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National Association of Scholars, 2021
The National Association of Scholars believes that higher education should gather scholars and students to cultivate excellence and pursue the truth, transmit the heritage of Western civilization to a new generation, prepare cultured and virtuous citizens, and train students for vocational success. American colleges and universities should embody…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Educational Finance
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Gao, Xingyuan; Xia, Jiangang; Shen, Jianping; Ma, Xin – Chinese Education & Society, 2018
Successful school leadership is highly contextually dependent. However, few studies focused on the comparisons of school leadership across different countries. Even among the existing studies, comparisons tend to be conducted with the assumption that the underlying factorial structure of the construct is the same. In this study, school principal's…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Principals, Decision Making
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Yong, Zhong; Jie, Xie – Chinese Education & Society, 2017
This paper presents a case study of the microeconomy of a typical underdeveloped village in southwest China and the role of elementary education in the village economy. The paper begins with a brief review of relevant theories on the economics of education and the current social conditions and state of education in the village under study, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Outcomes of Education, Private Financial Support
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Li, Yongzhan – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2014
In view of the benefit of improving employees' organization commitment, it is important to study the major influencing factors of organization commitment. According to previous literature, organizational justice and job burnout have been considered two major influencing variables of affective commitment; however, little empirical research can be…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, College Faculty, Organizational Development, Organizational Theories
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Etzkowitz, Henry; Etzkowitz, Alex – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
Although innovation policy usually follows the business cycle, it is both desirable and possible to reverse this trend. Perhaps the most telling commentary on contemporary Europe is the silence that met the presentation, at the recent European Parliament Innovation Conference, of the Chinese R&D spending curve passing the European Union curve…
Descriptors: Innovation, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Knowledge Economy
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Tobin, Mollie; Nugroho, Dita; Lietz, Petra – Research Papers in Education, 2016
This article synthesises findings from two systematic reviews that examined evidence of the link between large-scale assessments (LSAs) and education policy in economically developing countries and in countries of the Asia-Pacific. Analyses summarise evidence of assessment characteristics and policy goals of LSAs that influence education policy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Linhan, Chen – Higher Education Studies, 2012
This paper is intended for looking into the inevitability of the internationalization of higher education with the prime causes of it resting in the facts that given such large-size Chinese population, the resources allocated to higher education in China remain insufficient to meet the demand for higher education and that universities in the UK,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Commercialization, Resource Allocation
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Li, Jian – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This paper investigates the rural-urban inequalities in basic education of contemporary China. The China Education Panel Survey (2013-2014) (CEPS) was utilized to analyze the gaps between rural and urban inequality in junior high schools in terms of three domains, which include the equalities of access, inputs, and outcomes. From the sociocultural…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Access to Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Liu, Peng – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
This article reviews the literature on how Chinese turnaround schools are improved in practice. It starts by defining turnaround schools in the Chinese context, and then discusses the essential reasons why such schools exist. Approaches to improving turnaround schools, successful experiences of transforming turnaround schools, and the challenges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Turnaround, Educational Change, Literature Reviews
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Sun, Zuodong; Leung, Bo Wah – International Journal of Music Education, 2014
China has been instituting national basic education curriculum reforms since 2001. This study provides an updated understanding of present-day, rural primary school music education in Northeastern China's Tonghua region. A total of 126 rural primary music teachers and 674 students from 28 primary schools in the region were surveyed using a…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Elementary School Students, Music Education, Foreign Countries
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Yu, Haibo – Chinese Education and Society, 2014
This article analyzes the content and format of the Overseas University Leadership Program organized by the National Academy of Education Administration in Beijing, China. Universities provide the country with scientific and technological expertise, pave the path to individual advancement, and are major economic engines. China's new mission is to…
Descriptors: Universities, Program Content, Program Descriptions, Leadership Training
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Onsman, Andrys – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
As part of an ambitious 10-year programme to overhaul and improve its entire education structure, China is currently engaged in developing, reforming and opening up its higher education sector. The stated aims are to increase access, increase resourcing, improve outcomes and lessen direct official interference. Underpinning the programme are…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change
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Wei, Bao – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
This article attempts to analyze the changing circumstances of the regional disparities in the allocation of China's higher educational resources before and after the increase in college enrollments, as well as the mechanisms that have affected these circumstances. The conclusions are that regional disparities in the allocation of China's funding…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, Industrial Structure, Foreign Countries
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Li, Min – Higher Education Studies, 2012
With the establishment of the socialist market economic system in China, the issue of social fairness has been paid more and more attentions. The fairness issue of higher education, which is responsible for training high-quality talents for the national economy construction, has become the focus of attention. We discuss and research on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Social Justice, Equal Education
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Zhao, Dan; Parolin, Bruno – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
This study considers the experience of school mapping restructure (SMR) in areas of rural China. It aims to understand what happened after SMR implementation. Through a combination of instruments such as questionnaires, interviews and document analysis, the study finds that SMR has impacted positively on the development of education in terms of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Stakeholders, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
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