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Gang, Cheng; Keming, Wu – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
Among the studies of the internal efficiency in higher education, most have focused on the scale of university (the economies of scale), but little on internal operating efficiency in higher education, especially on the combined efficiency of outputs (the economies of scope). There are few theoretical discussions or experimental research on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Administration, Economics, Efficiency
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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
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Du, Yuhong; Hu, Yongmei – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
Since the 1980s, the increasing cost of education has been a global trend, and there is a growing demand for increasing efficiency in different countries. As a result, education economists began focusing on the issue of efficient allocation of educational resources and borrowed production function from economics to study educational production…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Academic Achievement, Multiple Regression Analysis, Rural Areas
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You, Yongheng – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
Since the 1980s, "key school system" (KSS) in basic education has contributed to teaching quality and the development of some schools. However, at the same time it brings about many serious problems such as failure to attain educational objective, being away from the goal of education equity, arising students' mental or emotional…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Educational Objectives, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Zhai, Bo – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
Educational balance refers to the ideal that educational organizations and people who receive education enjoy equal treatment in educational activities under the thought of fair education and principle of educational equity, and the educational policy as well as legal system that guarantee its actual operations. The essence of balanced education…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Equal Education, Supply and Demand, Foreign Countries
Du Vivier, Ed – Commonwealth of Learning, 2008
These self-instructional resources have their origins in a workshop on the Costs and Financing of Open & Distance Learning which took place from 6-10 August 2007 in Gabarone, Botswana. The workshop was sponsored by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) with the overall aim of building capacity to plan, negotiate and manage appropriate financial…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Workshops, Foreign Countries, Cost Effectiveness
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Temple, Paul – Higher Education Quarterly, 2006
In many countries today, public higher education operates within some form of market framework, typically a government-regulated quasi-market. However, having created a market environment, how should the government agencies involved act when they wish to use higher education to achieve a particular policy goal? This paper considers the impact on…
Descriptors: Intervention, Higher Education, Case Studies, Public Education
Zhu, Xudong; Han, Xue – International Education Journal, 2006
This article proposes a conceptual framework to examine the development of the teacher education system in contemporary China. Within the framework, three development periods, including the era of shifan, and the era of post-shifan, the era of professional teacher education, are investigated in terms of governance, institutional structures, and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Resource Allocation, Governance
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Ding, Weili; Lu, Ming – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
Lacking guidance of general equilibrium (GE) theories in public economics and the corresponding proper mechanisms, China has not surprisingly witnessed an inequality in educational expenditures across regions as well as insufficiency of funds for education in poor areas. It is wrongly thought that what happens is due to the decentralized financing…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
Searle, Barbara W.; And Others – 1988
The primary, secondary, and higher education textbooks used in China today date from the late 1970s which makes them inadequate for the current stress on science and technology in education. While 70 percent of the higher education textbooks are mimeographed, unedited manuscripts, the majority of published books are printed on newsprint quality…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Improvement Programs
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Wang, Chenzhi – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2000
Describes main trends in the administration and financing of higher education in China over two decades and analyzes the resource allocation under the reform policies of administrative decentralization and financing diversification. Points out the economic significance of overcoming diseconomies of scale and inefficiencies. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administration, Decentralization, Economic Factors, Educational Finance
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Baifu, Shen – Frontiers of Education in China, 2006
The essay deals with regional disparities in the average educational expenditure of every ordinary senior secondary student, including budget funds for education, the proportion appropriated to the ordinary senior high school by the government, tuition fee per student and the proportion of tuition fees of the total educational expenditure. By…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Tuition
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Yingxiu, Yang – Frontiers of Education in China, 2006
Using statistical data on the implementing conditions of China's educational expenditure published by the state, this paper studies the Gini coefficient of the budget educational public expenditure per student in order to examine the concentration degree of the educational expenditure for China's basic education and analyze its balanced…
Descriptors: Expenditure per Student, Compulsory Education, Educational Finance, Disadvantaged
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Tsang, Mun C. – Education Economics, 1994
Surveys costs of education in China, focusing on three areas: national expenditures on education; unit cost of education; and educational cost functions. Relates the analysis of education costs to four enduring policy issues: resource mobilization, inequality, inequity, and inefficiency. Compared with other Asian countries, China's public…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Policy
McAdam, Kevin C. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2005
More than one billion people do not have access to an adequate water supply. In Gambia and Haiti, people live on less than 4 liters of water per day. By contrast, most toilets in the West use several times that amount of water for a single flush. The global distribution of water is making it increasingly difficult for poor people to access it, and…
Descriptors: Water, Civil Rights, Natural Resources, Resource Allocation
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