ANALYSIS OF HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY: A LOOK BACK AT TWO DECADES OF UNIVERSITY AUTONOMY IN THAILAND
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The effort to transfer all Thai universities under the bureaucratic system to autonomous universities to promote university autonomy has been originally initiated by those in higher education arena. However, this paper argues that due to the different influential contexts, the concept of university autonomy and the ideologies dominated and developed from the beginning are inconsistent with those of later stages. Hence, this has led to resistances and struggles amongst interest groups including those who wished for it at the outset. Based on Vidovich’s conceptual framework, this paper thus aims to analyse the policy process in relation to the ideologies dominating the policy, the role of the nation state, and the policy effects on universities. The paper finally concludes the extent the framework has offered the understanding of the development of the policy and its effects on Thai universities.
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