50% of Japanese 14 year olds attend “juku” (cram schools); and over 90% undergo “juken jijoku” (”examination hell”) striving to succeed in senior school entrance exams. The result is statistics which are the envy of the world; a 99% level of literacy and the consistent ability of her school students to out-perform the pupils of other nations. Consequently educationalists in Britian and America have increasingly looked to Japan to discover why over 90% of her young...

In the UK, the end of the binary line has meant an immediate increase in the number of universities, with added pressures on those institutions. But how far has the system really changed to meet the new challenges - and the old ones? This book examines changes in the student population, in teaching and learning processes, in funding, leadership and organizational styles. It places these in a broad international context, with contributions drawing on experience from North America, Australasia, Africa,...