Regional Dynamism and Inequality

Abstract

In the light of the country and institutional studies in the preceding chapters, this concluding chapter explores the factors that determine the global effectiveness of higher education systems across the Asia-Pacific. Both the regional success stories and the failures have something to teach. Higher education systems are shaped by a combination of factors they do not control and factors within their grasp. The essential conditions include economic resources and development—which sustains the momentum of modernization and so positions higher education at the heart of national (and global) transformation—nation-state policy and regulation, and institutional strategy and leadership. There is c..