Higher Education in Asia

   University entrance ratio is around 50-70% in the east Asia such as Japan(48%), Taiwan(48%) and Korea(83%) and Pacific area such as Australia(63%) and New Zealand(69%). Considering the economic development, it is understandable like other developed countries in the western area.

  The countries in the north Africa and Arabian gulf area are focusing on a higher education by using the oil money for a decade showing 20-70% entrance ratio. Ironically "the Arab spring" was led by those university students.

  Looking at the south east Asia, the philippines shows the highest ratio as 48% followed by Thailand(35%),Singapore(34%),Malaysia(28%) and HongKong(20%). The ratio has been trippled for two decades due to the strong economic growth.

  The current emerging countries such as Indonesia (15%), South Africa(15%),Iran(15%),UAE(12%),India(11%),Vietnam(10%) and China(8%) are producing a massive number of graduates. The most of these countries have a bigger population. The number of the college graduates in 2006 was 3.3 million in China and 3.1 million in India versus 1.3 million in US. The biggest country who can speak English will be China in anoher five years.

  The rest of African countries shows still under 5%.

   Let's look at the quality of the universities by the world universuty ranking.

   The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-2013 powered by Thomson Reuters are the global university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

  According to them, Japan has 2 universities in the top world 100 such as Tokyo(No27) and Kyoto(No50), 6 in Australia, 3 in Korea,2 in Singapore,Hong Kong and China.

  Singapore and Hong Kong are small countries but they are focusing on the education very much since the human resource is the only one that they have.

  So what can we predict from these data?

  The education level will rise in the emerging countries. The people who will have a higher education in these countries will impact on the culture, economy and politics globally.

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