Higher Education in Asia/Pacific

1. Quality and the Public Good: An Inseparable Linkage
Terance W. Bigalke, Deane E. Neubauer

2. The Growing Importance of the Privateness in Education: Challenges for Higher Education Governance in China
Ka Ho Mok

3. Redefining Public and Private in Asia Pacific Higher Education
Molly Lee, Deane E. Neubauer

4. Increasing Privatization of U.S. Higher Education: Forerunner or Deviant Case?
Terance W. Bigalke

5. Rankings and Quality—A European Perspective
Gero Federkeil

6. Future Directions for U.S. Higher Education Accreditation
Ralph A. Wolff

7. The Transformation of Quality Assurance in Higher Education in China
Jinghuan Shi

8. Quality Assurance and Higher Education in Japan
Shinichi Yamamoto

9. Quality Assurance in Higher Education: A Developing Country Perspective and Experience
V. S. Prasad

10. Quality Assurance in Higher Education: The Taiwan Experience
(Kent) Sheng Yao Cheng

11. Quality Assurance in Indonesian Higher Education
M. K. Tadjudin

12. The Challenges of Creating and Maintaining Higher Education Quality under Conditions of Rapid Economic Development in Thailand
Suchart Muangkeow

13. The Future Directions of Higher Education Quality Assurance in Korea
Keunwoo Lee

14. Accreditation in the Philippines: A Case Study
Victor Ordonez, Regina M. Ordonez

15. Constructing a General Framework for Quality Evaluation in Higher Education
Jinghuan Shi, Deane E. Neubauer

16. Doing Quality as Public Policy
Deane E. Neubauer

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Structural Geology, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Higher Education, International and Comparative Education