China Higher Education in 2020 ---based on National Mid and Long Term (2010-2020) Educational Reform and Development Plan (MOE, July, 2010)

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China Higher Education in 2020 ---based
on National Mid and Long Term (2010-2020)
Educational Reform and Development Plan (MOE,
July, 2010)

• Yuchen Yang (Prof)
• Northeast Normal University, China,
• Sept 20th, 2010

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Contents

• Redefining education
• Current problems of education in China
• General strategies
• Strategic goals and Themes
• Higher education in China
• Reform on college entrance testing system
• Expanding international education
• Training high quality teachers
• Next five-year plan of Northeast Normal
  University

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1. New interpretation of what education means
to China

• Education is the cornerstone of national
  prosperity and social development, the route to
  improve national quality and the expectation for
  a better life of all families.
• Compared with the definition in the Education Law
  of the Peoples Republic of China (1985)
• Education is the basis of socialist
  modernization, and the State shall ensure
  priority to the development of educational
  undertakings. The whole society should be
  concerned with and support the development of
  educational undertakings.

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2. Current Problems of Education in China

• The development of education in China cannot keep
  up with the social
• and economic development, neither can it meet the
  needs of the
• people, particularly in terms of
• Educational conception is still backward
• Teaching contents and methodology need upgrading.
  
• Workload for primary and secondary school pupils
  is too heavy.
• The implementation of quality education is
  ineffective.
• Students have low social adaptability and
  creative education should be reinforced.
• Inter-disciplinary talents are in badly need.
• Education mechanism is not well established.
• School management needs vitality.
• Education structural distribution needs
  regulation.
• The development of education in urban and rural
  areas is still unbalanced .

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3. General strategies

• To give priority to educational development and
  to build a strong nation of human resources.
• Orientations
• 1) Priority is given to the development of
  educational undertakings.
• 2) Students are the center of attention.
• 3) Innovation is the driving force of educational
  development.
• To encourage educational innovation in
  training models, school running mechanisms,
  quality evaluation and testing systems for
  college entrance system.
• 4) Education equity is the basic educational
  policy.
• Equity of access opportunity. The government
  will be responsible to regulate the educational
  resources, help the disadvantaged classes and
  give support to remote areas and minority regions
  in order to narrow the gap between regional
  difference as well as urban and rural areas.
• 5) Quality improvement is the main task of
  educational reform.
• Quality education means the all round
  development and the social adaptability of the
  students.

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4. Strategic goals and Strategic Themes

• Goals
• By 2020, education in China will have been
  generally modernized, and China will become a
  learning society, and will be one of the strong
  nations of human resources.
• To reach a high level of popularization
  education, specifically
• Popularization of pre-school education,
• Retain and improve the achievement of nine-year
  compulsory education.
• Popularize senior school education with a gross
  entrance rate of 90
• Promote mass education with a gross entrance rate
  into higher education institutions at 40 .
• The average schooling of the new labor force will
  be raised from 12.4 years to 13.5 years.
• The Average schooling of major labor force will
  be raised from 9.5 years to 11.2 years, among
  whom 20 will have an experience of higher
  education.
• The number of population with higher education
  will be doubled.

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4. Strategic goals and Strategic Themes

• Theme
• To take students as the center and carry out all
  round quality education.

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5. Higher education in China

• To raise higher education quality.
• By 2020, The structure of China higher education
  will have been regulated. The levels of teaching,
  science research and social services will have
  been greatly improved. And China will hold a
  batch of internationally well known higher
  education teaching institutions, with their
  unique features and high quality, close or equal
  to the best universities in the world.

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5. Higher education in China

• To raise the quality of training.
• Teaching will be regarded as the major component
  for teacher evaluation.
• The government will try to improve teaching
  infrastructures and facilities, to perfect credit
  systems, put emphasis on the process of practice
  and encourage cooperation with enterprises and
  train high quality creative personnel with strong
  faith, good morality, sound knowledge, and
  special skills.
• To raise the level of science research
• We will continue to follow the principle that
  projects serve the goals of the nations
  development, and individual research interest
  will still be encouraged.
• To strengthen the capability to serve the society
• We will tray to fasten the process of
  transforming scientific research into technical
  product.
• To prioritize educational structures with
  particular features
• Prioritization includes that of higher education
  structures, subjects of learning, types of
  institutions, levels of education, etc.

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6. College entrance testing system reform

• To promote the reform on entrance testing system
• Gradually realize the goal that admission does
  not solely rely on test results
• Integrated evaluation and multiple ways of
  admission (results from achievement tests will be
  taken into consideration )
• Give more freedom to both the university and the
  students. To promote public and social monitoring.

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7. Expanding international education

• To enlarge international communication and
  cooperation
• To train international talents by helping them
  establish a world view, know international laws,
  and be able to take part in international affairs
  and join international competition, particularly
• To import excellent educational resources
• To set up international exchanges and
  collaborations with well known colleges,
  educational and science research institutions,
  and enterprises.
• To attract best experts to teach in China,
  do science research or be engaged in
  administration. To import excellent teaching
  materials.
• To raise the level of cooperation and exchanges
• To accept credits and educational experiences,
  support teacher exchanges, students exchanges,
  credits and diploma offer collaborations
• To encourage graduates to work in Confucian
  institutions
• Enlarge the scale of foreign students in China.
  Increase Chinese government scholarships,
  focusing on developing nations.
• Actively collaborate with the UNESCO and take
  part in the discussion of global issues and
  enlarge regional education cooperation.

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8. Training high quality teachers

• To continue to provide government funding to
  teacher training programs. To encourage graduates
  to work in remote and rural areas, in order to
  improve teaching quality.
• To raise teachers social status and raise their
  salary
• To provide accommodation and additional
  benefits to those who work in rural and remote
  areas.
• To raise the standard and criterion for teacher
  selection and provide in-service training for
  teaching staffs.

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9. Northeast Normals Twelfth five Year Plan
as a response to the National Mid and Long Term
Educational Reform and Development Plan

• General aims
• To build NENU into an integrative,
  research-oriented, internationalized university
  which features for its world class teacher
  training programs.

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9. Northeast Normals Twelfth five Year Plan

• General aims
• Integrative multiple subjects of learning (both
  teacher-training and non-teacher training
  program. Science and arts subjects interrelated,
  economics and engineering and so on)
• Research oriented Theory building, technology
  creation and education innovation.
• Internationalization to enlarge the scale of
  teachers and students exchanges. To change the
  educational ideology, contents, and methodology.
  
• Teachers university the basic orientation and
  development.
• The basic task of the university is to serve
  basic education, to develop and renew teacher
  education models.

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9. Northeast Normals Twelfth five Year Plan

• The strategic focus of the next five years
• To give priority to the development of teacher
  training programs
• Strong areas as Biology, Chemistry, World
  history, Education, Language, politics, Chinese
  literature and culture in NENU will be further
  strengthened.

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9. Northeast Normals Twelfth five Year Plan

• Development tasks
• Students enrollment number will remain stable.
  Currently 21,000 full time students (14,000
  undergraduates, 6,000 postgraduates, among which
  400 PhDs), Overseas students 1,000, and continued
  education students 30,000).
• Academic programs remains stable Undergraduate
  programs 60. Masters programs 150, PhD
  programs 80.
• Full time teachers 1,600, part time 300. The
  ratio between the teacher and student is 141.

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9. Northeast Normals Twelfth five Year Plan

• International cooperation
• long term foreign experts 35 annually
• short term experts 1,000.
• 10 undergraduates join exchange programs, 10-15
  postgraduates (200-300 people annually)
• Young teachers (born after 1963) should have
  international experiences with at least 6 months.
  
• International academic meetings reach 30 annually
  
• 1,000 overseas students
• 6 Confucian schools

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Summary

• NENU feels a heavy pressure more competitive
• University management
• To be strong science research and high quality
  teaching
• To be special teacher training programs world
  first class
• To be open international exchanges and
  cooperation

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• Thanks for your attention!
• You are welcome to NENU!