with the Higher School of Economics, National Training Foundation
(Russia) and Korea Development Institute (KDI). The seminar
was a part of South-South Learning Program on Innovation.
- Website: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/...~theSitePK:461198,00.html
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