Download or read book Rationales for the Privatization of Higher Education in China written by Li Wang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last three decades have witnessed great social, political and economic change in China since the market reforms in the late 1970s. A market economy was adopted as a replacement to the planned economy in order to allocate resources more efficiently. Consequently, higher education in China has undergone dramatic reforms to adapt to this socio-economic transition. This paper adopts a mixed-methods approach, combining fieldwork data with documentary analysis, to investigate the rationales of privatization in Chinese universities. It starts by examining the conceptualization of privatization. This is followed by an introduction of the public/private mix in the higher education sector in China. It then turns to explore drivers of the higher education reforms. A key contribution of this paper is a systematic examination of the causes and the aims of privatization identified in Western literature set in the context of radical change as seen in the Chinese context. Drawing on fieldwork data, this paper presents findings that stand in conflict with prior studies. This investigation of the implementation of the Chinese privatization reveals both common features shared with Western practice but also a certain uniqueness. It concludes by arguing that the neo-liberal reforms in higher education in China are likely to be used as a contingency strategy to encourage private spending, rather than suggesting a paradigm shift in university governance.

Download or read book The Road to Privatization of Higher Education in China written by Li Wang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes both empirical and conceptual contributions to the debate on privatization of higher education in China. Empirically, it aims to fill a gap in our knowledge of privatization of higher education in North China. To this end, Beijing was chosen as a case for analysis, and nine local higher educational institutions were visited. The case study strategy is also complemented by an extensive review of national policies to reveal problems beyond the specific case of Beijing and of national concern. The effects of the cultural and socioeconomic background and the unique state-party controlling system on higher education management are stressed. Conceptually, most existing studies on privatization of higher education in China adopt a policy analysis approach, while research on privatization of other public sectors or in other countries is frequently guided by economic theories. This book thus seeks to combine both social policy and econometric approaches to provide a systematic and detailed investigation of the privatization process in the context of higher education. It also improves examines the applicability of western theories in the Chinese context.

Download or read book Privatization of Higher Education in China written by Li Wang and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Economic Impact of Government Policy on China s Private Higher Education Sector written by Xiaoying Ma and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the growth of the private higher education sector in China and in addition provides an analysis of some of the key drivers of this growth and impediments to it. What is new about the book is that it combines the results of a series of interviews with work that is more quantitative in nature. The book is of use to not only those engaged in academic research but also those who more generally wish to know more about an educational sector that is growing in importance. The most obvious factors promoting expansion of this sector have been the growth in per capita incomes, higher levels of participation in secondary school education, the strong growth in demand for graduates and the inability of the public sector to keep pace with demand. All of these factors intermingled with the involvement of government regulation. This regulation, however, is not uniform across all of China given the different provincial government departments of education that are also involved in dealing with private higher education institutions. In particular, this book looks at the way in which the Chinese government’s regulatory framework (both national and provincial) influenced the development of the sector and the way in which it operates, especially the private higher education component of that sector. The analysis undertaken finds that there is a link between regulation and the private higher education sector growth and a link between the funding of the government sector. The more intense regulation was, and the more funds provided to the state sector, the less scope there was for the private sector to expand. Growth of the private sector, therefore, did not just depend upon rising demand for higher education overall, but also to a fair degree of tolerance on the part of government. Much of this work, in subsequent years, has been supported by the further changes that have been undertaken in the Chinese higher education sector. Over the years, the growth of the Chinese higher education sector has stabilised, as has the private segment of this sector.

Download or read book Property Ownership and Private Higher Education in China written by Spring Su and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have witnessed the proliferation in China of huge numbers of private universities and colleges in response to a wide-ranging spectrum of socio-economic and political demands under the country's flourishing market economy and its wholesale pursuit of decentralization. This book explores the issue of property ownership, an area which is regarded as an essential element in the attraction into the sector of local private institutions and foreign partnerships, as well as in facilitating the future development of the country's existing institutions. The focus throughout this book is primarily on the legal, economic, managerial and financial aspects of the relevant issues, as well as other related topics, such as consumer protections and fund-raising activities. A feasibility analysis and discussion is also provided on 'for-profit' universities and their potential market niches in China, in recognition of the fact that the current regulations-which allow private universities to maintain a non-profit status whilst actually enjoying profit returns-clearly provides some legitimacy to the phenomenon of 'for-profit in disguise.' It is argued in this book that such quasi-profit regulations may further exacerbate profiteering behavior, whilst it is also noted that, in the short term, there is a clear need to provide adequate protections within the apparent hybrid version of an ownership system-a system characterized by a mix of capitalism and socialism-through the adoption of a definitive legal framework within which economic actors can coordinate their efforts through a mutually understood framework of action. Finally, it is clear that in the transition from the 'rule-of-the-people' to the 'rule-of-law,' legislation, practices and compliance do not always go hand-in-hand in China; thus the healthy development of the educational sector will undoubtedly require some time, as well as the introduction of complementary mechanisms, for such legislation to be fully enforced in practice. This book concludes with policy recommendations on the existing property ownership system in China to address both the profitability and altruistic concerns of private institutions, and provides suggestions for areas which might be explored to facilitate ongoing sector development.

Download or read book The Economic Impact of Government Policy on China s Private Higher Education Sector written by Xiaoying Ma and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the growth of the private higher education sector in China and in addition provides an analysis of some of the key drivers of this growth and impediments to it. What is new about the book is that it combines the results of a series of interviews with work that is more quantitative in nature. The book is of use to not only those engaged in academic research but also those who more generally wish to know more about an educational sector that is growing in importance. The most obvious factors promoting expansion of this sector have been the growth in per capita incomes, higher levels of participation in secondary school education, the strong growth in demand for graduates and the inability of the public sector to keep pace with demand. All of these factors intermingled with the involvement of government regulation. This regulation, however, is not uniform across all of China given the different provincial government departments of education that are also involved in dealing with private higher education institutions. In particular, this book looks at the way in which the Chinese government's regulatory framework (both national and provincial) influenced the development of the sector and the way in which it operates, especially the private higher education component of that sector. The analysis undertaken finds that there is a link between regulation and the private higher education sector growth and a link between the funding of the government sector. The more intense regulation was, and the more funds provided to the state sector, the less scope there was for the private sector to expand. Growth of the private sector, therefore, did not just depend upon rising demand for higher education overall, but also to a fair degree of tolerance on the part of government. Much of this work, in subsequent years, has been supported by the further changes that have been undertaken in the Chinese higher education sector. Over the years, the growth of the Chinese higher education sector has stabilised, as has the private segment of this sector. .

Download or read book Private Higher Education and the Labor Market in China written by Yingxia Cao and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Higher Education and the Labor Market in China focuses on Chinese private higher education institutions and investigates their institutional management efforts in linking private higher education to the labor market. The dissertation firstly describes and analyzes how these mostly demand-absorbing institutions include elements aimed at meeting labor market demands in their mission statements, and how they improve student employability and bridge graduates and employers through job-oriented fields of study provision, educational delivery, career services, as well as networking and partnerships. It then examines graduate surveys on initial employment outcomes about employment status, starting salary, job and education match, and job satisfaction, while exploring the associations of these outcomes with managed institutional efforts. Finally, it builds a conceptual model with two dimensions that illustrates institutional variations in management efforts and initial graduate employment outcomes. This dissertation concludes that many of the demand-absorbing Chinese private higher education institutions have managed serious efforts in linking private higher education to the labor market and some of them are even semi-elite in their job-oriented institutional efforts and initial employment outcomes.

Download or read book Critical Theorizations of Education written by Ali A. Abdi and published by Bold Visions in Educational Re. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the limited availability of related foci in the area of critical educational studies, Critical Theorizations of Education is timely in both its topical relevance and time-space-themed discursive interventions. With its overall scope, constructed as both a counter-and-forward looking critical reflections and analysis of some of the most salient and contemporaneously active platforms of education, it prospectively and relatively comprehensively expands on dynamically intersecting learning and teaching contexts and relationships. As such, the volume's contents by both established and emerging scholars, selectively locate the interplays of knowledge, learning and attendant power relations, which either transform or reproduce the status quo. Contributors are: Levonne Abshire, Claire Alkouatli, David Anderson, Neda Asadi, N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Gulbahar Beckett, José Cossa, Ratna Ghosh, Shibao Guo, Yan Guo, Carl E. James, Dip Kapoor, Festus Kelonye Beru, Ginette Lafreniere, Qing Li, Oliver Masakure, Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy, Greg William Misiaszek, Dolana Mogadime, Samson Nashon, Selline Ooko, Bathseba Opini, Amy Parent, Thashika Pillay, Edward Shizha, Kimberley Tavares, Alison Taylor, and Stacey Wilson-Forsberg"--

Download or read book Handbook of Education Policy Studies written by Guorui Fan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access handbook brings together the latest research from a wide range of internationally influential scholars to analyze educational policy research from international, historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. By effectively breaking through the boundaries between countries and disciplines, it presents new theories, techniques and methods for contemporary education policy, and illustrates the educational policies and educational reform practices that various countries have introduced to meet the challenges of continuous change. Based on an analysis of the nature of education policy and education reform, this volume focuses on education reform and the concept of education quality. Adopting a historical and comparative perspective, it examines the dialectical relationship between education policy and education reform in various countries, assesses theoretical and practical issues in the process of moving from regulation to multiple governance in contemporary education administration, and explores the impact of globalization on national education reform and the interdependence between countries. In addition, it presents studies addressing educational policy research methodology from multiple perspectives. Highlighting the changes in national education macro policies, this volume comprehensively reveals the complex relationship between contemporary education reform and social change, and explores the links between contemporary social, political and economic systems and educational policy research and practice, offering a holistic portrait of macro trends in contemporary education reform.

Download or read book The Development and Governance of Private Universities in China written by Xu Liu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the form and features of governance and the factors that shape governance in practice in private universities in China. Building on an exploration of the growth of private universities in China after the Communist Party took over the power, the study examines the specific context in China, including the role of the Communist Party, and integrates with shareholders and senior managers to achieve its governance role. It shows that two distinct forms of institutional governance have developed, namely the supervision form and the managerial form. While external policies provide an impetus for change for each university, how key actors in institutional governance understand these policies have significant effect on how the policies are implemented. This can result in change that can be viewed as either symbolic alteration or as operational change. The internal factors that act to shape institutional governance mainly relate to the different developmental stages of the private university, the characteristics of shareholders and senior managers, and the various ways the universities respond to the external policy.

Download or read book Developmental Challenges Experienced by Three Successful Private Higher Education Institutions in the People s Republic of China written by Xiaoqing Chen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the economy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has continued to grow at an unprecedented rate, the nation as a whole has embarked on a process of substantial cultural shift. Higher education has experienced a massive growth in enrollment. The increased demand for an educated workforce has placed stresses on the public education system, which has created opportunities for private higher education institutions (HEI). This dissertation explores the challenges faced by private HEIs in the PRC, focusing on the phenomena of privatization, massification, and marketization. Case studies of three successful private HEIs, which had been authorized by the Ministry of Education to award bachelor's degrees, are presented. Forty interviews with administrators, instructors, and students were conducted on campuses in Beijing, Shanghai, and Xi'an. Analysis of the interviews showed that the universities have experienced similar developmental challenges in regard to financing, administration, and instruction. A variety of coping strategies were employed by the three private HEIs to facilitate institutional survival and growth. This study demonstrated that private HEIs play a role in satisfying the demand for higher education of students who formerly would not typically have attended a university. However, substantial challenges still exist in the form of a widespread public perception that private HEIs are associated with low educational quality and status. The complications resulting from limited privatization, state-controlled marketization, and lack of equality in education have also shaped the character of these "private universities with Chinese characteristics." Recommendations concerning relaxed funding guidelines, social security system reform, and internationalization suggest a path to expansion and institutional improvement for the private HEIs.

Download or read book Colleges Between Public and Private An Ethnographic Case Study of Independent Colleges in China written by Xiaopeng Shen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independent colleges in China are a group of peculiar higher education institutions emerging in the late 1990s and expanding at a speed, hardly seen in any other higher education systems but maybe conceivable in the context of China's large college-aspiring population and miraculous economic development. One of the most peculiar things about independent colleges is their institutional nature - whether they are public or private. Building upon the literature context of privatization in education and China's higher education experience, this study investigates this young group of higher education institutions growing up in China's market reform era. The central research question focuses on the nature of these independent colleges from an insiders' perspective. Are they truly private higher education institutions born out of China's market reform efforts in the higher education sector? Or are they rather some market adapted extension of some public higher education institutions? To answer these questions, a macro-perspective analysis is given to both present the important social policy context for China's privatization experience and describe the Chinese characteristics in the higher education privatization process. More importantly, a micro-perspective is further provided in the form of an ethnographical case study to reveal the nature of independent colleges from an insiders' point of view. The ethnographical case study is based upon Schein's theoretical framework for studying organizational/institutional culture. Physical "artifacts", espoused official value and differentiated assumptions are investigated to provide a wholesome picture of the institution. Zhejiang University City College, the first independent college in Zhejiang, is selected as the site for this ethnographical case study. Through this micro and macro-perspective study, it is found that 1) founding public higher education institutions exert great influence over the operation of independent colleges. Their crucial role in the emergence and development of independent colleges is a pragmatic policy decision to quickly expand and diversify the higher education provision. Therefore, the influence of the public force shall not be overlooked in China's higher education privatization experience. 2) Students in independent colleges hold an ambiguous view on the nature of independent colleges. On the one hand, because of the participation of public higher education institutions they see independent colleges as more trust-worthy and quality-ensured. On the other hand, they are troubled by the marginalized/stigmatized status of independent colleges as minban (private or people run in literal meaning) higher education institutions in China's public dominant higher education system. 3) Faculty and staff in independent colleges are able to see both the advantages and disadvantages of this hybrid model of higher education. Academic resources and social recognition are important advantages. Lack of character and autonomy are mentioned as disadvantages. However, many argue independent colleges shall not go on a path with more independence. More support from the public higher education institution and the local government is essential to its future survival and success in China's public dominated higher educationsystem.

Download or read book China s Social Policy written by Kinglun Ngok and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically and comprehensively examines China’s welfare development amidst its rapid economic growth and increasing social tensions. It covers the main policy areas from China’s inception of the open door policy in 1978 to the new administration of Jinping Xi and Keqiang Li, including social security, health, education, housing, employment, rural areas, migrant workers, children and young people, disabled people, old age pensions and non-governmental organisations. In particular, it critically analyses the impact of policy changes on the well-being of Chinese people

Download or read book MARKETIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCAT written by 陳黎 and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Marketization of Higher Education in China: Implications for National Development" by 陳黎, Lai, Chan, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3196221 Subjects: Education, Higher - Economic aspects - China Education, Higher - China - Finance Privatization - China - Case studies

Download or read book Privatisation of Higher Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles; with reference to India.

Download or read book The History of Privately Controlled Higher Education in the Republic of China written by Anthony C. Li and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: