This edited volume argues for positioning students at the centre of higher education, drawing from the concepts of student agency and self-formation. The volume highlights that higher education has broader and more important purposes than what a neoliberal human capital approach would suggest, and explores how students exercise their agency and realise self-formation as inherently connected concepts throughout university education. With disciplinary, cultural, and contextual diversity, this volume will provide international perspectives to readers interested in higher education theories, policies, and practices.

Yusuf Ikbal Oldac is Hong Kong Research Grants Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University.

Lili Yang is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong.

Soyoung Lee is a PhD candidate in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK.