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Ma, Jin-Chuan – College & Research Libraries, 1999
Allocating adequate materials funds from the university operation budget is essential if libraries in China's key universities are to successfully support their learning and research communities. This article examines funding problems, and suggests proposals for change: establish a deducting-percentage system; enhance integrated resources…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Tsang, Mun C. – Economics of Education Review, 1996
Assesses effects of the financial reform of China's basic education system, focusing on issues of structure, resource mobilization, equality, and efficiency. While decentralized funding reforms have succeeded in achieving structural change and resource mobilization, the current system is marked by glaring inequalities and significant…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Developing Nations, Educational Economics, Educational Equity (Finance)
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Weifang, Min – Higher Education, 1991
It is argued that the problems facing Chinese higher education are caused by underfunding, high inflation, and low internal efficiency. Possible strategies for addressing the problems are discussed, including improving internal efficiency, developing systems of cost sharing and cost recovery, income generation by individual universities, and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Economic Change, Educational Finance, Efficiency
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Chuanyou, Bao – Frontiers of Education in China, 2006
An important function of public policies is to distribute public resources rationally. But for a long time, our public policies have been so "city-oriented" that public resources are allocated unfairly and majority of high-quality education resources are concentrated in cities. This has already led to a serious unbalanced development in…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Compulsory Education, Educational Quality, Urban Areas
Ingersoll, Richard M., Ed. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2007
Across the educational systems of the world, few issues have received more attention in recent years than the problem of ensuring that elementary and secondary-school classrooms are all staffed with adequately qualified teachers. The objective of this report is to present the results from a collaborative, comparative study, that examined the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Effectiveness
Ingersoll, Richard M. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2007
Across the educational systems of the world, few issues receive more attention than the problem of ensuring that elementary- and secondary-school classrooms are staffed with adequately qualified teachers. Even in nations where students routinely score high on international exams, the issue of teacher quality is the subject of concern. It is widely…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Effectiveness
Ingersoll, Richard M., Ed. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2007
Across the educational systems of the world, few issues receive more attention than the problem of ensuring that elementary- and secondary-school classrooms are staffed with adequately qualified teachers. Even in nations where students routinely score high on international exams, the issue of teacher quality is the subject of concern. It is widely…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Effectiveness
Yang, Dongping – Chinese Education: A Journal of Translations, 1990
Advocates Chinese educational reform that returns the focus to elementary and secondary schools, away from higher education, competition, and promotion-oriented programs. Argues funds, admittedly limited, will be best spent on universal education that utilizes talent, improves the quality of national culture, and develops student creativity.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Policy, Fiscal Capacity
Zeng, Qiang; And Others – Chinese Education: A Journal of Translations, 1990
Compares numbers of college graduates and illiterates in China to those in developed and newly emerging industrialized nations. Criticizes the quality of Chinese education, arguing education must receive greater priority and more funding if China is to survive and flourish. (CH)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Qin, Jian – Chinese Education: A Journal of Translations, 1990
Discusses limitations in China's regulations and restrictions concerning students studying abroad. Encourages openness, more funding, allowing for postdoctoral research, increases in time spent abroad, and allowing spouses to visit or accompany students. Quells brain drain fears. Generally urges reform and greater investment in education. (CH)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Government Role
Harman, Grant, Ed.; Selim, M., Ed. – 1991
This book presents articles that document the serious funding problems faced by higher education institutions and systems in the Asian and Pacific region, and explores possible strategies to address these problems. It presents an overview of the financial situation faced by higher education in the region, and then discusses two main strategies…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Economic Impact
Zhi-Xiang, Cao; Zhang, Ren – 1989
Teaching is not considered a desirable occupation in China, and many teachers are unhappy in their jobs. Education is the weak sector within the bureaucracy. Because it has been neglected for a long time, especially during the Cultural Revolution, many people, including government officials, do not take the problems of education seriously. From…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Government School Relationship
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Shen, Anping – Journal of Education, 1994
Discusses teacher education reform and development during the Chinese Reform Era since 1978, and explains why it is so difficult to implement reforms in China. The author focuses on preservice teacher education provided at teachers' colleges or normal universities and the shift of China's resources and attention away from teacher preparation. (GR)
Descriptors: Chinese, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational History
Altbach, Philip G., Ed.; Johnstone, D. Bruce, Ed. – 1993
This book contains papers presented at a conference focused on the subject of funding for higher education and providing comparative perspectives on, and case studies of, educational financing from around the world. After an introduction by Ernest L. Boyer, the papers and their authors are as follows: "The Costs of Higher Education: Worldwide…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Finance, Educational Trends, Essays
Chinese Education: A Journal of Translations, 1990
Reports findings from a Shanghai (China) region survey assessing college faculty views on conditions and trends in Chinese education. Identifies professors' chief concerns: financial support, governmental action rather than propaganda, and sound policy formation. Related professors' understanding that educational reform is linked to national…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Policy
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