China's Move to Mass Higher Education since 1998: Analysis of Higher Education Expansion Policies

Autor/inn/en	Jiang, Jin; Ke, Guoguo
Titel	China's Move to Mass Higher Education since 1998: Analysis of Higher Education Expansion Policies
Quelle	In: Higher Education Quarterly, 75 (2021) 3, S.418-437 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Jiang, Jin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-5224
DOI	10.1111/hequ.12313
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Higher Education; Access to Education; Educational Policy; Commercialization; Administrative Organization; Policy Analysis; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsreform; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse
Abstract	Under the knowledge-based economy, higher education plays an important role in cultivating talents and enhancing national competitiveness. Compared with other countries, China is a latecomer in the expansion of higher education but has undergone considerable transformation from elite to massification in a short time since 1998. Most important, China's higher education expansion is not limited to the undergraduate level but includes junior college and postgraduate education. This dramatic development in higher education is also simultaneously affected by marketisation and decentralisation. Moreover, the unprecedented growth and achievements of the reform drew scholars' attention to this inspired case of the consequences of educational expansion. However, few studies analyse higher education expansion policies. This study analyses educational policies since 1998 to understand how the move to mass higher education was achieved through marketisation and decentralisation with the strong control of the central government. Drawing on policy analyses, this study suggests that the higher education expansion in China exhibits the characteristics of the East Asian model, which is shaped by the strong nation-state structure with instrumentalism. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01