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Massification and Diversification of Higher Education in China: An Exploration of State, Market and Institutional Forces book cover

1st Edition

Massification and Diversification of Higher Education in China An Exploration of State, Market and Institutional Forces

By Qiang Zha Copyright 2019
280 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Qiang Zha is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, York University.

“In Massification and Diversification of Higher Education in China Qiang Zha captures the complexity of the modern system of higher education in China, including the dramatic changes the system has undergone over the past two decades or so. One of the most important and compelling books on the market in terms of understanding higher education reform in China!" -- Robert A. Rhoads, UCLA Professor of Higher Education and Organizational Change and Center for Chinese Studies

"The world is waiting for an authoritative text on higher education in China and it is not surprising that Zha Qiang has provided it. A brilliant overview of the architecture and content of the system with a challenging proposal for reform." -- Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia

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