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The potential effects of globalization on education are many and far-reaching due to education’s scale and nature. This chapter aims to investigate how globalization has been affecting higher education and how higher education has been responding to the challenges that have arisen from globalization. It first outlines what is meant by globalization, the impacts on education, and principal changes which have come about. More specifically, there are reviews of development of higher education in the Asia-Pacific region and how higher education in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Vietnam have been responding to globalization. When educational systems in the Asia-Pacific region are open to globalization, their traditional cultures and values of collectivism, humanism, self-cultivation, trust, compassion, grace, and honesty in educational governance, administration, management and leadership have changed into those neo-liberal values of contract, market, choice, competition, efficiency, flexibility, managerialism, and accountability.
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Pang, N.Sk. (2016). How Higher Education Systems in Asia-Pacific Respond to the Challenges Posed by Globalization. In: Geo-JaJa, M.A., Majhanovich, S. (eds) Effects of Globalization on Education Systems and Development. The World Council of Comparative Education Societies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-729-0_5
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