Institutionalization of World-Class University in Global Competition

pMoving the academic debate on from its current focus on development to a more nuanced sociological perspective, this fresh research is a collaboration between academics in South Korea and Germany that assesses the factors shaping world-class universities as institutional social systems as well as national cultural treasures. The work explores in detail how WCUs have moved to a central position in policy circles, and how these often ambitious government policies on WCUs have been interpreted and adopted by university administrators and individual professors./pppThe authors provide a wealth of empirical data on universities, both world-class and aiming for WCU status, in a range of polities and continents.
They compare strategies for developing WCUs in countries of the East and the West, both developing and developed. /pppNations featured in the statistical purview include nine countries (Germany, France, Japan, South Korea,�China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong SAR). The volume goes further than merely taking a snapshot of the current situation, offering detailed and considered strategies and rationales for institutionalizing and developing WCUs, particularly in Asian countries where Confucian cultural influences accord education the highest priority./pp