World-class higher education and the emerging Chinese model of the university
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...The ‘massification initiative’ dramatically increased the provision of higher education in China from the 1990s onwards (Li 2012, 334) and currently there are plans to increase the proportion of an age group entering higher education from 25% to 40% (Douglass 2012, 645)....
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...The increase in numbers of students has taken place in conjunction with a series of strategic mergers, which had by 2000 brought the number of institutions down from 490 to 204 (Li 2012, 328)....
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...…on a centuries-long scholarly tradition in China, its universities have also been influenced by Western educational systems over the past century (Li 2012, 321) – systems whose focus on independent thought and critical analysis is not an easy fit with the Chinese ‘deference to hierarchy and…...
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...Debates have started over whether or not there might be an emerging Chinese model of the university (Zha, 2011; Li, 2012; Postilione, 2015)....
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...I use Weber’s (1948) concept of the ideal type to identify the core values of institutional self-mastery and intellectual freedom; they stand in contrast to the autonomy and academic freedom of the European university....
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