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Shen, Wenqin; Zha, Qiang; Liu, Chao – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2023
China is an important player in global university ranking exercise. Nevertheless, existing studies have not adequately explored how the legitimacy of adopting university ranking outcomes has been chronologically established on Chinese soil. This paper attempts to fill this knowledge gap drawing on interviews with 37 stakeholders between 2003-2021…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Adoption (Ideas), Universities
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Zha, Qiang – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
This paper analyzes how China has managed to embrace mass higher education in a short timeline, and examines how far this move has followed the existing or established patterns elsewhere through comparing its core aspects with those of four identifiable models of mass higher education: the American model, the Western European model, the Latin…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Higher Education, Ideology, Foreign Countries
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Zha, Qiang – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
The expansion and diversification of higher education are twin phenomena that have been associated with the development of higher education in many countries around the world. This study attempts to use enrolment expansion as a lens to examine the effects of governmental intervention and market forces on diversification of the Chinese system,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Development, Universities, Organizational Change