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Changing Governance in China’s Higher Education: Some Analyses of the Recent University Enrollment Expansion Policy

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The Search for New Governance of Higher Education in Asia

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Globalization, as a description of both putatively real processes and of certain kinds of discourses (Urry 1998, 8), has been taken as a salient feature of our times in significant modern and postmodern social theories. Its impacts on the university are substantial, inasmuch as they challenge the long tradition of higher education as a “public good” (Marginson 2006, 12). In a context of increasingly intensified globalization, higher education entrepreneurialism has become prevalent. It is therefore common for political and institutional commentary to cite “globalization” as justification for “rationalization” and “corporatization” (Kenway and Langmead 1998), and as a governing discourse to justify governmental policy options.

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Rui, Y. (2010). Changing Governance in China’s Higher Education: Some Analyses of the Recent University Enrollment Expansion Policy. In: Ka-Ho, M. (eds) The Search for New Governance of Higher Education in Asia. International and Development Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230111554_4

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