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With contributions from several Asia-pacific countries, this book compares performance and productivity in higher education from the perspective of institutional change. The authors focus on shedding light on the efficacy of institutional policies and reforms.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Productivity change in Australian higher education 3. University research productivity in Cambodia: An analysis of Scopus-indexed publications 4. Economies of scale or scope? The development strategies of university and its impact on research productivity in China 5. Paradigm shift in measuring productivity in higher education: Case of select Indian technical education institutions 6. Policy debates and the reality of the research productivity of national universities in Japan 7. Productivity of Malaysian universities: Boon or bane? 8. Concluding remarks
About the author
Gwilym Croucher is a Research Academic in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education. A higher education analyst, he was a 2017-2018 Fulbright Scholar and has been a Chief Investigator on major Australian Research Council-funded projects. His research focuses on questions of the management of universities and the political economy of higher education.
Chuanyi Wang is the Associate Professor at the Institute of Education, Tsinghua University. He is the vice director of the Ministry of Education-Tsinghua University Research Center for Educational Strategy and Policy, and the Research Center for Graduate Education, Tsinghua University. His research fields include graduate education and assessment of higher education. He was awarded the first prize for the National Excellent Achievements in Educational Science Research by the Ministry of Education, China.
Jiale Yang is a Researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Evaluation Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her research interests include talent and discipline evaluation. She was awarded the Future Scholar of Tsinghua University in 2018.
Summary
With contributions from several Asia-pacific countries, this book compares performance and productivity in higher education from the perspective of institutional change. The authors focus on shedding light on the efficacy of institutional policies and reforms.
