Building excellence in higher education: Singapore's experience

Publication Type

Book

Publication Date

8-2021

Abstract

Singapore has built in about 30 years a very performing system of higher education, including 6 universities, 5 polytechnics and the Institutes of Technical Education. In this book I explore how the system was built, what the policies were that made it successful and what the future challenges will be. The focus is really on the universities and on the success factors e.g. fitness for purpose, diversity in the system, flexibility in implementation, a high level of support for university led research. In the last three chapters I address the challenges, some of them specific to Singapore, e.g. the shrinking cohort, other more universal e.g. the role of technology in higher education.

Keywords

Universities, higher education, Singapore

Discipline

Asian Studies | Higher Education

Research Areas

Strategy and Organisation

First Page

1

Last Page

208

ISBN

9781003083719

Identifier

10.4324/9781003083719

Publisher

Routledge

City or Country

New York

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003083719

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