China Pushes Higher EducationChinese higher education is moving more towards "mass education", said Gu Mingyuan, vice chairman of the China Education Society.He made these remarks while addressing a Seminar on Changing Patterns in University Management, hosted by Qinghua University, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Program on Institutional Management in Higher Education, and the Hong Kong Baptist University. Gu, a professor from Beijing Normal University, said that higher education has witnessed great changes in the education system and the curriculum in the past ten years. "A huge increase in college enrollment in recent years is symptomatic of the changes which have taken place in higher education." Gu said that efforts to popularize higher education overseas have been successful with college enrollment in many developed countries exceeding 30 percent. In other developed countries, college enrollments have exceed 50 percent. In contrast, college enrollments in China stand at 10 percent. Gu predicts that higher education will continue to develop in China in the new century. "Receiving higher education will be the right of every Chinese." |
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