Abstract
As countries progress along the development trajectory, the availability of a competent human resource base becomes a determining factor of progress. Countries progressing from an agricultural economy to a manufacturing economy to a technological and knowledge economy recognize that an adequate supply of higher education graduates is a necessary precondition for achieving and sustaining advanced levels of development in this globalized, competitive, fast-changing world, as the tiger economies of Asia have proven.
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Ordonez, V., Ordonez, R.M. (2009). Accreditation in the Philippines: A Case Study. In: Bigalke, T.W., Neubauer, D.E. (eds) Higher Education in Asia/Pacific. International & Development Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100466_14
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