Comparing Higher Education Systems in selected Asia Pacific countries: implications for Malaysia.

With the continuing emphasis placed on higher education institutions in many countries to produce knowledge workers for the next generation, there has been a continuous demand to strengthen the provision and delivery of higher education systems. This has resulted in an extraordinary expansion and in...

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Main Author: Shuib, Munir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Higher Education Research Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2013
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/34902/
http://eprints.usm.my/34902/1/BULLETIN_21_PART_1.pdf
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Summary:With the continuing emphasis placed on higher education institutions in many countries to produce knowledge workers for the next generation, there has been a continuous demand to strengthen the provision and delivery of higher education systems. This has resulted in an extraordinary expansion and intensification of internet use - “between the end of 2000 and 2008, worldwide internet users increased from 361 million to 1,581 million” (Internetworldstats, 2009; cited in Marginson, 2010, p. 23).