Globalization and Internationalization of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific

Abstract

<p>In a context of increasingly intensified globalization, higher education development in the Asia-Pacific is picking up the pace in nearly all major domains including massification, governance, marketization, and privatization, and world university rankings. Meanwhile, the internationalization of higher education in the region also deepens. It has even become a focal point at various levels from national governments to institutions and individual knowledge workers. The scenarios of the internationalization of higher education in the Asia-Pacific, however, have been highly differentiated. With substantial differentiation among the societies in the region, internationalization has multi-dimensional meanings to their higher education systems. In general, the higher education landscape in the Asia-Pacific countries has become increasingly internationalized over the past 50 years. The most recent three decades have seen particularly remarkable achievements in the internationalization of higher education in the region, especially in East Asia. Such developments have contributed greatly to the present transformation of some Asia-Pacific higher education systems into the largest and arguably most promising ones in the world.</p>