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Higher Education in China

Autor Jianmin Gu, Xueping Li, Lihua Wang
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This book offers international readers a comprehensive introduction to higher education in China, and will help readers around the globe make sense of the huge and complex machinery that makes up the university and college sector in China today. It accompanies readers step by step, allowing them to understand the most important aspects of this sector in China – its history and development, its scope and structure, its operational system and management, and its enrollment and employment processes. It also provides an overview of the various levels of higher education in China, namely: specialized higher education, undergraduate education, postgraduate education, research and faculty. In short, the book will tell you what higher education in China is and how it works. 

While economic globalization and internationalization of higher education have greatly reduced the differences among educational systems in various countries, it cannot be denied that any given country’s higher education system needs to be deeply rooted in its culture and traditions. In this book, we highlight several distinctive characteristics of higher education in China, including: the ancient roots and modern history, massive scale, diversity, and centralized management and pragmatic trends.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789811308444
ISBN-10: 9811308446
Pagini: 228
Ilustrații: XXI, 234 p. 5 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer Nature Singapore
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Singapore, Singapore

Cuprins

History of Higher Education.- Structure of Higher Education.- Higher Education Management.- Admission and Graduate Employment.- Specialized Higher Education.- Undergraduate Education.- Postgraduate Education.- Research in HEIs.- Teaching Staff in HEIs.

Notă biografică

Professor Gu Jianmin is a scholar in the field of higher education management and policy in China with several published manuscripts in the field and hundreds of journal articles. He has produced several books on the development and reform of tenure systems in the UK, the US and Germany,  the development strategy of private higher education in China, science popularization at higher education institutions, the models and formations of university governance, and essentials of engineering education, etc. He also serves as a senior administrator at the College of Education, Zhejiang University.  

Xueping Li is an assistant professor at the Institute of Higher Education, Zhejiang University, whose research interests lie in institutional research, general education at undergraduate colleges, and comparative education. He has published a book on the curriculum development of general education at American universities, as well as dozens of researcharticles in Chinese journals.

Lihua Wang is an associate professor at the Institute of Higher Education, Zhejiang University, whose primary research interests include performance-related policies in the field of higher education, international and comparative education, as well as educational policy and leadership. She has published several manuscripts on performance-based funding in China and England, the competitiveness of academic disciplines at world-class universities, and models of undergraduate education from an international perspective. She has also published dozens of research articles in Chinese and English-language journals.

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This book offers international readers a comprehensive introduction to higher education in China, and will help readers around the globe make sense of the huge and complex machinery that makes up the university and college sector in China today. It accompanies readers step by step, allowing them to understand the most important aspects of this sector in China – its history and development, its scope and structure, its operational system and management, and its enrollment and employment processes. It also provides an overview of the various levels of higher education in China, namely: specialized higher education, undergraduate education, postgraduate education, research and faculty. In short, the book will tell you what higher education in China is and how it works. 

While economic globalization and internationalization of higher education have greatly reduced the differences among educational systems in various countries, it cannot be denied that any given country’s higher education system needs to be deeply rooted in its culture and traditions. In this book, we highlight several distinctive characteristics of higher education in China, including: the ancient roots and modern history; massive scale; diversity; and centralized management and pragmatic trends.


Caracteristici

Provides a systematic analysis of developments in higher education in contemporary China Dispels misconceptions about the administration and student life at Chinese higher education institutions Provides succinct analyses of college degree programs