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Po, Yang; Cai, Yuzhuo; Lyytinen, Anu; Hölttä, Seppo – Chinese Education & Society, 2016
This paper intends to learn from international experiences in order to facilitating China's ongoing regional university transformation with an ultimate goal to enhance the role of university in regional economic development and innovation. In so doing, this paper compares major models of universities of applied sciences (UAS) around the world from…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Universities, Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions
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Cai, Yuzhuo; Yang, Po; Lyytinen, Anu; Hölttä, Seppo – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2015
China has recently launched a radical reform to transform over 600 regional universities into application and technology oriented institutions. The reform is a response to diverse labour market demands, regional economic development and the suboptimal structure of the higher education system, and uses international experiences as a reference.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Regional Schools, Educational Change, Higher Education
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Cai, Yuzhuo; Kivisto, Jussi – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2013
Recent Finnish policies have encouraged Finnish higher education institutions to develop a market-oriented approach to international higher education by implementing fee-based educational programmes for students from outside the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). From the Finnish government's perspective, higher education is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Public Service, Tuition