This volume provides an empirical and qualitative analysis of the nature and extent of the Japanese academic profession, with a special focus on the changes that occurred in the period between 1992 and 2007. Based on responses to two comprehensive surveys administered to faculty samples with a similar questionnaire, the book presents key aspects of the academic activities and views of Japanese faculty members. Divided into five sections, the book describes the changing social, economic and educational environment, academic organization and life, productivity, as well as the effects of the...
This volume provides an empirical and qualitative analysis of the nature and extent of the Japanese academic profession, with a special focus on the c...
This volume provides an empirical and qualitative analysis of the nature and extent of the Japanese academic profession, with a special focus on the changes that occurred in the period between 1992 and 2007.
This volume provides an empirical and qualitative analysis of the nature and extent of the Japanese academic profession, with a special focus on the c...
This volume provides a nuanced empirical assessment of the extent to which the academic profession is internationalized at the beginning of the 21st century. It indicates which are the most internationalized academic activities, and focuses on specific topics such as physical mobility for study or professional purposes, teaching abroad or in another language, research collaboration with foreign colleagues, and publication and dissemination outside one s native country or in another language. It places the main theme in the wider context of the history of higher education s...
This volume provides a nuanced empirical assessment of the extent to which the academic profession is internationalized at the beginning of the 21<...
This book discusses mass higher education development in East Asian countries by means of three main issues: the strategy for higher education development; the way professors and students in the region are experiencing the rapid developments; and the challenges imposed by mass higher education. These challenges include the quality of education as well as structural changes in the rapidly developing systems, funding sources for supporting mass higher education, and job markets for college graduates.
Part I discusses how the East Asian countries have accomplished or are in the process...
This book discusses mass higher education development in East Asian countries by means of three main issues: the strategy for higher education deve...
