Scientific Development and Higher Education

PHILIP G. ALTBACH is Professor and Director of the Comparative Education Center, State University of New York at Buffalo.CHARLES H. DAVIS is Science Advisor in the Science Council of Canada, Ottawa.THOMAS O. EISEMON is Professor and Director of the Center for Cognitive and Ethnographic Studies, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.S. GOPINATHAN is Head of the Department of Comparative Studies, Institute of Education, Singapore.H. STEVE HSIEH is Associate Director General of the Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China.SUNGHO LEE is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.PANG ENG FONG is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management National University of Singapore.JASBIR SARJIT SINGH is Dean of the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• Introduction Higher Education and Scientific Development Higher Education and Scientific Development: The Promise of Newly Industrialized Countries Higher Education and Research Environments in Korea Scientific Personnel, Research Environments and Higher Education in Malaysia Public Policy, Research Environment and Higher Education in Singapore University Education and Research in Taiwan Case Studies of the Academic Research Environment Research and Productivity in the Malaysian University: A Case Study of the Department of Botany, University of Malaya Faculty Research Attitudes and Practices: The Case of an Electrical Engineering Department in Korea Scientific Research in the Botany Department at the National University of Singapore: A Case Study The Scientific Research Environment in Taiwan Patterns of Scientific Productivity Publication Strategies of Scientists in Four Peripheral Asian Scientific Communities: Some Issues in the Measurement and Interpretation of Non-Mainstream Science Index