<p><font color="#33711E"><strong>Day 3 – Session 5B: China’s higher education for sustainable development from international perspectives</strong></font></p>
Queen's Park 4, 08:30 - 10:00
08:30 - 08:50
5.B.1. Reform and Development of China’s Higher Education: Trends and Issues
Zhao Li
East China Normal University, China
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08:50 - 09:10
5.B.2. China’s High Rate Expansion of Higher Education: Issues and Problems
Li Jing
East China Normal University, China
The expansion of higher education is an inevitable trend as a result of the social and economic development in the world. In China, the number of enrollments and the size of college students body in universities and colleges maintain a sustainable increase now. In 1999, the Chinese government began to carry out policies concerning the expansion of higher education; in 2002, the gross enrollment rate of high schools reached 15%, indicating the realization of the mass higher education in China. In this paper, the author gives a presentation of China's expanding process of higher education in different aspects. The paper describes the present situation in China's higher education, including its influence on the society, and focuses on introducing the solving measures in terms of such problems as the quality and employment issues emerging during the expanding process.
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09:10 - 09:30
5.B.3. Development of Diversified Higher Education: An Overview
Li Qun
East China Normal University, China
The presentation begins with an overview that nowadays China has established a higher education system that embraces various ways, types and funding Streams for school running. The paper focuses on the following three aspects：
a) Diversification of higher education institutions Higher education institutions in China include regular universities, adult universities, and university colleges, advanced vocational institutions as well as other alternative forms of higher education institutions.
b) Diversification of funding Streams for higher education While investment in higher education still relies heavily on state-allocated budgets, diversification via donations from society, enterprises, public institutions, and individuals has been encouraged.
c) Diversification of Degrees and diplomas Degrees titles vary from university to universities. The most common titles are Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Science and doctor of Philosophy.
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09:30 - 09:50
5.B.4. Reinventing Higher Teacher Education in China: Toward Participatory and Sustainable Development
Xiong Jian-hui
East China Normal University, China
Poor country running big education" is no longer satisfying the people in China. It is up-grading to "big country running strong education". The quality of teachers is again a bottleneck for the up-grading. Teacher education in China has developed rapidly in recent years, supporting the largest education system in the world. With significant changes on economy and society globally and locally, teacher education system in China has shown its disadvantages and backwardness. It faces new challenges. This paper will begin with an introduction to the paradigm shift in the theoretical perspectives for teacher education worldwide. It will be followed by a list of transforming features occurring to the teacher education in China such as from normal education to teacher education, from closed system to open system, old three-staged system to new three-staged system, etc. In view of reinventing higher teacher education in China toward participatory and sustainable development, the paper will present several cases of colleges and universities in China's higher teacher education that are happening in China.
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09:50 - 10:10
5.B.5 The current situation and development trend of exchange and cooperation between Chinese and Japanese tertiary institution
Xiong Chun
East China Normal University, China
Education as an impetus to support a regional development was a focus of exchange and cooperation among countries historically. The education cooperation between China and Japan could be traced back to Sui and Tang dynasty, which have contributed tremendously to two countries' development. Recently, the exchange and cooperation on education between China and Japan are concentrated on tertiary education, which involves exchange of professors, inviting experts mutually, international academic forum, Cooperatively-running Schools and Research. Tertiary institution is the main actor, which plays an important and unique role on economic and social development in the whole national education systems. With the rapid development of globalization and information technology, the diversification of cooperation environment, content and model on education exchange has surfaced. With the support of international education organizations and bilateral governments and civil groups, the current situation and related topics on exchange and cooperation of the tertiary institution between China and Japan have become major concerns, including sharing education resources by exerting mutual advantages, executing mutual institutional advantages by developing effective methods to exchange and cooperation and participating in the planning of social development.
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