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Xiaoming Tian – European Journal of Education, 2024
This study employs Bernstein's concept of "recontextualization" and Rata's theorization of the "Curriculum Design Coherence [CDC] model" as theoretical tools to analyse the "Curriculum Standard for Chinese Language" ["Standard"] (The "Standard," the "Guidance," the "Plan and"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Values, Social Systems, Educational Policy
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Bin Liu; Gongming Qian; Yuting Shen; Chen Shen – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Leadership is a critical determinant of university performance. While much attention has been given to the personal traits of university leaders, the differences in leaders' political capital are largely neglected. Grounded in the framework of power relations in the management domain and contextualised in Chinese elite universities, the study has…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Foreign Countries, College Administration, Administrators
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Bing Liu; Miguel Antonio Lim – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2024
This study contributes one of the first explorations into how provincial governments shaped the WCU building discourse in tandem with universities. Using a resource dependence approach and insights from institutional isomorphism, it develops a conceptual framework with three perspectives (national government, provincial governments and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Planning, Educational Policy, State Government
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Do, Ha Thi Hai; Mai, Anh Ngoc – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
This study used the historical research method to explore the Chinese government's role in building world-class universities. We traced the government's role in pushing policies for: (1) accelerating academic improvement; and (2) enhancing the involvement of provincial governments in achieving universities' world-class status. The findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Government Role, Educational Policy
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Haiyan Qian; Allan Walker; Shuangye Chen – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
In July 2021 the Chinese Government unexpectedly released what has become known colloquially as the 'Double-Reduction' policy. The policy decreed the reduction of homework pressure on students and greater control of private tutorial companies. In this paper, we set out to understand why the Chinese central government launched the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Homework
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Tran, Ly Thi; Nguyen, Diep Thi Bich; Blackmore, Jill; He, Baogang; Vu, Huy Quan – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
Geopolitics is shaping the international education landscape. International education has trationally been used as a tool to boost transnational cooperation, foster multilateral and global ties, and reduce tensions between nations. Such a role has been eroded and international education has been weaponised in the context of escalating political…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Politics, Risk Management
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Yang, Po; Wang, Rong – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
Regional higher education growth in non-federal states has not attracted much academic attention. This paper is one of the first attempts to explore China's latest higher education expansion and its systematic and regional impact from the perspective of multi-level governance. This article argues that the state had explicitly utilized the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Development, Geographic Regions
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Tao, Claire Y. H. – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2020
During 1980, many Western countries launched public administration reforms. These reform waves also blew over to many Asian countries. With the advent of globalization and the rise of knowledge-based society, education and innovation are regarded as the driving forces behind social and economic growth and development. To enhance the national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Higher Education, Comparative Education
Ettlinger, Michael; Hensley, Jordan; Vieira, Julia – Carsey School of Public Policy, 2019
In this brief, authors Michael Ettlinger, Jordan Hensley, and Julia Vieira analyze how much the governments of different countries spend, and on what, to illuminate the range of fiscal policy options available and provide a basis for determining which approaches work best. They report that the United States ranks twenty-fourth in government…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Taxes, Health, Armed Forces
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Han, Shuangmiao – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
China has adopted policy experimentation (PE) as a means of introducing and testing innovative policy options for reforms in higher education (HE). This paper explores how PE plays out in the HE sector, involving state actors and university actors in a dynamic interactive process and bringing about institutional changes. This paper proposes a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Innovation, Educational Change
Wu, Zunmin – ECNU Review of Education, 2021
Purpose: This study systematically reviews the China's progress in lifelong education (LLE) policies, theories, and practices in the 40 years since its reform and opening-up and provides several guidelines for developing LLE going forward. Design/Approach/Methods: This study analyzes the characteristics of LLE in China through a review of its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Xiaohong, Li – Chinese Education & Society, 2019
The structure of higher education in China is characterized by a high degree of hierarchy as well as strong homogeneity, differing from not only American higher education, which features a high degree of both hierarchy and heterogeneity, but also higher education in continental Europe, which exhibits a low degree of hierarchy. Previous studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Federal Government, Power Structure
Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board, 2020
Achieving prosperity for all Americans could not be more urgent. Although the United States remains the most prosperous nation on earth, millions of citizens are losing faith in the American dream of upward mobility, and in American-style capitalism itself. This crisis of confidence has widened the divide afflicting American politics and cries out…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Economic Impact, Economic Change
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Kaushik, Madhulika; Dhanarajan, G. – Journal of Learning for Development, 2018
Like all organisations, good governance is a fundamental requirement for the responsible and accountable management of universities in general and open universities in particular. This is to ensure that these (open) universities remain relevant to their mission of facilitating unfettered access to higher education for citizens and at the same time…
Descriptors: Governance, Open Universities, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries
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Wang, Yan; Liu, Xuan; Zhang, Zhenhong – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2018
The Chinese government has attached great importance to the development of e-learning since its emergence in the 1990s. As a consequence of the implementation of a series of policies, China has made significant achievements in the e-learning arena with respect to infrastructure construction, production of resources, academic education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Educational History, Information Technology
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