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The Role of Private Higher Education in the Chinese Higher Education System

You Guo Jiang

The Impact and Transformation of Education Policy in China

ISBN: 978-1-78052-186-2, eISBN: 978-1-78052-187-9

ISSN: 1479-3679

Publication date: 30 December 2011

Abstract

This chapter focuses on several aspects of this development: the growth of private higher education in China, issues of finance and access, its relationship to the national system and to government policy, issues of ownership and the autonomy of private higher education, as well as the advantages and challenges of Chinese private higher education and the larger significance of its emergence in China. This study concludes that with proper management private colleges and universities will benefit from and contribute to Chinese society through multiple roles and responsibilities at their mature stage.

Keywords

  • Private higher education
  • Access
  • Policy
  • Ownership
  • Autonomy

Citation

Guo Jiang, Y. (2011), "The Role of Private Higher Education in the Chinese Higher Education System", Huang, T. and Wiseman, A.W. (Ed.) The Impact and Transformation of Education Policy in China (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 377-400. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3679(2011)0000015017

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