This book provides an overview of the growth of the private higher education sector in China and in addition provides an analysis of some of the key drivers of this growth and impediments to it. What is new about the book is that it combines the results of a series of interviews with work that...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. University social responsibility: research design -- Chapter 3. Japanese university information disclosure practices: a macroscopic perspective -- Chapter 4. Information disclosure at national and private universities: a microscopic perspective -- Chapter 5....

A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...