**Name**

ITOH Akihiro


**Affiliation**


Professor of Sociology of Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University


**Employment History**


Professor, Graduate School of Education and Human Development,2006
Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Research, 2002
Associate Professor, School of Education, Nagoya University, 1997
Reseacher, National Institute for Educational Research of Japan, 1993
Research Associate, Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, 1987



**Educational History**


Ph.D. in Education, Nagoya University,1997
M.A. in Education, Nagoya University, 1986
B.A. in Education, Sophia University,1984



**Research Interests**


Historical Sociology of Higher Education
Higher Education Policy
Quality Assurance in Higher Education
Transition from Higher Education to Work



**Recent Main Publications**

Higher Education in interwar Japan, Tamagawa University Press, 1999, 308p. (in Japanese)
"The University Council and Higher Education Policy," ed. by K. Kitamura, Higher Education and Policy Evaluation, Tamagawa University Press, 2000, pp.137-175. (in Japanese)
"Higher Education Reform in Perspective: The Japanese Experience", Higher Education, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2002, pp.7-25. (in English)
"Development of Historical Studies of Japanese Higher Educaiton," Higher
Education Research in Japan, Vol.4, January 2007, pp.51-75. (in English)