CIES SAIS SIG Gives the 2025 Best Book Award to a Book on the Outcomes of the Research Project “Empirical Research on Impacts of Study Abroad in Developing Countries”

JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development (JICA Ogata Research Institute) conducted the research project “Empirical Research on Impacts of Study Abroad in Developing Countries- based on Study Abroad Experiences of Academic Professionals of Major Universities in ASEAN Countries- .” The book, “Impacts of Study Abroad on Higher Education Development: Examining the Experiences of Faculty at Leading Universities in Southeast Asia ,” published as an outcome of this research project, won the 2025 Best Book Award from the Study Abroad and International Students Special Interest Group (SAIS SIG) of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) in March 2025.

This is one of several awards that are annually given by SAIS SIG, which is a working group within CIES, the world’s largest international academic society in the field of education. “Impacts of Study Abroad on Higher Education Development: Examining the Experiences of Faculty at Leading Universities in Southeast Asia” was praised and won the award for the following reasons: it provides new perspectives on the roles of international academic experience in the establishment of higher education systems; and it is expected to contribute significantly to the acceleration of the development and internationalization of higher education.

The CIES annual conference was held in Chicago, US, between March 22 and 26, 2025. The book’s co-editor, Kuroda Kazuo , Visiting Fellow, JICA Ogata Research Institute (also a professor at Waseda University), and co-authors Sarah R. Asada, Associate Professor, Kyoritsu Women’s University and JungHyun Jasmine Ryu, Head, Center for Global Education, University of Tokyo, gave presentations during a book talk session and attended the Awards Ceremony on March 25.

Kayashima Nobuko , Senior Research Advisor, JICA Ogata Research Institute, is the first editor of the book. She has commented upon the book winning this award. “In this research project, a questionnaire survey was sent to faculty members of higher education institutions in four ASEAN member states and responses were collected from as many as 3,300 faculty members. From this large data set, we were able to gather many useful findings and policy implications. I sincerely hope that these will contribute in some way to higher education policies in the ASEAN region as well as to Japan’s policy on inbound international students. The large-scale survey, data analysis and writing for this book were completed thanks to the scholars who participated in this research project from Japan and the ASEAN region. I am truly grateful for their participation.”

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