University governances models across regions: Asia

Abstract

This chapter will review and discuss the university governance in the geographical area of Asia, inclusive of the 48 countries and the systems in place within its most successful higher learning institutes and compare them with the lower ranking of the same category. We will cover political, commonalities, and governance factors; we will compare what are the university governance models of each area studied; how are things managed at the university level focusing on governance; and what seems to prevail as the best-practices model for university governance in this region of the world. We will answer the following questions: (1) Do the politics of the region strongly influence how successful or unsuccessful an Asian higher learning institution will prevail in rankings? (2) Do the top-ranking universities in Asia have significant commonalities and differences regardless of government type? (3) What is the overall summary of university governance in Asia?.