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Seeking a Redefinition of Higher Education by Exploring the Changing Dynamics of Higher Education Expansion and Corresponding Policies in Taiwan

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Redefining Asia Pacific Higher Education in Contexts of Globalization: Private Markets and the Public Good

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This chapter is about the development of higher education expansion in Taiwan as well as the relevant challenges stemming from such development. Taiwan’s higher education system entered the phase of mass higher education in the last decade, during which it also experienced relevant challenges related to increasing unemployment rates and lower income returns of higher education degree holders.

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  1. Cheng-Cheng Yang
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  1. Azusa Pacific University, USA

    Christopher S. Collins (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

  2. University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA

    Deane E. Neubauer (Emeritus Professor of Political Science) (Emeritus Professor of Political Science)

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Yang, CC. (2015). Seeking a Redefinition of Higher Education by Exploring the Changing Dynamics of Higher Education Expansion and Corresponding Policies in Taiwan. In: Collins, C.S., Neubauer, D.E. (eds) Redefining Asia Pacific Higher Education in Contexts of Globalization: Private Markets and the Public Good. International and Development Education. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137559203_6

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