<TITLE: Global Challenges of eDevelopment Conference 2
ACADEMIC DOMAIN: technology
DISCIPLINE: information sciences
EVENT TYPE: conference presentation
FILE ID: CPRE08L
NOTES: continuation of and continued in CDIS08B, session also includes presentations CPRE08I/P (CDIS08A and CPRE08A-F/H are part of the same conference)

RECORDING DURATION: 10 min 27 sec

RECORDING DATE: 15.3.2005

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: circa 30

NUMBER OF SPEAKERS: 2

S25: NATIVE-SPEAKER STATUS: Finnish; ACADEMIC ROLE: junior staff; GENDER: male; AGE: 31-50

S33: NATIVE-SPEAKER STATUS: Chinese; ACADEMIC ROLE: research student; GENDER: male; AGE: 31-50>


<S33> maybe maybe i sta- i start introduce myself my name is <NAME S33> i er i'm from china but currently i'm studying at the university er i'm not i'm not working on areas er as er most of you i'm wor- working on a a higher education management and er policy er my my presentation here is about er er the the tensions between the global and a and the local in the chinese higher education , and this presentation er </S33>
<S25> it's on </S25>
<S33> okay <P:10> so in this presentation i will start with a brief introduction for chinese higher education reforms and the reform contest and then i will er introduce some tensions confronted by chinese higher education namely political economic and the traditional . first i er i introduce the higher education reforms er since the late 1970s after the 1978 china has launched economic reforms together with a open door policy the reforms are triggered by er both golo- global pressures and er local national interests over that period china has oh sorry <USING POWERPOINT, P:07> over that period china has er been largely transformed from a centrally planned economy to a market oriented one . to meet the requirements arising from the economic transformation china has launched a series of higher edci- higher education reforms since the re- economic reforms are are driven by er global pressures and the local issues the higher education reforms cannot be exempt from the both pressures , the global and the local er pressures er or forces have raised different expectations for higher education , as a result of the mission of er as a result of of the reform the mission of higher education have has shift from a centrally planned model to a phi- philosophies underlined by economic transformation <USING POWERPOINT, P:06> now i i move on to er the tensions confronted by er chinese higher education first is er tensions in the political dimension first in the past two two two decades chinese higher education has experienced a sharp expansion as a result the tension er , as a result you know the er the economic reform somehow is influenced er by the capitalist u- ideas but nevertheless china in the moment still remains a socialist ent- entity so the country now is facing a in- inevitable dilemmas between the socialist and the capitalist ideologies , second , in face of internationalisation especially china is joining the WTO the chinese authorities wishes to obtain economic benefits but in the meantime feel uncomfortable with the cost on the social political and the cultural readjustment , third against er such a background higher education considered a better government at the important and the ideological battlefield have consequently emerged in the tensions between the emerging democratic ideas and the party's fundamental principles , next during the past er 20 years china has attempted to cast off a centrally planned system in sta- in spite of a wide range of structural changes it's still a consideral- considerable challenge to alter all the concept in people's mind , therefore it's still early to claim that the active participation of the society and the individuals with the respect to higher education is reality in most er cases the society's expectation can hardly be translated into higher education agenda either through governmental policies or institutional operation . in the economic dimension first , because china's higher education has experienced a a sharp expantens- ex- expansion er as as such the tensions between public spending and the the (curves) of cost has been exaggerated , second currently one of the major funding resources for university are tuition fees to attract the students universities adjusted their programmes to other areas such as er information technology laws and the business management which may er lead to a promising employment the orint- the reorientation of the programmes will hopefully contribute to some economic sectors but in the meantime may er (aggravate) the the imbalance between the regions and the economic sections . after continuous enrolment expansion in the recent years the gross higher education enrolment ratio has exceeded 15 per cent which marks realisation of mass higher education in china , (xx) china will make a lot effort in the future to deal with the problems such as the decline of er education er decline of education quality . the devaluation of university degrees er the s- the scarc- scarcity of educational resources and the unemp- unemployment of er graduates , in a traditional dimension first since the late 1970s china has stepped into a market oriented economy which is a legal and a credible system it requires complete regulation and laws as well as awareness of the people to be able to follow these rules however the large addition of ruled by men instead of ruled by law has become a big problem . where the legislation or the (xx) people's weak legal consciousness undermines the implementation of laws and the policies in some ways a situation where a law cannot be implemented is even worse than a situation where a law is not created at all because this may hinder the efforts to improve people's legal consciousness , chinese has long tradition of linking the concept of competition and the relatively weak creativity now chinese higher education has been adjust to a market system chat- char- characterised by er competition and er creativity (xx) the reform concerning qualification oriented education largely in the 1999 is aimed to improve students' creativity and er the concept of competition however many educational administrators and the teachers are still confused with the definition of a quality oriented education apparently they tend to understand it as merely (xx) rather than seeing it as something creative <USING POWERPOINT, P:08> the last decade saw significant challenges and changes in chinese higher education as positive aspects has been er largely discussed and recorded at least in china so in this presentation i only cover some er some problems underlying the current chinese higher education reforms in the end i want to say that the real challenge for chinese higher education is not merely the tensions between the national issues and the the global particularly western influences but how to choose a sui- a suitable approach to solve these problems so that's all for my presentation and er thanks for your at- attention and welcome with your questions </S33>
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