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Shuoyang Meng; Wenqin Shen – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
The Chinese government has been actively recruiting foreign-trained Chinese scholars to return to China since the Chinese brain drain began. Japan is among the most popular destinations for Chinese scholars seeking to receive doctoral training. This study explores the factors contributing to the stratification of Japanese-trained Chinese PhDs'…
Descriptors: Asians, Foreign Students, Doctoral Programs, Study Abroad
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Wang, Lihua – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Faculty recruitment has become a new challenge for public higher education institutions (HEIs) in China since the 1990s. Based on the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) Framework, this study analyzed the faculty recruitment preferences and the effects of selected organizational factors on these preferences at top national HEIs from 2002…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Recruitment, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics
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Wang, Siyi; Jones, Glen A. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2021
This study utilises an institutional logic perspective to explore the dynamics and complexity of academic personnel system reforms at leading Chinese universities. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 participants from 10 highly ranked universities; these interviews obtained the views of key observers on four main reform initiatives:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Competition, Global Approach
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Song, Jia; Chu, Zhaofeng; Xu, Yuwei – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
Creating world-class universities (WCUs) has recently become a significant policy and practice in higher education in China under the Double World-Class Project. However, some negative effects have encouraged decoupling from the policy goals. To identify the reasons, we conducted policy document analysis and purposive interviews at three elite…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Reputation, Educational Quality, Institutional Characteristics
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Mai, Anh Ngoc – Higher Education for the Future, 2022
As previous research has not addressed the relationship between university autonomy and university rankings within countries where the state control model is used, this study explores universities' strategies to achieve top university rankings in accordance with their autonomous rights and financial as well as political support. Specifically, this…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Institutional Characteristics, Cross Cultural Studies
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Song, Jia – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
In recent years, "creating world-class universities" has been an important project on the Chinese mainland. With the all-encompassing internationalization of higher education in the global market, it is of the utmost importance that the quality of universities be improved and that some of the top universities are pushed to become…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Interviews, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries