Angela Yung-Chi Hou
Biographic Data
| ID | 1501403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Yung-Chi Hou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela Yung-Chi |
| FAMILY NAME | Hou |
| SIGNATURE | HOU A Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Chengchi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3349-5671 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Myth or Merit? A Reassessment of the “Monks From Afar” Effect in Taiwan's Dual‐Track Talent Policy in Higher Education
In response to global talent competition and the goal of building world‐class universities, Taiwan's government introduced talent policies to enhance research capacity and international visibility. This study employs a mixed‐methods design to analyse the distribution of four main awardee types in alignment with Taiwan's dual talent policies and assess their research productivity, impact, and collaboration using bibliometric methods. Semi‐structur…
English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) as opportunity or burden? Research pressure and teaching responsibilities for faculty in Taiwan’s non-English-dominant context
Did Global Rankings and National Accreditation Drive Taiwanese Universities to Advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?—Competitive Advantage, a Moral Symbol or Leading to a Paradigm Shift
Universities have recognised the pivotal role they play in advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to build a sustainable society. Two quality assessment instruments in higher education, global rankings and quality assurance , have developed a new set of metrics to measure university commitment to SDGs. This paper aims to analyse the SDGs advancement of Taiwan's 46 universities listed in THE Impact Ranking 2022 in response to the emerging …
Does quality assurance matter for micro-credentials in higher education? Legitimacy, regulatory framework, and challenges in four Asian contexts
As a form of alternative credentials, the growth of micro-credentials (MCs) is seen as a significant manifestation of global higher education in the post pandemic era. Following global development, Asian governments have encouraged universities to provide a variety of MCs to existing students and workers. Given that non-traditional or short learning programs in most Asian contexts have not been incorporated into national qualification frameworks …
Are Taiwan private universities ready for a tsunami in the era of under-enrolment? Exploring Taiwanese private higher education in typology, regulatory framework, and emerging crisis
How do Quality Assurance Agencies in Asia Measure Higher Education? Exploring Approaches, Emerging Standards, and Challenges
Game of Brains: Examining Researcher Brain Gain and Brain Drain and Research University Policy
The battle for legitimacy of ‘student involvement’ in external quality assurance of higher education from Asian QA perspectives – does policy contextualization matter
Student involvement, through formal representation in external quality assurance (EQA) has attracted the attention of governments, higher education institutions (HEIs) and quality assurance agencies worldwide. This study aims to explore current developments and the legitimacy of student involvement in EQA agencies in the Asian context. There are several major findings. First, more than a half of responding accreditors in Asia have already engaged…
What Has Been the Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Digitalization, Innovation and Crisis Management of Higher Education and Quality Assurance?—A Taiwan Case Study in Alignment with the Inqaahe Virtual Re…
What is driving Taiwan government for policy change in higher education after the year of 2016 - in search of egalitarianism or pursuit of academic excellence
Due to global influence and local demand, Taiwan's higher education system has experienced great changes in policy agenda and system reform over the past few decades. After President Tsai took the presidential office in 2016, the Ministry of Education (MOE) shifted its focus towards universities’ autonomy and social responsibility, which encouraged institutions to strengthen their partnerships and collaborations with other ASEAN countries. Based …
Graduate employment in higher education: Applying bibliometrics to world-system theory
As massification of higher education developed, employment challenges in changing labour markets aroused the attention of scholars globally. An interdisciplinary approach called world-system theory is applied by scholars from the social sciences, history, anthropology and cultural studies. This study applied the theory in a bibliometric analysis of graduate employment research using R and CiteSpace. It identified the main characteristics (e.g. au…
Relationship between ‘employability’ and ‘higher education’ from global ranker and accreditor’s perspectives—does a gap exist between institutional policy making and implementation in taiwan higher ed…
Driven by global rankings and national quality assurance (QA) initiatives, Taiwan’s higher education institutions were encouraged to develop strategic plans and initiatives, in order to improve graduate student employability. The purpose of this study is to explore the polices and strategies adopted by Taiwanese higher education institutions, with a particular focus on ‘employability’, in terms of standards and indicators of QS ranking and Higher…
Is quality assurance relevant to overseas qualification recognition in Asian higher education? Examining the regulatory framework and the roles of quality assurance agencies and professional accredito…
The engagement of quality assurance in the recognition process of overseas qualifications became an emerging issue in Asian nations with the increased interest in student mobility in the region in the 21st Century. This study explores the links between quality assurance and qualification recognition, and approaches adopted within national regulatory frameworks in the Asia Pacific region from the perspective of quality assurance agencies. Three ma…
A preliminary exploration of crisis management approach on higher education and quality assurance in Taiwan under Covid-19 pandemic: Relevance to other contexts
In alignment with the Central Epidemic Center (CECC) measures and Ministry of Education (MOE) policy, Taiwan's universities took actions to ensure campus safely and continued quality of learning. At the same time, quality assurance agencies in Taiwan responded to the new mode of online instruction during the pandemic. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of virus pandemic on higher education and quality assurance. Crisis management appr…
Quality assurance of joint degree programmes: What Asia can learn from Erasmus Mundus joint degree programmes in Europe
Over the past decade, with the support of Erasmus Mundus, the number of joint degree programmes in Europe has increased rapidly. In Asia, joint degree programmes have also gained popularity due to the growth of transnational higher education in the region since 2000. However, a joint degree programme is a highly complex and coordinated activity for the university partners involved. Cooperation and coordination are crucial for the quality of any j…
Recognition of academic qualifications in transnational higher education and challenges for recognizing a joint degree in Europe and Asia
Since the 1950s, the Council of Europe has established conventions and information networks to enhance student mobility and qualification recognition in Europe. In contrast, Asia did not take this issue into consideration until 1983, when the UNESCO Regional Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees in Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific (the ‘1983 Convention’) was adopted. The recognition of a joint degree when the scho…
Transforming the quality assurance framework for Taiwanese higher education: A glonacal context
In an interconnected world, higher education systems, the institutions that comprise them, educational policy makers, quality assurance agencies are all supposed to interact simultaneously in a global, national, and local, or glonacal, context. Like some other Asian nations, Taiwan has been developing its glonacal quality assurance framework. At the same time, it attempted to give more institutional autonomy to universities by awarding them a sel…
Quality in cross-border higher education and challenges for the internationalization of national quality assurance agencies in the Asia-Pacific region: The Taiwanese experience
Cross-border higher education has created a need to build capacity – particularly in the internationalization dimension – for national quality assurance agencies to evaluate cross-border education provided by foreign educational providers, or jointly by local and foreign institutions. This is quickly becoming a key issue in the Asia-Pacific region. National accrediting agencies in Asia, which implement accrediting tasks domestically, are attempti…
What is driving Taiwan government for policy change in higher education after the year of 2016 - in search of egalitarianism or pursuit of academic excellence
Due to global influence and local demand, Taiwan's higher education system has experienced great changes in policy agenda and system reform over the past few decades. After President Tsai took the presidential office in 2016, the Ministry of Education (MOE) shifted its focus towards universities’ autonomy and social responsibility, which encouraged institutions to strengthen their partnerships and collaborations with other ASEAN countries. Based …
Quality in cross-border higher education and challenges for the internationalization of national quality assurance agencies in the Asia-Pacific region: The Taiwanese experience
Cross-border higher education has created a need to build capacity – particularly in the internationalization dimension – for national quality assurance agencies to evaluate cross-border education provided by foreign educational providers, or jointly by local and foreign institutions. This is quickly becoming a key issue in the Asia-Pacific region. National accrediting agencies in Asia, which implement accrediting tasks domestically, are attempti…
What Has Been the Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Digitalization, Innovation and Crisis Management of Higher Education and Quality Assurance?—A Taiwan Case Study in Alignment with the Inqaahe Virtual Re…
Transforming the quality assurance framework for Taiwanese higher education: A glonacal context
In an interconnected world, higher education systems, the institutions that comprise them, educational policy makers, quality assurance agencies are all supposed to interact simultaneously in a global, national, and local, or glonacal, context. Like some other Asian nations, Taiwan has been developing its glonacal quality assurance framework. At the same time, it attempted to give more institutional autonomy to universities by awarding them a sel…
Quality in cross-border higher education and challenges for the internationalization of national quality assurance agencies in the Asia-Pacific region: The Taiwanese experience
Cross-border higher education has created a need to build capacity – particularly in the internationalization dimension – for national quality assurance agencies to evaluate cross-border education provided by foreign educational providers, or jointly by local and foreign institutions. This is quickly becoming a key issue in the Asia-Pacific region. National accrediting agencies in Asia, which implement accrediting tasks domestically, are attempti…
Recognition of academic qualifications in transnational higher education and challenges for recognizing a joint degree in Europe and Asia
Since the 1950s, the Council of Europe has established conventions and information networks to enhance student mobility and qualification recognition in Europe. In contrast, Asia did not take this issue into consideration until 1983, when the UNESCO Regional Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees in Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific (the ‘1983 Convention’) was adopted. The recognition of a joint degree when the scho…
Quality assurance of joint degree programmes: What Asia can learn from Erasmus Mundus joint degree programmes in Europe
Over the past decade, with the support of Erasmus Mundus, the number of joint degree programmes in Europe has increased rapidly. In Asia, joint degree programmes have also gained popularity due to the growth of transnational higher education in the region since 2000. However, a joint degree programme is a highly complex and coordinated activity for the university partners involved. Cooperation and coordination are crucial for the quality of any j…
Graduate employment in higher education: Applying bibliometrics to world-system theory
As massification of higher education developed, employment challenges in changing labour markets aroused the attention of scholars globally. An interdisciplinary approach called world-system theory is applied by scholars from the social sciences, history, anthropology and cultural studies. This study applied the theory in a bibliometric analysis of graduate employment research using R and CiteSpace. It identified the main characteristics (e.g. au…
Relationship between ‘employability’ and ‘higher education’ from global ranker and accreditor’s perspectives—does a gap exist between institutional policy making and implementation in taiwan higher ed…
Driven by global rankings and national quality assurance (QA) initiatives, Taiwan’s higher education institutions were encouraged to develop strategic plans and initiatives, in order to improve graduate student employability. The purpose of this study is to explore the polices and strategies adopted by Taiwanese higher education institutions, with a particular focus on ‘employability’, in terms of standards and indicators of QS ranking and Higher…
Is quality assurance relevant to overseas qualification recognition in Asian higher education? Examining the regulatory framework and the roles of quality assurance agencies and professional accredito…
The engagement of quality assurance in the recognition process of overseas qualifications became an emerging issue in Asian nations with the increased interest in student mobility in the region in the 21st Century. This study explores the links between quality assurance and qualification recognition, and approaches adopted within national regulatory frameworks in the Asia Pacific region from the perspective of quality assurance agencies. Three ma…
A preliminary exploration of crisis management approach on higher education and quality assurance in Taiwan under Covid-19 pandemic: Relevance to other contexts
In alignment with the Central Epidemic Center (CECC) measures and Ministry of Education (MOE) policy, Taiwan's universities took actions to ensure campus safely and continued quality of learning. At the same time, quality assurance agencies in Taiwan responded to the new mode of online instruction during the pandemic. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of virus pandemic on higher education and quality assurance. Crisis management appr…
The battle for legitimacy of ‘student involvement’ in external quality assurance of higher education from Asian QA perspectives – does policy contextualization matter
Student involvement, through formal representation in external quality assurance (EQA) has attracted the attention of governments, higher education institutions (HEIs) and quality assurance agencies worldwide. This study aims to explore current developments and the legitimacy of student involvement in EQA agencies in the Asian context. There are several major findings. First, more than a half of responding accreditors in Asia have already engaged…
What Has Been the Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Digitalization, Innovation and Crisis Management of Higher Education and Quality Assurance?—A Taiwan Case Study in Alignment with the Inqaahe Virtual Re…
What is driving Taiwan government for policy change in higher education after the year of 2016 - in search of egalitarianism or pursuit of academic excellence
Due to global influence and local demand, Taiwan's higher education system has experienced great changes in policy agenda and system reform over the past few decades. After President Tsai took the presidential office in 2016, the Ministry of Education (MOE) shifted its focus towards universities’ autonomy and social responsibility, which encouraged institutions to strengthen their partnerships and collaborations with other ASEAN countries. Based …
Game of Brains: Examining Researcher Brain Gain and Brain Drain and Research University Policy
Are Taiwan private universities ready for a tsunami in the era of under-enrolment? Exploring Taiwanese private higher education in typology, regulatory framework, and emerging crisis
How do Quality Assurance Agencies in Asia Measure Higher Education? Exploring Approaches, Emerging Standards, and Challenges
Did Global Rankings and National Accreditation Drive Taiwanese Universities to Advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?—Competitive Advantage, a Moral Symbol or Leading to a Paradigm Shift
Universities have recognised the pivotal role they play in advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to build a sustainable society. Two quality assessment instruments in higher education, global rankings and quality assurance , have developed a new set of metrics to measure university commitment to SDGs. This paper aims to analyse the SDGs advancement of Taiwan's 46 universities listed in THE Impact Ranking 2022 in response to the emerging …
Does quality assurance matter for micro-credentials in higher education? Legitimacy, regulatory framework, and challenges in four Asian contexts
As a form of alternative credentials, the growth of micro-credentials (MCs) is seen as a significant manifestation of global higher education in the post pandemic era. Following global development, Asian governments have encouraged universities to provide a variety of MCs to existing students and workers. Given that non-traditional or short learning programs in most Asian contexts have not been incorporated into national qualification frameworks …
Myth or Merit? A Reassessment of the “Monks From Afar” Effect in Taiwan's Dual‐Track Talent Policy in Higher Education
In response to global talent competition and the goal of building world‐class universities, Taiwan's government introduced talent policies to enhance research capacity and international visibility. This study employs a mixed‐methods design to analyse the distribution of four main awardee types in alignment with Taiwan's dual talent policies and assess their research productivity, impact, and collaboration using bibliometric methods. Semi‐structur…
English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) as opportunity or burden? Research pressure and teaching responsibilities for faculty in Taiwan’s non-English-dominant context
Higher education (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (15 works) · Business (11 works) · Marketing (11 works) · Quality assurance (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Higher Education Learning Practices (9 works)