UNESCO Report: Higher Education in Asia: Expanding Out, Expanding Up. The rise of graduate education and university research

Asia’s spectacular rise in enrolment rates in higher education over the past 20 years has been the subject of many reports. However, this report does not focus on the past to explain this trend. Instead, it looks to the future by examining the different approaches countries are taking to expand their higher education systems for the next generations. On the one hand, higher education systems are growing outwards with the construction of new campuses to enrol more undergraduate students. At the same time, they are reaching upwards with the introduction of more graduate programmes to ensure a steady supply of qualified professors and researchers. 

The UNESCO report presents data and analysis to better understand the factors driving the expansion in undergraduate and graduate education across Asia. This document provides the data and the analysis to help countries across the region and beyond to find their own balance in expanding ‘up and out’ in terms of higher education and research. 

You can find this report to the following address: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/higher-education-asia-gradu…