Restructuring Chinese Higher Education

Transformation and Restructuring: A New Institutional Landscape for Higher Education

The origins of the current institutional structure of the higher education system can be traced to the geopolitical imagination of apartheid’s master planner, Hendrik Verwoerd, and his reactionary ideological vision of “separate but equal development”. This was given effect through the enactment in 1959 of the Universities Extension Act, which far from extending access to higher education on th...

Information Literacy in Chinese Higher Education

With the development of the information society, education is facing great challenges and opportunities. Information literacy is recognized as a basic competency of individuals that ought to be incorporated into the educational mission. In order to enhance information education, Chinese educators and librarians have been reviewing traditional information instruction, and they are preparing to e...

Organizational Diveristy in Chinese Private Higher Education

On American and Chinese Higher Education

The main differences between American and Chinese higher education are displayed in administrative system, teaching methods, curriculum, assessment and moral education. However, the two countries also have enlightened each other for the past periods in educational idea and other aspects of higher education. The two countries both have advantages and shortcomings, so they open to each other and ...

Research in the Development Trend of Chinese Higher Education Informatization

Information Technology (IT) now plays a very important role in sustainable development of Chinese society and economy at all levels. Especially for Chinese higher education (CHE), it is a bridgehead to lead the society, culture, and economy. Therefore, the progress of higher education informatization has received much attention in China. In this paper, we firstly choose the development of CHE i...