Emergent Knowledge Society and the Future of Higher Education

Deane Neubauer currently serves as Senior Advisor to the International Forum for Education 2020 at the East-West Center, and as Senior Research Fellow to the Globalization Research Center, University of Hawaii, Manoa. He recently co-edited Access, Capacity and Equity in Asia Pacific Higher Education.

• 1. Introduction 2. Information and Innovation in a Global Knowledge Society: Implications for Higher Education 3. The Transformation of Research in the Knowledge Society: The U.S. Experience 4. Aligning Universities and Higher Education Systems with the Challenges of Emergent Knowledge Economies 5. What Should We Teach? Making Higher Education Curricular Choices in an Era of Rapidly Expanding Knowledge 6. Higher Education Knowledge Economy: Challenges for Taiwan 7. The Role of Universities Amidst the Challenges of the Knowledge Society 8. Linking Graduate and Undergraduate Education in the Knowledge Society: Exploring Key Quality Issues from a Japanese Perspective 9. Quality, Structure and Change: The Response of the Malaysian Higher Education System to Challenges of the Knowledge Society 10. Quality Assurance Issues in Korean Higher Education: The Challenges of an Emergent Knowledge Society 11. Asserting Brain Power and Expanding Educational Services: Searching for New Governance and Regulatory Regimes in Singapore and Hong Kong 12. Higher Education Counseling: Keeping Pace with Rapidly Changing Learning Environments 13. Higher Education and Gender Issues in the Knowledge Economy: Who Studies What, Why and Where? 14. The End of the University as We Know It? 15. The Changing Social Ecology of Higher Education