Discusses the development of scientific and technological education at the university level in China over the last decade. Describes higher education before the period of modernization and reform, the advent of private universities, the growth of adult education programs, and the response of regular colleges and universities to innovative economic…

This paper examines education in China from 1949 to 1979. Education plays a key role in Chinese society. The main goal of Chinese educational policy is to produce workers with both socialist consciousness and culture. The Chinese conception of education is very broad and includes the regular school system, work-study education, and informal mass…