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  • The University of Hong Kongby Bernard Mellor

    Hong Kong University Press, HKU 1981; US$ 38.00

    The University of Hong Kong is one of Hong Kong’s largest single community enterprises. First incorporated as a self-governing body of scholars by the University Ordinance of 1911 its first faculties were formed from the Hong Kong College of Medicine founded in 1887. The growth and development of the University to its present internationally-recognized... more...

  • Higher Education in Koreaby Namgi Park; John Weidman

    Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 165.00

    This definitive collection takes an in-depth look at the higher education system in Korea. The editors and contributors present a fundamentally Korean view of the important issues for the Korean higher education system. In systematic, well written essays, they construct theoretical perspectives to analyze the development of the higher education system... more...

  • China's universities, 1895-1995by Ruth Hayhoe

    Taylor and Francis 1996; US$ 160.00

    This first comprehensive account of Chinese higher education during the modern period examines the first hundred years of the development of universities in China. more...

  • The Power of Positionby Timothy B. Weston

    University of California Press 2004; US$ 65.00

    Throughout the twentieth century, Beijing University (or Beida) has been at the center of China's greatest political and cultural upheavals?from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Why this should be?how Beida's historical importance has come to transcend that of... more...

  • Education and Training for Development in East Asiaby David Ashton; Francis Green; Donna James; Johnny Sung

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 195.00

    The East Asian miracle, or its supposed demise, is always news. The Four Tiger economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea have experienced some of the fastest rates of economic growth ever achieved. This book provides the first detailed analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia, and the relationship with... more...

  • Britain's Educational Reformby Mike Howarth

    Taylor and Francis 1990; US$ 200.00

    This book questions many of Britain's idiosyncratic attitudes towards education. Dimensions missing from Britain's recent reforms, but present in Japan are highlighted. The author argues that Britain could learn a lot from Japan in order to improve education and vocational training considerably. more...

  • Bilingual Education in Chinaby Anwei Feng

    Multilingual Matters 2007; US$ 59.95

    Compares and contrasts two strands of bilingualism in China, one for minority nationality groups, the other for majority. This volume examines the history, policy, philosophy, politics, provision and practice in bilingual, trilingual or multilingual education involving Mandarin Chinese, English, and minority languages. more...

  • Values Education and Lifelong Learningby David N. Aspin; Judith D. Chapman

    Springer 2007; US$ 149.99

    The aim of this book is to provide an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern for the nature, theory and practices of the ideas of values education and lifelong learning. Each chapter in this book is written in an accessible style by an international expert in the field. Authors tackle the task... more...

  • Brain Korea 21 Phase IIby Somi Seong; Steven W. Popper; Charles A. Goldman

    RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95

    In the late 1990s, the Korea Ministry of Education and Human Resources, in response to concern over the relatively low standing of the nation’s universities and researchers, launched the Brain Korea 21 program BK21). BK21 seeks to make Korean research universities globally competitive and to produce more high-quality researchers in Korea. It provides... more...

  • Post-Secondary Education in Qatarby Cathleen Stasz; Eric R. Eide; Francisco Martorell

    RAND Corporation 2007; US$ 9.95

    The leadership of Qatar has a social and political vision that calls for improving the country's post-secondary education system. Qatar's Supreme Education Council asked RAND to conduct a one-year study to assess whether the current post-secondary education opportunities in Qatar are aligned with the nation's social and economic goals,... more...