Hundreds of private colleges and universities have opened in China in the past decade in response to soaring demand for higher education in the world’s most populous nation.
Hundreds of private colleges and universities have opened in China in the past decade in response to soaring demand for higher education in the world’s most populous nation.
Long before the Chinese government began in earnest to reform the country's vocational-education system, a thriving private market provided many students with the technical training needed to get...
Duke University has appointed Liu Jingnan, former president of Wuhan University, to be chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, and Mary Brown Bullock, former president of Agnes Scott College, to be the institution’s executive vice chancellor
After more than a decade of phenomenal growth, private higher education institutions in China are beginning to face problems attracting students, with some colleges showing a significant drop in recruitment this year.
China's National People's Congress approved a new law in December 2002 that promotes Chinese private education development, including at the higher education level. It gives private institutions privileges and favorable policies enjoyed by their public counterparts, including tax and other financial benefits.
Universities and colleges are busy enrolling new students but for many non-public higher education institutions, this time of year has become a scramble for money.
Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan announced not to force private universities and colleges to change names after opposition lawmakers threatened to freeze a huge portion of the ministry's budget. The ministry had sent a letter to all universities and colleges with the words "China," "Chinese" or "Chunghwa" (Chinese) in their names and asked them to change their names to underscore Taiwan's identity and avoid confusion with mainland China following Taiwan's executive cabinet plan of changing the names of all of the nation's overseas missions and state-owned enterprises before the Dec. 11 legislative elections, which raised sharp criticisms from legislators of the opposition party.
Three Shanghai private colleges will be allowed to admit students without national college entrance exam score requirements this year, marking a major change in the city's decades-old higher education admission system.
Walk into any classroom at one of China's elite business schools and what you're likely to see isn't all that different from what you would find at Harvard, Wharton, or MIT's Sloan School. True, there's a preponderance of Asian faces and the occasional smattering of Mandarin. But the classes, course materials, subject matter, and even the teachers are virtually identical to their U.S. counterparts.
Shengda College in central China has a diverse curriculum, foreign faculty members to teach English and a manicured campus, where weeping willows shade a recreational lake.
In late August, Duke University received approval from the Chinese government to start a branch campus in Kunshan, China. The controversial venture has caused a number of critics to question Duke’s rationale, as well as the rationale of other prominent American universities that have tried similar operations, with limited success.
A Catholic group insisted it would press ahead with its bid to build a private university in Fanling as the government warned that basic infrastructure alone could cost HK$400 million.
Private educational institutions are reaching a new level of development, which requires a revised set of government policies and rules, national political advisers said.
The former Hang Seng School of Commerce, founded with initial funding from Hang Seng Bank that provided A-level courses and business education, changed its purpose and was renamed in 2010 as a provider of degree programmes in business, journalism, English and translation.
Bryant University is set to strengthen ties with China by signing new partnership agreements with two universities when a delegation led by a senior Chinese education official visits the private school in Smithfield over the weekend.