Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher Education by David W. Chapman, William K. Cummings, Gerard A. Postiglione

By David W. Chapman, William K. Cummings, Gerard A. Postiglione

This e-book examines concerns that experience emerged as greater schooling structures and person associations throughout East Asia confront and adapt to the altering fiscal, social, and academic environments during which they now function. The book’s concentration is on how better schooling structures study from one another and at the ways that they collaborate to deal with new demanding situations. The sub-theme that runs via this quantity issues the altering nature of cross-border sharing. particularly, the availability of technical guidance by way of extra industrialized nations to decrease and center source of revenue international locations has given option to collaborations that position the latter’s partaking associations on a extra equivalent footing.

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2001) has identified four interrelated types of regional disparity: a contrast between urban and rural areas; a core/periphery disparity, especially in countries with a monocentric urban Columns Design XML Ltd / Job: Smallbone-Cross_Border_Entrepreneurship / Division: 03-Chapter02 /Pg. Position: 11 / Date: 11/9 JOBNAME: Smallbone PAGE: 14 SESS: 3 OUTPUT: Fri Oct 26 15:27:12 2012 34 Cross-border entrepreneurship and economic development structure; a West/East difference, which is particularly evident in border areas; and concentrations of restructuring problems in old-industrial areas (Bachtler and Downes, 1999).

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For example in Estonia, until 1991, exports to the former Soviet Union accounted for 90–95 per cent of Columns Design XML Ltd / Job: Smallbone-Cross_Border_Entrepreneurship / Division: 03-Chapter02 /Pg. Position: 3 / Date: 11/9 JOBNAME: Smallbone PAGE: 6 SESS: 3 OUTPUT: Fri Oct 26 15:27:12 2012 26 Cross-border entrepreneurship and economic development total exports, but after four years it had dropped to 30 per cent (Venesaar and Hachey, 1995). The trade volume has increased significantly and the EU has become the most important trading partner of most CEECs, although with detailed variations between countries, regions and sectors.

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