The Globalization of Japanese Higher Education : Contexts and Criteria
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"Globalization" has become one of the mantras of our age. Attempting the comprehensive, it has rightly been accused of both conceptual vagueness and an insensitivity to the plight of those whose boats might swamp when all yachts (globally) rise. Despite these criticisms, the discourse of globalization and global integration is a useful springboard for the examination of higher education trends that have recently begun to migrate from North America outward. These trends can be encapsulated in a new vision for higher education as a commercially viable business. Because of its well-established, differentiated, and widely privatized higher education sector, Japan serves as a particularly instructive test case for the importation of this new vision. The Japanese Ministry of Education has also begun to privatize flagship National Corporation universities in recent years as part of a comprehensive policy overhaul that will favor strong central leadership, a diminishment in faculty autonomy, the expansion of graduate programs, and increased institutional autonomy. Whether these top-down changes will ultimately make Japanese higher education both more self-sustaining and more competitive internationally is unclear. If western models are instructive, reform will only succeed if student / customers and their patrons are adequately "sold" on the value of university study to their career and personal pursuits. Given the traditional view in Japan of higher education as a fashion item, however, it is not yet evident if or how this commercializing reform will be achieved.
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