Full Description
From a fragile economy in the late 1970s, China overtook other major economies and became the world's second largest in 2010, next only to the United States. China's economic growth has strong implications for higher education, vital for creating human capital and technological innovations to support an increasingly knowledge-based economy. Since the late 1990s, Chinese higher education struck the world with its amazing pace of expansion, with the aggregate enrolment growing at an annual rate of 17 percent between 1998 and 2010. In 2007, the Chinese higher education system surpassed the American system in terms of enrolment size and became the world's largest. Against this backdrop, this book sheds light on the structural characteristics of Chinese higher education from the perspective of institutional differentiation and diversity. For this purpose, this book provides an insightful lens instrumental in capturing the forces and factors behind the scene of differentiation and diversity in the Chinese system, and an updated classification scheme of Chinese universities and colleges. These are not yet seen in any other literature in the field.
Contents
1. Introduction 2. The Making of Chinese Higher Education System: A Century of Eclectic Experimentation and Cultural Conflicts 3. Analytical Framework 4. Expansion of Chinese Higher Education since the Late 1990s: the Impact on Differentiation and Diversity of the System 5. Resurgence and Growth of Private Higher Education: the Implication for Differentiation and Diversity of the System 6. Emergence and Development of Transnational Higher Education on Chinese Soil: the Influence on Differentiation and Diversity of the System 7.The Case Studies: the Balancing Efforts and Strategies at Institutional Level 8. Towards a New Classification of Chinese Higher Education Institutions 9. Analyzing Differentiation and Diversity of Chinese Higher Education in the Global Context 10. Conclusion: Issues, Challenges and Policy Options
