TY - CHAP
T1 - Cambodian Higher Education Governance
T2 - The Politics of Global Summitry and Clientelism
AU - Brehm, Will
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This chapter uses the concepts of “global summitry” and “clientelism” to theorize higher education governance in Cambodia. After reviewing the history of higher education since the 1960s, the chapter analyzes the country’s experiences amid regional attempts to harmonize standards, degree structures, quality assurance systems, and credit systems in Southeast Asia. Rather than explicit intervention into Cambodia’s higher education sector as has been historically common, the contemporary order transmits policy and governance practices through various regional and international forums, creating a seemingly homogenous system of higher education. External influence through global summitry, however, must be paired with a recognition of the prevalence of clientelism. By exploring the case of the Accreditation Council of Cambodia, higher education governance is shown to reproduce the engrained system of clientelism, empowering elites and contributing further to systems of informal patronage. The chapter concludes with recent (up to April 2016) developments in higher education governance, offering some observations and obstacles for future development in the sector.
AB - This chapter uses the concepts of “global summitry” and “clientelism” to theorize higher education governance in Cambodia. After reviewing the history of higher education since the 1960s, the chapter analyzes the country’s experiences amid regional attempts to harmonize standards, degree structures, quality assurance systems, and credit systems in Southeast Asia. Rather than explicit intervention into Cambodia’s higher education sector as has been historically common, the contemporary order transmits policy and governance practices through various regional and international forums, creating a seemingly homogenous system of higher education. External influence through global summitry, however, must be paired with a recognition of the prevalence of clientelism. By exploring the case of the Accreditation Council of Cambodia, higher education governance is shown to reproduce the engrained system of clientelism, empowering elites and contributing further to systems of informal patronage. The chapter concludes with recent (up to April 2016) developments in higher education governance, offering some observations and obstacles for future development in the sector.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-13-9294-8_12
DO - 10.1007/978-981-13-9294-8_12
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789811392931
T3 - Higher Education in Asia
SP - 229
EP - 243
BT - Higher Education Governance in Asia: Policy Approaches, Innovations and Transitions
A2 - S. L. Jarvis, Darryl
A2 - Mok, Ka Ho
PB - Springer
CY - Singapore
ER -