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Dear International Office representatives,
Thank you very much for your participation in our survey. As higher education evolves in today’s globalized world, our research aims to better understand the current international efforts in higher education. International Offices play a vital role in fostering internationalization, and your input is highly valuable to us.
This survey consists of 15 questions in total and should take approximately 15 minutes to finish. We sincerely appreciate your time and dedication in advance. Your responses will be kept confidential. Thank you for being an essential part of our research.
About our research project
This survey is part of the project titled “Comprehensive Approaches of Area Studies on Connectivity and Innovation of Higher Education in Asia” funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A).
This research project is an area study that comprehensively analyzes higher education and innovation in Asia and the Pacific from two aspects: intergovernmental and interuniversity competition and cooperation. Higher education in Asia and the Pacific has its unique model that combines competition and cooperation by enhancing “connectivity” among individuals, programs, and institutions. However, the question is how has the “connectivity” enhanced international competitiveness of higher education and research in Asia and the Pacific, and contributed to the development of science and technology? This research aims to theorize these questions through qualitative and quantitative research methods, such as survey and case studies, and present a unique higher education model specific to Asia and the Pacific.
This survey is particularly designed to understand the transformations and innovations occurring in universities in Asia and the Pacific within the context of international relations and societal structures today. It aims to uncover the recent trend of “internationalization” that many universities have been actively pursuing, its current state and its impact.
About the Lead Researcher
Dr. Yuto Kitamura
- Professor, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo
- Director, The Center for Advanced School Education And Evidence-Based Research, The University of Tokyo
- Visiting Fellow, The JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development
Yuto Kitamura is a Professor at the Graduate School of Education and a Director of the Center for Advanced School Education and Evidence-Based Research at the University of Tokyo. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development.
He specializes in comparative education and has been conducting extensive research on the internationalization of higher education in Asia. He has also been researching the education policies of developing countries, particularly in Southeast Asia (mainly Cambodia).
He had worked at UNESCO and taught at Nagoya University and Sophia University. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar at the George Washington University, a Visiting Professor at the University of Dhaka, and a Special Advisor to the Rector of the Royal University of Phnom Penh.
He received B.A. in Education (Keio University) and M.A. and Ph.D. both in Education (UCLA).
For more information, please see the link below:
https://www.p.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yutod4/english/
Personal Information Protection
This survey is completely anonymized and no individual can be identified. Moreover, the data will be strictly managed and promptly destroyed after the completion of the research investigation in order to ensure that no individual responses are leaked to external parties.
Contractors
The implementation of this survey has been entrusted to ANZAS International Co., Ltd, under the supervision of the lead researcher for the “Comprehensive Approaches of Area Studies on Connectivity and Innovation of Higher Education in Asia”, Yuto Kitamura (The University of Tokyo). Therefore, responses will be collected by ANZAS International. The contract signed with this company contains provisions relating to the duty of confidentiality concerning personal data, and the personal data of respondents obtained through this survey will be appropriately handled and will under no circumstances be used for any purposes other than those of the research.
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