Master’s Education in Massified, Internationalized, and Marketized East Asian Higher Education Systems

Abstract

This special issue aims to address the topics on expanding master’s education and its current challenges in East Asia, focusing on China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. The special issue describes the historical backgrounds and key characteristics of master’s education and identifies new demands for master’s education in terms of employability and labour market outcomes. By doing so, it addresses major issues of current master’s education in selected East Asian higher education systems. Each article contains original research, based on historical and empirical approaches, that deepens our understanding of master’s education and reveals different contextual challenges in higher education, such as massification, internationalization, and marketization.