Internationalization of Japanese Universities: Current Status and Future Directions

Higher Education Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2011, Pages 343-359

  Kudo, Kazuhiro ^a   Hashimoto, Hiroko ^b  

^a DOKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Global Ranking; High Education Time; International Engagement; International Student; Mass High Education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865470034     PISSN: 15710378     EISSN: 22151923     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1500-4_18     Document Type: Chapter

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