This article explores the way in which the World Bank has worked effectively with China in higher education.It investigates whether or not the cooperation between the two has changed in line with their changing relati...This article explores the way in which the World Bank has worked effectively with China in higher education.It investigates whether or not the cooperation between the two has changed in line with their changing relationship.More specifically,it discusses whether the World Bank’s China agenda reflects the reform package of socio-institutional neoliberalism which the World Bank has tended to promote worldwide in the era of the Post-Washington Consensus,and how China’s higher education reform has been influenced by the agenda.The article argues that as China is transferring its role from that of a recipient country to that of a donor country,it is increasingly important to position itself as a global player.Other than mastering the game rules of the international community,China should also expand its influence within and through these major international organizations.展开更多
This article expounds that China’s higher engineering education is facing both challenges and opportunities. Some special difficulties and problems rise in the course of economic transition, and exhort us that it has...This article expounds that China’s higher engineering education is facing both challenges and opportunities. Some special difficulties and problems rise in the course of economic transition, and exhort us that it has been of great urgency to carry out a reform of higher engineering education. Here are put forward six measures: to explore training patterns of such an education suited to China’s national conditions; to improve university system: to transform educational ideology, and reform educational contents and methods; to establish a system of cooperation of engineering universities and colleges with industries; to strengthen construction of teacher contingent in engineering universities and colleges; and to carry out testing work of continuing engineering education and training education.展开更多
The“Internet Plus”business model calls for the optimization of business education in higher education institutes.The fast pace of“Internet Plus”requires business students to have abundant interdisciplinary knowled...The“Internet Plus”business model calls for the optimization of business education in higher education institutes.The fast pace of“Internet Plus”requires business students to have abundant interdisciplinary knowledge,comprehensive modern business skills,habits of lifelong self-learning,and the courage to innovate.This paper proposes that higher education institutes should improve their business education programs in the following ways:firstly,form teaching alliances to provide interdisciplinary learning opportunities for business students;secondly,establish a social practice tutor team from excellent alumni;thirdly,build an online education platform for alumni to develop lifelong autonomous learning habits;finally,explore the three-tutor training model for business students.展开更多
The foundation of Shanxi University is a prime example of the collaborative efforts in higher education between the Chinese and British in late Qing China(1842-1912).Both sides made compromises,with the Chinese adapti...The foundation of Shanxi University is a prime example of the collaborative efforts in higher education between the Chinese and British in late Qing China(1842-1912).Both sides made compromises,with the Chinese adapting their ideas of educational sovereignty,and the British agreeing to work under the supervision of the local government.Such a collaboration was made possible by the individual personalities of the two founders and their visions for China’s higher education.The dual structure of the university,with one department to teach Chinese learning and the other to teach Western learning,showed that,at a local and personal level,these officials and missionaries opted for direct cooperation,despite the myriad changes and upheavals following the Boxer Movement.In addition,by allowing foreign missionaries into critical roles in a government university,the principle of ti-yong dualism was gradually being adapted.The formation of Shanxi University not only demonstrates the dynamics of the Sino-Western educational relationship and the roles individuals played in it,but also stimulates reflection on China’s contemporary cross-border partnerships in higher education.展开更多
This paper addresses the issue of students’employment expectations,considered a key factor in alleviating graduate unemployment in China.This empirical investigation surveyed students at two higher education institut...This paper addresses the issue of students’employment expectations,considered a key factor in alleviating graduate unemployment in China.This empirical investigation surveyed students at two higher education institutions in Xi’an,Shaanxi Province,to analyze how expectations were changing.The results contrasted with earlier studies that reported unrealistically high expectations,discovering instead that most respondents were aware of the difficulties of finding work and were revising their expectations accordingly.The results also revealed important variations in attitude between higher vocational students and university undergraduates,and between urban and rural students.Overall,the paper contends that although students are becoming more realistic,the complexity of graduate unemployment will prevent this change in attitude from making a major improvement to the overall situation.展开更多
Over the past decade higher education reforms in most European countries have been oriented towards creating a European Higher Education Area which is envisaged in the Bologna Declaration.Based on an illustration of a...Over the past decade higher education reforms in most European countries have been oriented towards creating a European Higher Education Area which is envisaged in the Bologna Declaration.Based on an illustration of a variety of difficulties encountered higher education institutions in a wide range of participating countries,this article indicates a less optimistic view on the achievements to date in the Bologna Process.It argues that the tension of interests between the designers of the Process and its national and institutional practitioners undermines the actual progress towards the supranational objectives.It is suggested that most difficulties in relation to harmonizing national structures of higher education lie in the varying degrees of cultural dependency on traditions and academic autonomy across the engaged European countries.展开更多
基金The author is grateful to Professor Ruth Hayhoe,Professor Mark Bray,and Professor Stephen Heyneman for their insightful viewpoints.
文摘This article explores the way in which the World Bank has worked effectively with China in higher education.It investigates whether or not the cooperation between the two has changed in line with their changing relationship.More specifically,it discusses whether the World Bank’s China agenda reflects the reform package of socio-institutional neoliberalism which the World Bank has tended to promote worldwide in the era of the Post-Washington Consensus,and how China’s higher education reform has been influenced by the agenda.The article argues that as China is transferring its role from that of a recipient country to that of a donor country,it is increasingly important to position itself as a global player.Other than mastering the game rules of the international community,China should also expand its influence within and through these major international organizations.
文摘This article expounds that China’s higher engineering education is facing both challenges and opportunities. Some special difficulties and problems rise in the course of economic transition, and exhort us that it has been of great urgency to carry out a reform of higher engineering education. Here are put forward six measures: to explore training patterns of such an education suited to China’s national conditions; to improve university system: to transform educational ideology, and reform educational contents and methods; to establish a system of cooperation of engineering universities and colleges with industries; to strengthen construction of teacher contingent in engineering universities and colleges; and to carry out testing work of continuing engineering education and training education.
基金the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics 2020 Ideological and Political Demonstration Class Project“Industrial Economics”(Project Number:CQF2020001).
文摘The“Internet Plus”business model calls for the optimization of business education in higher education institutes.The fast pace of“Internet Plus”requires business students to have abundant interdisciplinary knowledge,comprehensive modern business skills,habits of lifelong self-learning,and the courage to innovate.This paper proposes that higher education institutes should improve their business education programs in the following ways:firstly,form teaching alliances to provide interdisciplinary learning opportunities for business students;secondly,establish a social practice tutor team from excellent alumni;thirdly,build an online education platform for alumni to develop lifelong autonomous learning habits;finally,explore the three-tutor training model for business students.
文摘The foundation of Shanxi University is a prime example of the collaborative efforts in higher education between the Chinese and British in late Qing China(1842-1912).Both sides made compromises,with the Chinese adapting their ideas of educational sovereignty,and the British agreeing to work under the supervision of the local government.Such a collaboration was made possible by the individual personalities of the two founders and their visions for China’s higher education.The dual structure of the university,with one department to teach Chinese learning and the other to teach Western learning,showed that,at a local and personal level,these officials and missionaries opted for direct cooperation,despite the myriad changes and upheavals following the Boxer Movement.In addition,by allowing foreign missionaries into critical roles in a government university,the principle of ti-yong dualism was gradually being adapted.The formation of Shanxi University not only demonstrates the dynamics of the Sino-Western educational relationship and the roles individuals played in it,but also stimulates reflection on China’s contemporary cross-border partnerships in higher education.
文摘This paper addresses the issue of students’employment expectations,considered a key factor in alleviating graduate unemployment in China.This empirical investigation surveyed students at two higher education institutions in Xi’an,Shaanxi Province,to analyze how expectations were changing.The results contrasted with earlier studies that reported unrealistically high expectations,discovering instead that most respondents were aware of the difficulties of finding work and were revising their expectations accordingly.The results also revealed important variations in attitude between higher vocational students and university undergraduates,and between urban and rural students.Overall,the paper contends that although students are becoming more realistic,the complexity of graduate unemployment will prevent this change in attitude from making a major improvement to the overall situation.
文摘Over the past decade higher education reforms in most European countries have been oriented towards creating a European Higher Education Area which is envisaged in the Bologna Declaration.Based on an illustration of a variety of difficulties encountered higher education institutions in a wide range of participating countries,this article indicates a less optimistic view on the achievements to date in the Bologna Process.It argues that the tension of interests between the designers of the Process and its national and institutional practitioners undermines the actual progress towards the supranational objectives.It is suggested that most difficulties in relation to harmonizing national structures of higher education lie in the varying degrees of cultural dependency on traditions and academic autonomy across the engaged European countries.
