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China's higher education (HE) has undergone a major transformation over the past decade, with the number of graduates from China's higher education institutions having quadrupled over the last six years. It offers a broad view on the unique experience of the reform and expansion of China's higher education, and evaluates the prospects for Chinese and foreign HE providers, regulators and other stakeholders.
List of contents
Part 1: Widening the Provision of Higher Education 1. The Regional Division of the Higher Education Sector in China: A Spatial Analysis 2. Adult Higher Education in China: Problems and Potential 3. The Role of Distance Education in Higher Education in Contemporary China 4. Private Higher Education in China: Problems and Possibilities Part 2: Expansion and its Consequences 5. Thirty Years of Reform of China’s Higher Education Funding Mechanism 6. The Labour Market for Graduates in China 7. The Occupational Orientation of Doctoral Graduates in China Part 3: A Growing Global Perspective 8. Higher Education and Chinese Teachers: Professional Education in the Context of China’s Curriculum Reform 9. Education Reform in Hong Kong: Implications for Higher Education and for Lifelong Learning 10. Brain Power Stored Overseas? An Australian Case Study of the Chinese Knowledge Diaspora
About the author
W. John Morgan is UNESCO Chair of the Political Economy of Education, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK, and Chairman of the UK National Commission for UNESCO. He was recently guest co-editor of a Special Issue of the
European Journal of Education on 'Chinese-European Co-operation in Education'.
Bin Wu is Senior Research Fellow at the China Policy Institute in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. His recent publications include, as co-editor,
Sustainable Reform and Development in Post-Olympic China (also published by Routledge) and guest co-editor of a Special Issue of the
Journal of Contemporary China on 'Openness of Chinese Society: progresses and challenges'.
