Globalisation has brought a number of regional cooperation, collaboration, partnership and networking initiatives among different countries. The regionalisation of higher education or its initiators have used different terms to define their objectives. For Asian higher education, this relationship has extended beyond the broader idea of higher education cooperation for instance, to include different networks and agreements within region and outside region on matters related to research, student mobility and quality assurance among Asian countries and between Asia and other countries that share a similar vision on education.This book examines and analyses the status of education policy in the Philippines and, more particularly, focuses on the issue of the integration of higher education in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It further examines ASEAN integration policies and what the Philippines could do to underpin these policies. The objective is to better understand the problems of global policy in the context of regionalisation, harmonisation and integration from both an ASEAN and a Philippine perspective. Prospective mechanisms of ASEAN for upgrading the quality of education provision through student mobility, staff exchange, regional accreditation and articulation are succinctly argued in this book. Methodologically, various research designs and methods, including a literature review, as a well as an empirical data and secondary data analysis were used. ASEAN leaders, higher education researchers and policymakers may find the results discussed in this book useful.
Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education Management & Policy Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Educational Management from the Cavite State University, Philippines and did his postdoc at the University of Pretoria.
AcknowledgementsList of Figures and Tables1 Philippine Higher Education in the Era of ASEAN Integration1 Introduction2 Integration of Higher Education in Southeast Asia3 Philippines’ Response4 Globalisation of ASEAN Higher Education5 The Organisation of the Book2 A Review of the Philippine Quality Assurance System1 Globalisation and the Development of a Knowledge Economy2 Understanding ‘Quality’ in Higher Education3 The Need for Quality in Philippine Higher Education4 Accreditation5 Quality Assurance for Skills Production6 Concluding Remarks3 Quality Improvement of Private Higher Education in the Philippines for ASEAN Integration1 Introduction2 Privatisation of Higher Education in the ASEAN Context3 The Role of Regulatory Bodies4 Concluding Remarks4 Predictors of the Use of Quality Management System (QMS) Processes for the ASEAN Agenda1 Introduction2 Use of Process Management in Higher Education3 Empirical Findings4 Age5 Gender6 Experience7 Educational Attainment8 Concluding Remarks5 Total Quality Management (TQM) and the ASEAN Skills Development Agenda1 Introduction2 Higher Education and Skills Development3 Application of TQM in Higher Education4 Concluding Remarks6 Measuring Research Performance of ASEAN Higher Education1 Introduction2 Historical Trajectory of Performance Measurement3 Measuring Service Quality in Higher Education4 Change Management5 Concluding Remarks7 Cultural Barriers to ASEAN Integration Policy Implementation1 Introduction2 Culture and Performance in Higher Education3 Mobility and Cultural Barriers4 Concluding Remarks8 Implications of ASEAN Integration for the Philippine Higher Education Policies1 ASEAN Integration2 Philippine Higher Education Policy3 Major Findings4 Symbolism of ASEAN Policy5 Political Symbolism6 Challenges and Demands7 RecommendationsIndex
