@phdthesis{discovery10020423,
            note = {Thesis: (PhD) University of London Institute of Education, 2003.},
           title = {Ideologies, policies, and the control of the university systems in England and Japan},
            year = {2003},
          school = {Institute of Education, University of London},
          author = {Yokoyama, Keiko.},
             url = {http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404679},
        abstract = {This thesis analyses the transformation of the university systems of England and
Japan since the early 1980s, with particular reference to the changing modalities of
university autonomy and the power relationships between central authorities, the
universities, and the market. The analysis compares the various policy positions
of the relevant stakeholders in the two countries, highlighting the ideologies of
neo-liberalism, university autonomy, new managerialism, and vocationalism.
These ideologies coexist in both the English and the Japanese university systems.
However, the interpretations of these ideologies made by stakeholders, the patterns
of the interrelations between them, and their contextualisation as elements in the
policy and stance of each stakeholder, differ between England and Japan.
The thesis argues that convergence between the English and Japanese
university systems are, to a large extent, explained in the 1980s transformation of
the university system in England, and the continuity of the Ministerial
jurisdictional mechanism in Japan. In England, the transformation of the
university system has been related to changes in government policies and
ideologies - around the themes of neo-liberalism, new managerialism, university
autonomy, and vocationalism in the era of the global economy - and changes in
policies and functions of the University Grants Committee, and of the universities.
In Japan, the continuity of the Ministerial jurisdictional mechanism has been
largely linked to the establishment of anti-neo-liberal consensus within the
Education Ministry in the early 1980s, the close anti-neo-liberal stance between
the Education Ministry and the national universities in the 1990s, and
confrontation and compromises between neo-liberal and anti-neo-liberal groups
since the 1980s. The thesis suggests that the continuity of distinct and divergent
features between England and Japan can be explained contextually, giving
attention to political, economic, socio-cultural, and historical differences between
the two university systems.}
}