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Sheng-Ju Chan – Higher Education Quarterly, 2025
Private higher education (PHE) in Taiwan, similar to other East Asian systems, is a distinct sector that has played several significant roles. It experienced growth and prosperity during the massification of the entire higher education system. However, a multitude of emerging circumstances has ushered in dramatic changes and crises, impacting not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Higher Education, Educational Change
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Li, Xiaofan – International Review of Education, 2012
While China has a long history of private institutions of higher learning, they disappeared almost entirely after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and did not re-emerge until the 1980s. Their reappearance is one of the ramifications of economic marketisation and privatisation in China. But private higher education…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Low Achievement, Foreign Countries, Private Colleges