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Cooperation and Competition in Tango: Transnationalization of Higher Education and the Emergence of Regulatory Regionalism in Asia

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Higher Education Regionalization in Asia Pacific

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Confronted with a growing pressure for internationalization, together with the strong urge for enhancing the global status in the highly competitive knowledge-based economy, many Asian governments have adopted different strategies to make their higher education (HE) more competitive through the quest for becoming a regional education hub and the transnationalization of HE in order to assert their regional/global influences. Unquestionably, the rise of transnational higher education (TNHE) and the quest for regional education hub status among Asian countries has suggested more competition. However, we have also observed more regional cooperation emerging through various kinds of bilateral and multilateral collaborations among Asian states with attempts to strengthen the regional influences in coping with the growing challenges from their counterparts in Europe and North America. One of the major trends of changing university governance is the emergence of regulatory regionalism, which is reflected by the striking features of recent developments in regional governance that transcend territorial spaces of nation states. This chapter sets out against this policy context to examine major policies introduced and strategies employed by governments in selected Asian societies — Singapore and Malaysia — in expanding TNHE programs and actively involving regional collaborations.

This chapter is based upon a research project funded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The author wants to thank the Research Grant Council for offering financial support to enable him to undertake the present report (HKIEd 7005-PPR-6). Thanks must be extended to Dr Ong Kok Chung for offering research assistance to the present project.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    John N. Hawkins (Professor Emeritus and Director of the Center for International and Development Studies) (Professor Emeritus and Director of the Center for International and Development Studies)

  2. Faculty of Social, University of Hong Kong, China

    Ka Ho Mok (Associate Dean and Professor) (Associate Dean and Professor)

  3. University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA

    Deane E. Neubauer (Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Senior Research Scholar) (Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Senior Research Scholar)

  4. Globalization Research Center (UHM), USA

    Deane E. Neubauer (Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Senior Research Scholar) (Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Senior Research Scholar)

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Mok, K.H. (2012). Cooperation and Competition in Tango: Transnationalization of Higher Education and the Emergence of Regulatory Regionalism in Asia . In: Hawkins, J.N., Mok, K.H., Neubauer, D.E. (eds) Higher Education Regionalization in Asia Pacific. International and Development Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137311801_9

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