U6653+Higher+Education,+Policy+and+Development+in+Asia

Next Offered
Spring 2013

Professor
Alessia Lefebure (SIPA)

Syllabus
 Note: Syllabus is subject to change at the professor's discretion.

Course description
The course has been designed to enable students to understand and discuss major evolutions and trends in Higher Education policies across several Asian countries. Through an interdisciplinary and comparative approach the semester will be dedicated to the investigation of the origin, design, implementation, and effects of different policy responses to development problems and challenges. In particular the course will examine how the Higher Education choices reflect development goals of states and nations. In the past decade, the study of Higher Education policies has not been anymore limited to Education specialists, but has been progressively incorporated in a larger theoretical debate on the analysis of public policies and their instruments. Understanding Higher education policy is one of the ways to study State intervention. Given the pace and the scale of their changes, Asian countries can be regarded as a laboratory for a better comprehension of worldwide evolutions. Not only students will be able to give an historical perspective to the current policies and to link the evolutions in Higher education to the broader socio-economic development of the country, but they will also acquire knowledge about Asian higher education systems. Anther key learning objective will to better understand contemporary national debates about the role of higher education in economic development.

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