ABSTRACT
This chapter looks to the future, specifically the pressing question of how systems in East Asia will deal educationally with a declining youth population. In comparing recent policies and priorities in the three societies of the region that first achieved high school for all, it attempts to think about what comes next in this larger expansion storyline. It focuses on the specific policies these societies are employing to maintain their universal upper secondary systems, even whilst trying to lessen regional disparities and maintain some control over the balance between public and private provision.
