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Notes on Contributors Abdul Razak Ahmad is Associate Professor at Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, and was previously with the Governance Section, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia. Abdul Razak is a law graduate and has reviewed extensively the University and University Colleges Act and public university constitution, particularly those relating to governance and autonomy. Abdul Razak is now working on international terrorism. Stephen J. Ball is the Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education the Department of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, and he is a Fellow of the British Academy. Stephen Ball s work is in the field of policy sociology, the use of sociological theories, and methods to analyze policy processes and outcomes. Specific research interests focus upon the effects and consequences of the education market in a variety of respects including the impact of competition on provider behavior, the class strategies of educational choosers, the participation of private capital in education service delivery and education policy, and the impact of performativity on academic and social life. His most recent books are Education Plc. (Routledge, 2007) and The Education Debate (Policy Press, 2008). Sheng-Ju Chan is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Institute of Education at the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. Prior to that, he has also taught at the National Chiayi University, Taiwan since 2006. Chan received his PhD from the Institute of Education, University of London in 2006 and served as international alumni ambassador for the institution. His areas of special interests are higher education policy, comparative education, and higher education management. He is author of more than a dozen publications in Chinese and currently conducts a commissioned research regarding national university merger policy for the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. John N. Hawkins is Professor Emeritus and Director of the Center for International and Development Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was Dean of International Studies at UCLA, and has served as a Director of the UCLA Foundation Board, and is currently a Director of the East West Center Foundation Board. He is co-editor of Palgrave Macmillan s International and Development Education Book Series, has served as President of the Comparative and International Education Society, and

216 Notes on Contributors Editor of the Comparative Education Review. He is a specialist on higher education reform in the United States and Asia and the author of several books and research articles on education and development in Asia. He has conducted research throughout Asia since 1966 when he first visited the People s Republic of China and Japan. William Yat-Wai Lo is Instructor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; and currently is a PhD Candidate, University of Bristol, UK. He has published articles in several scholarly journals such as Higher Education (forthcoming), Policy Futures in Education, International Journal of Educational Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, and Journal for Critical Studies of Education. He is Associate Editor of Journal of Asian Public Policy. Jonathan London directs the Vietnam Project at the Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, where he is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies. London has authored scholarly articles on contemporary Vietnam s education and health systems and is completing a book on Vietnam s welfare regime. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ka-Ho Mok is Associate Vice President (External Relations) and Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIED). Before joining the HKIED, he was Associate Dean and Professor of Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong. He is now Visiting Professor of the Graduate Education and Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Bristol, UK. He also served as Associate Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at City University of Hong Kong before taking up the position at the University of Bristol. Mok obtained his doctorate degree from London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. He has published extensively in the fields of comparative education policy, policy studies, and governance and social development in contemporary China and East Asia. He has also worked with UNICEF and World Bank as international consultant. Jun Oba is Associate Professor of the Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE), Hiroshima University, Japan. His current research focuses on changing university governance and diverse staff issues. He has published extensively in the field of higher education. Recent journal publications appear in Higher Education, Policy Futures in Education, Higher Education Research in Japan, and the Journal of Comparative Asian Development. Byung-Shik Rhee is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Education at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He previously served as a visiting scholar in Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served as advisory member of Presidential Committee on Education Innovation and Education Policy Committee of Korean Ministry of Education. He holds a PhD in Higher Education from the University of Michigan. His current research interest is in college impact, institutional performance, college student assessment, and organizational behavior and management in higher education institutions.

Notes on Contributors 217 Morshidi Sirat is the Director and Professor of the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN) based at Universiti Sains Malaysia. Since 2008, Morshidi was appointed as Dean of Research, Platform for Social Transformation Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Morshidi is currently coordinating the APEX University Research Agenda (AURA), a project which monitors and reports the impacts of APEX on the university community and system. Morshidi has published widely on state-university relationship in Malaysia. Jandhyala B.G. Tilak is Professor at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. He has a PhD from the Delhi School of Economics. Professor Tilak had taught in the Indian Institute of Education and the University of Delhi, and as a Visiting Professor at the Sri Sathya Sai University, Hiroshima University, and Virginia University. An economist of education, Tilak was also on the staff of the World Bank, Washington, DC. He is the author of 10 books and more than 250 research papers in the area of education and development studies and recipient of several honors, including the Swami Pranavananda Saraswati Award of the UGC for outstanding research in education and the Dr. Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for contributions to development studies. Anthony Welch is Professor of Education, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. His numerous publications include studies of reforms, principally within Australia, and the Asia-Pacific Region. Professor Welch has consulted to international agencies such as UNDP and the Commonwealth of Learning, governments in Australia, Asia, as well as within Europe, and to U.S. institutions and foundations. He has been Visiting Professor in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Japan. He was recently selected as a Fulbright New Century Scholar (2007 2008). His most recent books are The Professoriate: Profile of a Profession (2005), Education, Change and Society (2007), and The Dragon and the Tiger Cubs (on China s relations with Southeast Asia, forthcoming). His forthcoming book on Southeast Asian higher education will appear in 2010, and he is also completing further joint work on internationalizing Chinese universities, and directing the ARC project, The Chinese Knowledge Diaspora. Rui Yang worked at a Chinese university for nearly a decade before commencing doctoral studies at the University of Hong Kong in 1996. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2001. He has taught and researched at Universities of Shantou and Hong Kong in China, and Universities of Western Australia and Monash in Australia. He is now Director and Associate Professor, Comparative Education Research Centre, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. He has written extensively in the field of comparative and international education. His current interest is focused on comparative and global studies in education policy, higher education internationalization, cross-cultural studies in education, and education policy sociology.

Index Academic freedom 6, 8 9, 42 43, 85, 90, 98, 120, 133, 136, 139, 141 144, 150 Accountability 6, 8 9, 11, 22 23, 26 27, 32 34, 38 39, 44 45, 69, 72, 75, 77, 83, 93, 104 107, 112, 114, 118, 120, 135, 142, 145 146, 148 153, 162, 202, 206, 212 213 Accreditation 43, 111, 167, 172, 175, 183, 190, 202, 206 207, 212 Asia-Pacific 10, 20, 30 31, 34, 39, 41 42, 45, 217 Autonomy 5 6, 32, 34, 40, 42 43, 55, 59, 69, 72, 75, 78, 86, 89 90, 98, 100, 111 112, 114, 120, 126, 128 130, 132 137, 139 152, 169, 182, 184, 187, 190, 198, 203, 206 208, 212, 215 Centralization 34, 43, 45, 116, 134, 144, 149 150, 162, 169, 207 China 5, 9, 11, 18 22, 26 27, 30, 36, 38 40, 44 46, 49 68, 82, 121, 142, 151 152, 154 155, 177, 198, 210, 213, 216 217 Commercialization 3, 9, 35, 63, 103 104, 107, 109, 183, 197, 208 210 Corporatization 3 4, 6 8, 10, 49, 82 83, 113 114, 116 118, 135, 146, 148 Decentralization 2, 38, 40 41, 43 45, 50, 52, 56, 63, 65, 77, 80, 116, 149, 162 163, 169, 207 208, 212 Demographic 70 71, 78, 153, 159 160, 172 Deregulation 6, 27, 70, 71, 77, 80, 104, 140, 144 147, 149 Devolution 7, 15, 63, 95, 134, 144, 147, 162 163 East Asia 13, 26 27, 38 39, 45 46, 66, 99, 119, 158, 170, 193, 198, 214, 216 Enrollment 5 6, 33, 35, 49 50, 52 54, 56 59, 61, 69 71, 73, 94 95, 109, 142, 157, 160 162, 165 167, 172, 176 178, 181, 185, 196 197, 199 201, 204 205 Entrepreneurialism 6, 49, 67, 103 106, 111 112, 115, 118 119 Evaluation 5, 15, 73, 76, 79, 90, 92 95, 97 102, 125, 136, 141 142, 145 147, 165, 212 Globalization 1, 4, 7, 9 11, 14 15, 25 27, 29, 32, 38, 40, 44 46, 49 50, 52, 62, 64 65, 67, 104, 120 122, 125, 140, 145, 148, 151, 160 161, 170 171, 173 174, 177, 182, 188 189, 213 Heterarchies 2, 4, 13 18, 23 Hierarchies 2, 15, 195, 213 214 Higher education reform 5, 7, 29, 31, 45 46, 66 69, 72 73, 78, 80, 82, 115, 118 119, 134, 147, 151, 162, 204, 207, 216 Hong Kong 6, 10, 19, 21, 38 39, 45 47, 63 64, 66 67, 82, 103, 105 107, 109 111, 113, 115 123, 189, 216 217 Human resource 5, 33, 42, 60, 71 72, 81 82, 89 90, 101, 130, 146, 169, 175, 189 190, 208 Hybrid 2, 4, 13, 17 18, 21, 23, 25, 40, 81, 127 Incorporation 4 5, 7 8, 15, 25, 67 68, 73 75, 77 83, 85 87, 90 93, 96, 98, 100 101, 117, 130, 154

220 Index India 7, 20, 23, 30, 36, 45, 58, 64, 128, 171 185, 187 191, 217 Inequalities 8, 60, 176, 180 181, 196, 198, 201, 209 Innovation 10, 15, 17 18, 73, 87, 116 117, 122, 130, 146 147, 152, 158, 172, 184, 187, 211, 216 Internationalization 7 8, 41 42, 44, 65, 117, 125 126, 170 172, 187 188, 217 Japan 5, 7, 21, 30, 38, 44, 46, 67 68, 74 75, 77, 81 83, 85, 87, 89, 91 93, 95 102, 126, 139, 150, 159, 216 217 Knowledge economy 22 24, 38 39, 42, 122, 137, 174, 198 Korea 3, 5, 8, 21, 30, 38 39, 46, 67 83, 101, 216 Liberalization 5, 30, 141, 144 Malaysia 3, 6 7, 9, 19 20, 40, 101, 110, 125 135, 137, 149, 151, 153 155, 157 164, 169 170, 215, 217 Managerialism 17, 42, 103 104, 106, 111 112, 115, 117, 121, 142, 148 151 Marketization 3, 8, 10, 25, 38, 46, 52, 63, 77, 80, 82, 111, 122, 146 147, 151 National universities 5, 67 69, 71 81, 83, 85 87, 89, 91 102, 150, 152, 200, 203, 206 Neoliberalism 3, 6 7, 22 23, 31, 43, 64, 83, 121, 136, 142, 147 149 Network 2, 11, 13 14, 16, 19, 22, 24 27, 37, 45, 54, 61, 115, 125, 154, 176, 179, 184 185, 196, 202, 204, 213 214 Ownership 24, 51, 75, 114 Private universities 41, 55, 112, 155 156, 160 161, 169, 174, 181 182, 187 Privatization 2 4, 7 10, 26, 35 36, 38, 40, 43 45, 99, 110, 142, 153, 167, 169, 188 Provision 2, 8 9, 15, 20, 34, 51, 54 55, 78, 109 111, 114 115, 119, 129, 131 135, 144, 146 147, 154 155, 159, 177, 180, 188, 196 198, 204 Public sector 2 4, 7 8, 10, 13, 15 19, 22 27, 43, 70 71, 78, 99, 104, 141 142, 153, 161 162, 164, 167, 171, 176, 178, 180, 188 Public universities 21 22, 36 37, 44, 59 61, 82, 95, 100 101, 113 114, 126, 128 131, 133 135, 137, 139, 142, 144 146, 156, 181, 200, 204 206, 208, 212 Quality assurance 8 9, 19, 23 24, 43, 79, 103, 105 107, 112 114, 116 117, 122, 146, 165 166, 170, 207 Regulation 3, 8 9, 18, 41, 43, 70 72, 83, 106, 131, 135, 139, 141 142, 144, 151, 155, 163 164, 166 167, 172, 183, 187, 206 Singapore 6, 14, 19 23, 38 41, 47, 66 67, 82, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109 119, 121 123, 149, 151, 166, 169, 205, 213 Southeast Asia 6 7, 9, 15, 18, 23, 42, 153, 155 164, 166 170, 200, 216 217 State building 3, 10 Thailand 6, 8, 20, 120, 137, 153, 158 161, 164, 168 Transnational 2, 4, 7, 14, 18 19, 21 25, 112, 115, 117, 123, 163 164, 167 United Kingdom 3, 8, 18, 20 21, 27, 67, 96, 128, 148, 217 United States 3, 5, 8, 18, 21, 30, 36 38, 42 45, 58, 62, 68, 78, 91, 96, 98, 148, 158, 188, 206, 209 212, 216 217 University governance 1, 4, 6 9, 38, 54, 82, 86, 91, 94, 103 104, 115, 118, 125, 135 136, 139 141, 144, 146 147, 149, 151, 216 Vietnam 6 7, 20 21, 153 154, 156 157, 159 162, 164 166, 168 170, 193 214, 216 World-class 1, 4, 8 9, 11, 30, 70, 72, 112, 115, 117, 126 129, 135 137, 145, 151 152, 157, 172, 176, 185 186, 190