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Li, He – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
Drawing on a qualitative case study and deploying Bourdieu's thinking tools, this article attempts to understand rural students' subjectivities and practices in a Chinese elite university, relating the types and volumes of capital they possessed to the process of position-takings. It contextualises their experiences against the backdrop of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
Li, Zhen – Journal of Education and Work, 2013
This paper presents a multiple ("n"?=?23), longitudinal case study of the construction of personal employability by Chinese students at a UK university. It draws on the work of Brown and Hesketh to frame notions of employability in order to understand how these students engage with the international and Chinese labour markets from their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, Graduate Students, Employment Potential
Chan, Wing Kit; Ngok, Kinglun – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2011
Since 1999, the expansion of higher education has been viewed as an important step in accumulating human capital for China that was to gradually open its domestic sectors to the global market at a turbulent time at the turn of the century. Recent studies suggest that the improvement of human capital has succeeded in preparing China with a solid…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Equal Education, Disadvantaged
Chan, Wing Kit – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
Since 2003, Chinese university students have faced a dangerous level of unemployment after graduation. Current trends indicate that the situation is likely to remain at this level for some time. This article argues that it is difficult to generalize that there has been a decline in the competitiveness of all university students in the job market…
Descriptors: Graduates, Social Class, Employment Patterns, Human Capital
Jia, Qiong – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Internationally, higher education has expanded greatly since the closing decades of the twentieth century. China was no exception. This study is intended to examine the status quo of issues relating to equity and access to higher education in the context of educational expansion and differentiation in China. Two research questions are addressed in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
Yang, Po – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
The Chinese financial aid system intends to increase the affordability of postsecondary education and provide access to college for disadvantaged students. However, the research base for access to aid in China is extremely thin. Using data from a large cross-sectional survey in Beijing, this study found that attending selective institutions with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Financial Aid, Student Characteristics, Socioeconomic Status
Dong, Zefang; Wang, Yanbin; Chen, Wenjiao – Frontiers of Education in China, 2009
There is a close interactive relationship between social mobility and educational selection. On one side, the character, direction, speed, level, methods and trends of social mobility affect the aims, goals, functions, scope, strategy, content and methods of choice in education. On the other side, the goals, basis and means of choosing education…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Foreign Countries, Social Mobility, Resource Allocation
Brown, Phillip; Lauder, Hugh – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2009
International education can be seen as a kind of litmus test in interrogating the place of education, power, and ideology in a globalized economy. In this paper, the authors detail the development of international education both with respect to character and credentials, and identify its putative links with elite higher education. How then might…
Descriptors: Credentials, Social Class, International Education, International Cooperation
Zhao, Luan – International Education Studies, 2010
In China, the access to education is determined by not only student's demand for schooling, but also the allocation of educational resources and the schools' selection of candidate students. Based on the data obtained from the rural life level and rural social assistance household surveys in four provinces in 2005, the demand-identified bivariate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Rural Education, Rural Areas
Elsner, Paul A., Ed.; Boggs, George R., Ed.; Irwin, Judith T., Ed. – Community College Press (NJ3), 2008
In a global society and economy, education and training is essential to a nation's competitiveness and to the standard of living of its people. The need to open the doors of higher or further education beyond the relatively limited enrollments in elite and selective universities has spawned a movement to develop or expand institutions that are…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Living Standards, Global Approach, Foreign Countries

Robinson, Nancy M. – Roeper Review, 1992
A U.S. educator of the gifted compares early college admission programs in the United States and China. Noted are the importance of examinations, an emphasis on athletics, science and technology, and the specific programs at the University of Science and Technology of China (Beijing) and Southeast University (Nanjing). (DB)
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), College Admission, Comparative Education, Gifted

Yewchuk, Carolyn R. – Roeper Review, 1992
A U.S. educator recounts a visit to an elementary school in China specializing in fine arts education and a secondary school specializing in foreign languages. Also discussed are the Chinese gifted education system including student selection, curriculum, teaching methods, and educational philosophy. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Eligibility, Fine Arts, Foreign Countries

Ren-Mei, Tan; And Others – Journal of Teacher Education, 1985
Before 1949, education was largely ignored in China, but recently it has been given a priority almost equal to modern industrialization. Teacher education reforms have been extensive and varied. These reforms are described, and further challenges are outlined. (MT)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Graduation Requirements

Manos, Harry – Physics Teacher, 1992
Discusses (1) Japan's use of a combination of the National Uniform Test and locally administered exams as the sole criteria for university admission and (2) China's use of a National Entrance Examination, experimental examinations administered in Shanghai and Guangzhou, and a Qualifying Test for students over age 25 as university admissions…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, College Entrance Examinations, Competitive Selection
Williams, Margaret D. – 1988
An overview of postsecondary education in the People's Republic of China is presented, based on the experiences of 38 visiting U.S. community college faculty members and administrators who met with Chinese educators at several college campuses in July 1987. First, the paper explains the differences in curricula and admissions for the following…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Higher Education