Higher Education Reform in China

• Author : W. John Morgan,Bin Wu
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 31 March 2011

A major transformation of Chinese higher education (HE) has taken place over the past decade – China has reshaped its higher education sector from elite to mass education with the number of graduates having quadrupled to three million a year over six years. China is exceptional among lower income countries in using tertiary education as a development strategy on such a scale, aiming to improve the quality of its graduates, and make HE available to as many of its citizens as

• Author : Hong Zhen Zhu,Shiyan Lou
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 05 September 2011

The Chinese higher education sector is an area subject to increasing attention from an international perspective. Written by authors centrally located within the education system in China, Development and Reform of Higher Education in China highlights not only the development of different aspects of higher education, but also the reform of the education system and its role in the educational and social development of the country. This book analyses recently collected data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : World Bank Publications
• Release : 01 January 1997

This report traces and evaluates donor and African government strategies for agricultural and rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past 30 years. The author reviews the history and effects of the failed strategies of the 1970s and 1980s (for example, integrated rural development, single-crop development, agricultural credit projects, irrigation projects, and support for social and agricultural services) and analyzes why they were unsuccessful. He also looks at recent approaches to agricultural and rural development in Africa and makes recommendations regarding

• Author : Guangli Zhou,Xiang Zhou
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 11 May 2019

This book examines educational development and reform in contemporary China and focuses on some of the major issues facing education in both rural and urban areas, across the spectrum of primary, secondary, higher, adult and vocational educational pathways. The book reflects on Chinese educational strategies at a time of rapid development of the market economy and the need to promote the modernization of education. It also considers how social reform and educational changes go hand in hand and discusses the

• Author : Ruiqing Du
• Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
• Release : 05 June 1992

Examines and critically interprets the extensive reforms and developments in the management, structure, faculty, students, and international exchange in Chinese higher education, during a decade of profound political, economic, and social turbulence. Also summarizes the entire 3,000-year history of

• Author : Suzanne Pepper
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 10 July 2000

The first comprehensive book to cover the whole sweep of twentieth-century Chinese education.

• Author : Yongmei Hu,Yipeng Tang
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 31 December 2021

Based on a systematic literature review, the book aims to forecast the investment scale of Chinese higher education and the allocation structure of different types of higher education institutions in the next decade. The authors first introduce the complex setting of Chinese higher education finance, including the background and theoretical foundation, as well as an in-depth literature review. Via international comparative data, they explore the adequacy and equity of the financial resources. By applying quantitative methods, such as panel data

• Author : Bin Wu,W. John Morgan
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 26 June 2015

In place of a distributive justice perspective which focuses simply on equal access to universities, this book presents a broader understanding of the relationship between Chinese higher education and economic and social change. The necessity for research on the place of universities in contemporary Chinese society may be seen from current debates about and policy towards issues of educational inequality at Chinese universities. Many questions arise as a consequence: What are the limitations of neo-liberalism in higher education policy and

• Author : Guihua Liu,Xiaofei Wang
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 25 September 2020

This book ambitiously presents the current directions and goals of the Chinese idea of modernization in education. Searching for a neutral way to understand educational reform and policy-making in the midst of many different theories in the field, the authors combine the theories of ecology, regional studies, and educational philosophy to focus on the hot topics relating to the current problems in Chinese education. In addition to the theory of education, it offers an interdisciplinary approach to educational policy and

• Author : Ling Li,Jiafu Zheng,Zeyuan Yu
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 29 December 2017

In this book, the authors pursue quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches, conducting hundreds of large-scale surveys and in-depth interviews in 679 schools, 67 counties and 13 provinces throughout China. They also conducted longitudinal case studies in five municipalities and provinces to better reflect education reform and development in different education levels or sectors. The authors used national statistical data from the 1970s to 2013, as well as a wealth of first-hand documents and data from different levels of educational departments in schools, counties,

• Author : Jian Li,Eryong Xue
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 15 September 2020

This book examines the ways education reform has been shaped in China. Focusing on the past education policy development, it offers unique perspectives to illustrate China’s education reform and provides an overview of policies and their implications. In addition, the book discusses educational development, educational value, educational efforts and educational tasks and explores physical, aesthetic and labor education, as well as the management of off-campus training institutions and the policies on abolishing the “Five Only” in contemporary China. Conceptualizing

• Author : Joseph Zajda,W. James Jacob
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 16 April 2022

This book examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy shifts globally, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven education and policy research. It critiques the neo-liberal ideological imperatives of current higher education and policy reforms, and illustrates the way that changes in the relationship between the state and higher education policy affect current trends in higher education reforms. Using diverse comparative education paradigms from critical theory to historical-comparative research, the chapters focus on

• Author : Ruth Hayhoe
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 22 July 2016

Recent events in Tianamen Square have made such books abruptly important, though in some aspects outdated. This one examines reforms in higher education from before the republic to March 1988, and focuses on educational and economic relations with groups outside China, and the effect the reforms may

• Author : Qi Li,Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 29 November 2013

This book will examine how universities in China and the US are responding to markets and increasing global competition. For both countries, a university education is seen as key to economic development. While China and the US have two very different political systems, they represent the two largest economies in the world and share beliefs that higher education plays an integral role to economic development. The book will bring together scholars with multiple perspectives on the topic to create dialogue

• Author : Ruiquan Gao,Guanjun Wu
• Publisher : World Scientific Publishing
• Release : 27 November 2018

China's Education Reform: Current Issues and New Horizons collects important research findings of education studies on China conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. The book covers topics including the rebuilding of contemporary Chinese education reform, the breakthrough of China's pedagogy, problems facing the education reform, and the ecological orientation of education technology, among others. This book is the fourth volume in the WSPC-ECNU Series on China. The WSPC-ECNU Series showcases the significant contributions