Student and Skilled Labour Mobility in the Asia Pacific Region

Shingo Ashizawa is a professor and Vice President at Kansai University of International Studies in Kobe. His research involves foreign credential evaluation, micro-credential and the comparative study of the National Qualifications Framework. He also leads several joint research projects funded by Japanese government agencies and the Toyota Foundation.

Deane E. Neubauer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA. He also currently serves as the Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP), headquartered at Lingnan University,  Hong Kong, which conducts a wide range of policy-focused research with a special focus on higher education.

Introduction: Student Mobility and the Emergent Fourth Industrial Revolution (Work 4.0).- Part I: The Fourth Industrial Revolution.- Chapter 1. The overall dimensions and prospects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.- Chapter 2. The changing roles of basic social institutions, including education and higher education in particular, within the Fourth Industrial Revolution.- Chapter 3. The impact and implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on student mobility in the Asia Pacific Region.- Part II: Direct Impacts of The 4th Industrial Revolution on Higher Education as a social enterprise.- Chapter 4. Linking higher education to changing patterns of job mobility and emergent patterns of technological change.- Chapter 5. Reassessing the overall dynamics of the push/pull factors that comprise student mobility currently and within the increasingly transformative framework of Work. 4.0.- Chapter 6. Changing dynamics occurring within Asia Pacific Student Mobility.- Chapter 7. Transforming the teaching experience.- Part III: Transformative impacts of the 4th Industrial Revolution on student mobility in the Asia Pacific Region.- Chapter 8. The birth of a global curriculum market and its impact on institutional strategy, program design and teaching practice.- Chapter 9. Changing Certification Modalities.- Chapter 10. Conclusion.