This study explores how China’s education responses to COVID-19 from a perspective of policy analysis. Specifically, it involves building an educational policy system for COVID-19 to examine educat...

How China’s education responses to COVID-19: A perspective of policy analysis

This study aims to explore the new directions towards internationalization of higher education in China during post-COVID 19. The systematic literature review is applied as an evidence-based policy...

New directions towards internationalization of higher education in China during post-COVID 19: A systematic literature review

Cooperation Agency (Sida) has provided financial assistance for the publication of this bookle The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has provided financial assistance for the publication of this booklet.i The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has provided financial assistance for the publication of this booklet.. The booklets in this series are written primarily for two types of clientele: those engaged in educational planning and administration, in developing as well as developed countries; and others, less specialized, such as senior government officials and policy-makers who seek a more general understanding of educational planning and of how it is related to overall national development. They are intended to be of use either for private study or in formal training programmes. Since this series was launched in 1967 practices and concepts of educational planning have undergone substantial change. Many of the assumptions which underlay earlier attempts to rationalize the process of educational development have been criticized or abandoned. Even if rigid mandatory centralized planning has now clearly proven to be inappropriate, this does not mean that all forms of planning have been dispensed with. On the contrary, the need for collecting data, evaluating the efficiency of existing programmes, undertaking a wide range of studies, exploring the future and fostering broad debate on these bases to guide educational policy and decision-making has become even more acute than before. One cannot make sensible policy choices without assessing the present situation, specifying the goals to be reached, marshalling the means to attain them and monitoring what has been accomplished. Hence planning is also a way to organize learning: by mapping, targeting, acting and correcting. The scope of educational planning has been broadened. In addition to the formal system of education, it is now applied to all other important educational efforts in non-formal settings. Attention to the growth and expansion of education systems is being complemented and sometimes even replaced by a growing concern for the quality of the entire educational process and for the control of its results. Finally, planners and administrators have become more and more aware of the importance of implementation strategies and of the role of different regulatory mechanisms in this respect: the choice of International Institute for Educational Planning www.unesco.org/iiep 6 Fundamentals of educational planning financing methods, the examination and certification procedures or various other regulation and incentive structures. The concern of planners is twofold: to reach a better understanding …

การแปรรูปการศึกษา : สาเหตุ ผลสืบเนื่องและนัยด้านการวางแผน = Education privatization : causes, consequences and planning implications

This study investigates how to create world-class universities in China from a policy mapping perspective. Specifically, policy connotations of creating world-class universities in China have been ...

Rethinking how to create world-class universities in China: A policy mapping perspective

Higher education modernization is a core driver in developing a nation’s education. Creating world-class universities is one pathway toward educational modernization in the world’s major developed countries and can help meet the challenge of education internationalization and globalization. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate world-class universities for higher education sustainability in China through a social networking approach. We aimed to explore the communication path and spatial distribution of social network information about education policies for creation of world-class universities. The core topics discussed by the public were enrollment and employment, followed by the level of institutions and their development. The public in East China discussed the most content, followed by people in North and Southwest China. Positive emotions were mainly found in East, Southwest and North China, while sensitive emotions primarily occurred in East and North China. In addition, the conclusion and implication are offered at the end.

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A Social Networking Analysis of Education Policies of Creating World-Class Universities for Higher Education Sustainability in China

Recently China has miraculously transformed itself from a learner in the 20th century to a re-rising leader of educational excellence. The enduring policy endeavors over the past few decades have largely enabled China as the largest educational system in the world move to a recently emerging status as a global leader of educational improvement, recognized and appreciated with admiration by many traditionally advanced countries. The two authors intend to offer a snapshot of the China miracle of educational development in terms of public policies since the turn of the 21st century. With a Multi-Flows Approach constructed from Csikszentmihalyi’s idea of “flow”, this paper investigates the complexity and dynamism of three policy streams, i.e., basic education, teacher education and higher education. It is concluded from the literature review that central to China’s key policy actions in recent decades are four core themes, i.e., equality in terms of a democratic mission of education for every citizen, quality in terms of individual and social productivity, efficiency as a national priority based on practicality, and rejuvenation of the state for nation-building and global status. Educational policy development in China since the new century is thus examined with economic, political, cultural and international flows, each presenting a colorful jigsaw puzzle that is not easily tessellated by other flows. The authors argue that the different focus of flows and beyond can benefit policy communities in the world with varied directions for educational change resulting in significant improvement while none of them should be seen as a single force in solely shaping educational policy development without the convergence of other forces. This implies that for any public policy in education policymakers, implementers and other stakeholders must ensure a comprehensive consideration of the interdependent, converging effects of these forces to prioritize and maximize their outcomes, which may be easily missed by any single force of them. The implications from this paper sheds new light on policy studies in education in China and globally, and the learner-provider dynamism of educational development in a post-colonial context.

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Jian Li

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Educational Policy Development in China in the 21st Century: A Multi-Flows Approach