https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fhep.2015.12


Abstract
The scant knowledge of the regional landscape in higher education research as afield of study in Asia motivated this special issue. The characterization and analysis of the evolution of higher education research and its communities has been mostly focused in North America and Europe. This is expected since these were the regions of the world first striving for and attaining universal higher education systems (Trow, 2007). Higher education research, including that oriented towards the international research community, developed more intensively in these regions as they struggled to cope with varied — sometimes unexpected — complex challenges of fast-paced transforming higher education systems since the 1960s (Teichler, 2006).This special issue contributes to the literature by providing theoretical,historical, and empirical perspectives concerning the development of higher education research in East Asia. Its contents are expected to inform discussions about past,...