Director: Daniel C. Levy

PROPHE Collaborating Scholar

Yonezawa, Akiyoshi

(Japan)

Email:       yonezawa@he.tohoku.ac.jp

Address:   Center for the Advancement of Higher Education (CAHE),

Tohoku University,41 Kawauchi, Aoba-Ku, Sendai,980-8576 Japan

Website: http://www.she.he.tohoku.ac.jp/yonezawa/

Biography

Akiyoshi Yonezawa , ( aka Aki), MA., University of Tokyo, is Associate Professor of Center for the Advancement of Higher Education (CAHE) in Tohoku University in Japan. Yonezawa is a researcher at the PROPHE Japanese partner center, the Research Institute for Independent Higher Education (RIIHE). His main research is on (1) public policies for private higher education in Japan, and (2) international comparisons of quality assurance systems, and he is especially interested in the financial structure and the market behavior of private higher education institutions. He is preparing his doctoral dissertation on Public Policy for Japanese Private Higher Education Since 1960s.Yonezawa's educational background is in the sociology and economics of higher education. His working experience includes consultant activity with the OECD, UNESCO, and Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA).

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