Higher Education Expansion in China and the "Ant Tribe" Problem

Autor/inn/en	He, Yu; Mai, Yinhua
Titel	Higher Education Expansion in China and the "Ant Tribe" Problem
Quelle	In: Higher Education Policy, 28 (2015) 3, S.333-352 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-8733
DOI	10.1057/hep.2014.14
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Enrollment; College Attendance; Educational Policy; Foreign Countries; Teacher Qualifications; Educational Finance; Education Work Relationship; Employment Qualifications; Salaries; Educational Quality; College Graduates; Educational Improvement; Educational Trends; Trend Analysis; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Einschulung; College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ausland; Lehrqualifikation; Bildungsfonds; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Entlohnung; Gehalt; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Bildungsentwicklung; Trendanalyse
Abstract	College Enrolment Expansion policies have been implemented in China since 1999. Unfortunately, numbers of qualified teachers and the amount of educational funds input have not caught up with the pace of student intake. Even the curricula taught in colleges are outdated and work practice programmes are inefficient. As a result, new college graduates cannot meet the requirements of firms they wish to work for. Many graduates work in unskilled job positions with low pay. They are called the "Ant tribe." We estimate that the accumulative number of persons in "Ant tribes" had exceeded 3 million by 2010, and the corresponding cost to China's annual GDP was over 0.22% in respect of effective labour input. Improvement in quality should take priority during the expansion of higher education. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01