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Xu, Yan; Dong, Zhe; Miao, Le; Ke, Yang – Chinese Education and Society, 2014
The five-year program is the main path for undergraduate medical training in China. Studies have shown that during the past eleven years, the scale of medical student enrollment increased annually with a relatively simple entrance exam. The ideas, teaching contents and methods, assessment and evaluation should be updated and improved. In general,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, Undergraduate Study, Enrollment
Choy, Eddy Chong Siong, Ed.; Yick, Lilian Kek Siew, Ed.; Kooi, Andy Liew Teik, Ed.; Wang, Libing, Ed.; Teter, Wesley, Ed. – UNESCO Bangkok, 2020
Building on four years of stocktaking and the 2018 Guidelines on Developing Qualifications Frameworks these Guidelines capture an important way forward to accelerate implementation of qualifications frameworks and quality assurance at subject level. The new Guidelines aim to provide a reference document for Member States to operationalize their…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Cultural Background
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Lin, Jinhui – Chinese Education & Society, 2016
The basic relationships among scale, quality, and benefits in Sino-foreign cooperative education are key to the development of cooperative education. It is necessary to construct a theoretical framework for the basic relationships among scale, quality, and benefits in Sino-foreign cooperative education and analyze the questions faced in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, International Educational Exchange, Educational Cooperation, Correlation
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Loyalka, Prashant; Carnoy, Martin; Froumin, Isak; Dossani, Raffiq; Tilak, J. B.; Yang, Po – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
A huge increase in engineering graduates from the BRIC countries in recent decades potentially threatens the competitiveness of developed countries in producing high value-added products and services, while also holding great promise for substantially increasing the level of global basic and applied innovation. The key question is whether the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Engineering Education, Technical Occupations
Terauchi, Hajime, Ed.; Noguchi, Judy, Ed.; Tajino, Akira, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
This book proposes a new paradigm for English language teaching based on concepts from English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and applications as well as from growing evidence relating pattern recognition to language learning ability. The contributors to the volume argue that learners should not try to become proficient all-around users of…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
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Wang, Yue; Xu, Xinhua; Wu, Meifen; Hu, Huikang; Wang, Xiaogang – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was introduced into undergraduate physical chemistry laboratory curriculum to help students observe the phase composition and morphology characteristics of tin-lead alloys and thus further their understanding of binary alloy phase diagrams. The students were captivated by this visual analysis method, which…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Science Laboratories
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Wu, Mei; Li, Shengbing – Higher Education Forum, 2015
Cross-border higher education institutions are considered a main way to fulfill the educational internalization in Mainland China; to some extent they represent the attitude of entering the international market. In this paper, the history, status quo, and future of Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools are analyzed and discussed. Cross-border…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Cooperation, International Cooperation, School Administration
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Ding, Lin; Zhang, Ping – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
Previous literature on learners' epistemological beliefs about physics has almost exclusively focused on analysis of university classroom instruction and its effects on students' views. However, little is known about other populations or factors other than classroom instruction on learners' epistemologies. In this study, we used a cross-sequential…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Physics, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
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Zhu, Wenzhong; Liu, Xuyang – English Language Teaching, 2014
Business English in China has evolved into a degree programme from an ESP teaching programme in the past decades. The degree programme of Business English major intends to cultivate multi-skilled talents of foreign language to better satisfy the real needs of society and economy through curriculum design and teaching method innovation activities.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Wu, Yazhou; Zhang, Ling; Liu, Ling; Zhang, Yanqi; Liu, Xiaoyu; Yi, Dong – Journal of Biological Education, 2015
It is clear that the teaching of medical statistics needs to be improved, yet areas for priority are unclear as medical students' learning and application of statistics at different levels is not well known. Our goal is to assess the attitudes of medical students toward the learning and application of medical statistics, and discover their…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Graduate Study, Undergraduate Study, Statistics
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Hu, Guangwei; Li, Linna; Lei, Jun – Language Policy, 2014
This article reports a case study of an undergraduate English-medium program at a major university in mainland China. The study critically examines the language ideology, language management, and language practices revolving around the focal program. The data sources included national and institutional policy documents related to English-medium…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Study, Universities
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Che, Xiang-Xin; Niu, Li; Xia, Xiu-Long; Wang, Xin – Chinese Education and Society, 2014
To alleviate the shortage of competent undergraduate-level medical professionals in the central and western rural regions of China, from 2010 to 2012, the Chinese government mandated 100 medical colleges to recruit 30,000 rural-oriented, tuition-waived medical students (RTMS) for the township and village hospitals. But no educational curriculum is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Medical Students, Undergraduate Study
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Qi, Dianwei; Yu, Shili – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
With China's economic development and international competition intensifications, the society requires for talents from number requirements into the quality requirements, especially. Complex and high-class trend of modern industrial development demands compound talents. There are eight majors in college of the economics and management in Changchun…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education
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Lai, Manhong – Australian Educational Researcher, 2013
Expansion of higher education has been perceived as the major tool through which China can raise its international competitiveness. To raise educational quality, the Ministry of Education initiated a new employment reform and a Teaching Quality Assessment for Undergraduate Programs. In this research, we employed a qualitative method to investigate…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Lee, John Chi-Kin; Huang, Yvonne Xianhan; Zhong, Binglin – Higher Education Review, 2012
Quality assurance in higher education has been an important issue not only in western countries but also in China. This study, based on Harman's framework, analyses the features and implementation of undergraduate teaching evaluation (UTE) through case studies of four different universities in Guangdong province, southern China. The findings…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
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