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World-class higher education and the emerging Chinese model of the university
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In this article, the authors investigated the emerging Chinese model of the university, considering its key features and contributions to global communities, and examined the institutional initiatives and government agendas involved in China's drive for global status.Abstract:
China’s recent quest to develop world-class universities is a significant phenomenon within the worldwide transformation of tertiary education. Taking a cultural approach and drawing on empirical findings, this article investigates the emerging Chinese model of the university, considering its key features and contributions to global communities. First, examining the rhetoric about world-class universities in varied societal contexts, it explores the institutional initiatives and government agendas involved in China’s drive for global status. Then, using case studies of three universities moving toward mass higher education and world-class status, it shows the role played by their individual institutional initiative. It next describes key features of the emerging Chinese model of the university, including the core values of self-mastery and intellectual freedom, to show how it differs from the dominant Anglo-Saxon and American models but shares some features with the continental European and Japanese models of the university. The final section considers policy implications of the emerging Chinese model, its potential lessons for reform and practice, and its role in fostering vibrant democracies and global dialogue among civilizations in the future.read more
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Challenges of Kwara State University Malete, Nigeria Towards the Attainment of a World-Class University Status
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Strategies for building world-class universities in Yemen with specific reference to the Malaysian experience
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The higher education system : academic organization in cross-national perspective
TL;DR: Clark identifies the basic elements common to all such systems, and proceeds to thematic comparisons among a number of countries as mentioned in this paper, and concludes that they can be classified into three broad categories.
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The uses of the university
TL;DR: The idea of a multiversity the realities of the federal grant university the future of the city of intellect reconsiderations after the revolts of the 1960s attempted reforms that failed commentaries on the golden age of the research university a new age? - from increasing federal riches to increasing state poverty hard choices.