This dissertation is a case study of the shift from a state-control model to a state-supervision
model of governance in Chinese higher education between 1985 and 2002. The researcher …

Chinese higher education has undergone dramatic changes since the mid-1980s. Over the
past two decades, the traditional public system of higher education has transformed to be …

Unlike the Mao era when educational development was entirely directed by the central
government, there has been a strong trend to diversification and decentralization of …

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 …

This paper examines institutional governance of the public university in China, investigating
the extent to which government has sponsored the autonomy of universities since the …

China has the world's largest higher education system with more than twenty million college
students. The past three decades have witnessed continuous reforms in Chinese higher …

After introducing the decentralized administration system of higher education institutions
adjustment reform in the end of 1990's, the important influence on the behavior of …

The forms of governance in higher education represent and reveal the essence of higher
education, and one of the quickest means of understanding higher education in a given …

This chapter analyzes the background, structures, problems and challenges, reforms, and
trends in the governance of higher education institutions in China. It concludes that the …

There are widespread concerns about the changing role of the state in higher education, in
which decentralization is one of the prominent processes of higher education reform …