Globally, private universities enrol one in three of all higher education students. In Japan,
which has the second largest higher education system in the world in terms of overall …

What makes a university teacher 'excellent'? How might we best promote the growth of
teaching excellence in higher education? And is current policy supporting such growth …

The notion that education is a public good or education is a private commodity has been
much debated with the increasing marketization of higher education in the Asia-Pacific …

This article argues that multinational corporations may provide critical relief routes for
women workers' progress in managerial careers in national contexts where their career …

This study examines the construction of Chinese international students' identities in the
context of the internationalization of two Japanese higher education institutions. It employs a …

Higher education (HE), as a whole throughout Asia-Pacific, has grown rapidly, resulting in
greater opportunities for access to higher education. The rapid increase in access to HE …

This paper first explores in general terms how university faculty work in Japan has been
changing, particularly in the past decade. These changes are connected to fundamental …

In recent decades, higher education as a whole throughout Asia-Pacific has grown rapidly,
although at different stages of development (Collins and Buasuwan, 2017; Sánchez and …

The births in 1966 in Japan dropped by 25% because of the Hinoeuma (“Fiery Horse”)
superstition, which says that a woman born in that year cannot be a good wife. Since the sex …

Long viewed as insular and hesitant to employ foreign academics, a sharply declining
birthrate has forced universities in Japan to change their approach, with a new emphasis on …