Taiwan had been ruled by Japan for fifty-one years before the end of World War II. The
island's higher education was established during that period, mainly to support Japan's …

Traditional and nontraditional education in Taiwan are considered, based on interviews with
educators and scholars in Taiwan, observations, and research materials. To provide a …

The transition from an elitisthigher education system to mass education hascreated a
number of concerns in this sector. Among these are fears for the quality of theprovision; the …

Reviewing the recent development of international higher education, one can find a general
tendency: Americanization. Whether it is in Europe or in Asia, US higher education has been …

The higher education systems of mainland China and Taiwan, dominated by single ruling
parties for more than 4 decades, are decentralizing concurrently with larger societal …

This chapter discusses the migration from the mainland in the early post-war period; this
supplied Taiwan with most of its highly educated people and formed a favorable initial …

This paper presents a portrait of the higher education system in Japan. After providing
demographic information about Japan, the document outlines the overall educational …

In recent years, Taiwan has demonstrated strong policy change to counteract the potential
threats brought upon by globalisation such as the opening of the higher education market to …

Japan's universities were established in order to import Western knowledge and ideas to
assist in the development of the nation beginning in the mid-19th century. Because it was …

This article addresses the rapidly changing situation in higher education in the People's
Republic of China. Although it is impossible to predict the nature of the final product, there …