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Increasing global interdependence is bringing to bear two powerful forces that are changing the nature of higher education throughout the world. This is, perhaps, nowhere more evident than in the Asia-Pacific region where the combination of continued social and economic development is accompanied by emergent varieties of state forms within which higher education is conducted.
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© 2009 Terance W. Bigalke and Deane E. Neubauer
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Bigalke, T.W., Neubauer, D.E. (2009). Quality and the Public Good: An Inseparable Linkage. In: Bigalke, T.W., Neubauer, D.E. (eds) Higher Education in Asia/Pacific. International & Development Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100466_1
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