Rapid expansion of higher education in South Korea: Political economy of education fever

2008 ◽  
pp. 223-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunwoong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Education Fever ◽  
Expansion Of Higher Education

scholarly journals A Statist Political Economy and High Demand for Education in South Korea

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Ki Su Kim
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
South Korea ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Demand For Education ◽  
South Korean ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Developmental Policies ◽  
Academic Year

In the 1998 academic year, 84 percent of South Korea's high school "leavers" entered a university or college while almost all children went up to high schools. This is to say, South Korea is now moving into a new age of universal higher education. Even so, competition for university entrance remains intense. What is here interesting is South Koreans' unusually high demand for education. In this article, I criticize the existing cultural and socio-economic interpretations of the phenomenon. Instead, I explore a new interpretation by critically referring to the recent political economy debate on South Korea's state-society/market relationship. In my interpretation, the unusually high demand for education is largely due to the powerful South Korean state's losing flexibility in the management of its "developmental" policies. For this, I blame the traditional "personalist ethic" which still prevails as the

RIGID LOW COLLEGE PREMIUMS AND THE EXPANSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN TAIWAN

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (04) ◽  
pp. 1550022 ◽  
Author(s):  
LI-HSUAN HUANG ◽  
HSIN-YI HUANG
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Cohort Effect ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Elasticity Of Substitution ◽  
Export Structure ◽  
Expansion Of Higher Education

The rapid expansion of higher education in the late 1980s in Taiwan has resulted in a swift increase in the supply of highly-educated workers in the labor market. This research differs from past studies in that it analyzes the effect of the rapid expansion in higher education in Taiwan with emphasis on the cohort effect, specifically examining the effect of changes both in intra-cohort relative supply and the aggregate relative supply on college returns. Besides, when estimating the aggregate relative supply of college graduates, this study takes into account the substitutability between younger and older educated workers. We present evidence that the expansion policy has significantly depressed college premiums for workers of all ages, but the adverse effect is particularly concentrated among the younger cohorts. Furthermore, we found the elasticity of substitution between college and high school graduates to be 3–4 times higher than in developed countries. We also found the important role played by the demand side, likely linked to technological progress and changes in export structure toward the more technologically intensive. As a consequence, the expansion of higher education and increase in the relative demand for higher-educated workers, along with high elasticity of substitution between college and high school graduates, led to the rigid low college premiums.

scholarly journals Gender Barriers in Higher Education: The Case of Taiwan

2001 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Ru-jer Wang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Gender Barriers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Advanced Study ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Institutional Difference ◽  
Participation In Higher Education ◽  
Expansion Of Higher Education

As a consequence of the rapid expansion of higher education in Taiwan over the past decades, the enrolment of females in higher education has grown considerably. However, this article reports that in terms of institutional difference, access to advanced study, and differing subject preferences, the barriers to women's participation in higher education remain. Thus, the findings drawn from this article lead to the conclusion that females still suffer disadvantages in access to higher education, although the expansion of higher education in Taiwan has substantially benefited females over the past few decades.

scholarly journals Adapting conventional delivery to cope with large cohorts: turning seminars into workshops and changing assessment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
International Business ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Initial Evaluation ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Specific Approach ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Teaching Team

Teaching a popular postgraduate political economy module to around 50 international business and environment students (mainly Chinese) had always gone well. Delivery consisted of lectures and seminars with assessment via a 3,000-word essay. But with a three times larger cohort in 2017 things went wrong. The response from the teaching team was twofold. First to replace seminars with team-taught 2-hour workshops, to provide fewer targeted readings accompanied by specific questions for groups to answer, plus a redesign of the assessment, introducing a shorter more issue-specific approach based on short (500-word) answers to five questions chosen from ten, all tied to module learning outcomes and content. How did all this go? The paper highlights problems with the traditional approach and offers an initial evaluation of the changes introduced in 2018. Ultimately the paper addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the before and after and relates this to the changing demands placed on tutors charged with teaching large cohorts in a department going through rapid expansion. The case highlights the critical balance between volume and quality and asks difficult questions about the student experience and how universities respond to an increasingly marketized higher education sector.  

Being Mother:Comparative Study of the Contested Motherhood between South Korea and Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Desintha Asriani
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Family Routine ◽  
The Difference

This paper attempts to explain the discourse of motherhood in both South Korea and Indonesia. It is based on the interesting dynamic of being mother that is much influenced by the interrelated actions played by number of dominant actors around woman itself. By using a comparative study, it is found that the map or the trace of political economy in terms of developmental agenda, in fact drives the difference flows in shaping the notion of motherhood. In Indonesia, for being mother, women exist in the intersection of state intention, industrialization and culture pressure. Indonesian motherhood is interestingly in line with another analysis, such in their relation with housemaids. Meanwhile, in South Korea, the description of motherhood occurs in the middle of nationalism spirit, competition, ambience and family routine. Hence, this study concludes that being mother is highly contested and closely associated with the endless structural and cultural issues.

Global Competitiveness, Privatization, Dignified Spaces, and Curricular Reform in Indian Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanti Bajpai
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Curricular Reform ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Ranking System ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Indian Higher Education

Every ranking system rates Indian universities poorly against their Asian counterparts in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea, and in some cases, even universities in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. The question then is why, given that in 1947 it could fairly be said that at least a dozen Indian universities were leaders in Asia and were of international repute, Indian universities are in an egregious condition. This chapter essays some answers. It also argues for curricular reform, in particular for the introduction of public policy studies at the major Indian universities.

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