Institutionalization of World-Class University in Global Competition (The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective Book 6)

Front Matter....Pages i-xii The World-Class University in Different Systems and Contexts....Pages 1-13 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 The World-Class University: Concept and Policy Initiatives....Pages 17-32 The Global Research and the “World-Class” Universities....Pages 33-44 World-Class Universities: The Sector Requirements....Pages 45-58 Nation-States, Educational Traditions and the WCU Project....Pages 59-77 Front Matter....Pages 79-79 To Be or Not to Be? The Impacts of the Excellence Initiative on the German System of Higher Education....Pages 81-97 Reconciling Republican ‘Egalité’ and Global Excellence Values in French Higher Education....Pages 99-123 Challenges for Top Japanese Universities When Establishing a New Global Identity: Seeking a New Paradigm After “World Class”....Pages 125-143 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 World-Class University in Korea: Proactive Government, Responsive University, and Procrastinating Academics....Pages 147-163 Building World-Class Universities in China....Pages 165-183 The Challenges for Establishing World-Class Universities in Taiwan....Pages 185-201 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 Malaysia’s World-Class University Ambition: An Assessment....Pages 205-223 Peering Through the Dust of Construction: Singapore’s Efforts to Build WCUs....Pages 225-236 Frameworks for Creating Research Universities: The Hong Kong Case....Pages 237-254 Front Matter....Pages 255-255 Universalizing the University in a World Society....Pages 257-273 The World-Class University Across Higher Education Systems: Similarities, Differences, and Challenges....Pages 275-286 Back Matter....Pages 287-301 Moving the academic debate on from its current focus on development to a more nuanced sociological perspective, this fresh research is a collaboration between academics in South Korea and Germany that assesses the factors shaping world-class universities as institutional social systems as well as national cultural treasures. The work explores in detail how WCUs have moved to a central position in policy circles, and how these often ambitious government policies on WCUs have been interpreted and adopted by university administrators and individual professors. The authors provide a wealth of empirical data on universities, both world-class and aiming for WCU status, in a range of polities and continents. They compare strategies for developing WCUs in countries of the East and the West, both developing and developed. Nations featured in the statistical purview include nine countries (Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong SAR). The volume goes further than merely taking a snapshot of the current situation, offering detailed and considered strategies and rationales for institutionalizing and developing WCUs, particularly in Asian countries where Confucian cultural influences accord education the highest priority. Moving the academic debate on from its current focus on development to a more nuanced sociological perspective, this fresh research is a collaboration between academics in Asia and Europe that assesses the factors shaping world-class universities as institutional social systems as well as national cultural treasures. The work explores in detail how WCUs have moved to a central position in policy circles, and how these often ambitious government policies on WCUs have been interpreted and adopted by university administrators and individual professors. The authors provide a wealth of empirical data on universities, both world-class and aiming for WCU status, in a range of politics and continents. They compare strategies for developing WCUs in countries of the East and the West, both developing and developed. Nations featured in the statistical purview include nine countries (Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong SAR). The volume goes further than merely taking a snapshot of the current situation, offering detailed and considered strategies and rationales for institutionalizing and developing WCUs, particularly in Asian countries where Confucian cultural influences accord education the highest priority