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Yu, Li – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2017
The unemployment problem of college students in China has drawn much attention from academics and society. Using the 2011 College Student Labor Market (CSLM) survey data from Tsinghua University, this paper estimated the effects of college quality on initial employment, including employment status and employment unit ownership for fresh college…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Unemployment, Labor Market
Jiang, Yuan – ProQuest LLC, 2019
As we work and study in our increasingly globalized society, there is a growing trend of Chinese piano students choosing to pursue their higher education in the United States. Elite music institutions in America are also seeking and recruiting a large number of Chinese pianists. This trend raises questions regarding the similarities and…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Instruments, Higher Education, Reputation
Ma, Yingyi; Wang, Lifang – Frontiers of Education in China, 2016
As the Chinese mainland has transitioned from elite to mass higher education, the race to attend university has escalated to become a race to attend selective universities. This study focuses on rural female university students and explores how they make sense of their higher education admission experiences. We rationalize that the inquiry into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Rural Areas, Females
Liu, Shuning – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
Since 2010, the number of urban Chinese high-school students applying to US universities has rapidly grown. Many of these students have chosen emerging international curriculum programs established by elite public high schools in China. These programs prepare wealthy Chinese students for the US college application process by exposing them to an…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, High School Students, Marketing, Access to Education
Tao, Li – Higher Education Studies, 2014
The stories of many universities' exceptive admission during the republic period of China were widely circulated. The typical example of these universities' exceptional admission was the very product of special historical condition, which had its own characteristics, but also conforms to the general rule, so it can be cited. To select special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian History, Educational History, College Admission
Sun, James Jian-Min; Hu, Ping; Ng, Sik Hung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
When China liberalised its economy and opened up to the (Western) world, it actively promoted the English language at schools and universities on a massive scale. This learn-English movement, riding on the back of English as the dominant international language, has powered English into China's education reforms. We outline the movement and discuss…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Haimei, Sui; Yingquan, Song – Chinese Education & Society, 2017
This article is based on tracking data of 7,411 first-year high school students from 106 secondary vocational schools in Zhejiang and Shaanxi Provinces from 2011 and 2012 and analyzes the impact of the experience of being left-behind on the exam behavior, dropout behavior, and willingness for promotion of secondary vocational school students. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Vocational Schools, Dropouts
Sheng, Xiaoming – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article employs Bourdieu's conceptual tools to unpack family influences on students' subject and university choices in China. This empirical study employed mixed research approaches, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, to examine students' choices of subjects and universities in a sample of secondary school students from the age…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Family Influence, Majors (Students), Foreign Countries
Wright, Ewan; Lee, Moosung – International Review of Education, 2014
There is a growing body of research suggesting that schools need to respond to changing social and economic dynamics by prioritising "21st-century skills". Proponents of this view, who have been termed "the 21st century skills movement", have called for greater emphasis on cognitive and non-cognitive skills development,…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, Selective Admission
Carnoy, Martin; Froumin, Isak; Loyalka, Prashant K.; Tilak, Jandhyala B. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
Because higher education serves both public and private interests, the way it is conceived and financed is contested politically, appearing in different forms in different societies. What is public and private in education is a political--social construct, subject to various political forces, primarily interpreted through the prism of the state.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Educational Change, Higher Education
Wu, Ching-Ling; Bao, Wei – International Journal of Educational Development, 2013
This study analyzes the effects of individual characteristics, socioeconomic status, and political engagement among Chinese university students with respect to their attainment of student leadership roles. The study investigated 10,930 students from elite Chinese universities. The results showed that female and only-child students were more likely…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Siblings, Socioeconomic Status
Zhao, Wanxia – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In the process of China's transformation from a socialist to a post-socialist society, China's entire system of education has experienced breathtaking expansion and reform. In this context, first-tier universities increasingly accept students from more financially well off backgrounds. While second-tier universities are inclined to accept more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Educational Change, Higher Education
Palfreyman, David – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2013
Education is often seen as a contrast (or even contest) between being a process of liberal education (with the aim of fostering life-long independent, innovative and creative thinking useful throughout life) and delivering vocational education (immediately applicable skills and competencies, ready for the world of work--"employability").…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Higher Education, Selective Admission, Comparative Education
Cheung, Alan Chi Keung; Xu, Li – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to examine the return intention of mainland Chinese students studying at prestigious universities in the Unites States. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. Participants were 90 students from three top-tiered universities on the East Coast of the United States. The results of this study…
Descriptors: Asians, Selective Admission, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
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