Higher Education Governance in East Asia ― Transformations Under Neoliberalism

This book deepens our understanding of how higher education governance has recently changed in the rapidly developing higher education systems of East Asia. Focusing on China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan, it explains the implications of how state-centered political systems interpret political and economic environments such as neoliberalism, as well as how each system is coping with global pressures. The book makes a valuable contribution to organization studies in higher education by investigating and detailing how individual higher education institutions are responding to their new environments.

Dr. Shin is a professor at Seoul National University. Having served at the Korean Ministry of Education for nearly 20 years, his main research interests are in higher education policy, knowledge and social development, and academic professions. He is Co-editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Higher Education and co-editor of the Knowledge Studies in Higher Education series (both from Springer), as well as a board member for the journals Studies in Higher Education, Tertiary Education and Management and Peabody Journal of Education.

His recent book publications include University Rankings (2011), Institutionalization of World-Class University in Global Competition (2012), Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education (2013), The Future of the Post-Massified University at the Crossroads (2013), The Dynamics of Higher Education Development in East Asia (2013), Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia (2015), and Doctoral Education for the Knowledge Society (2018).