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Author(s)
Wong Wei Chin, Yuan Wan, Wang Xun
Yan Siqi
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DOI:10.17265/2161-6248/2019.03.001
Affiliation(s)
United International College (UIC), Zhuhai, China
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, England
ABSTRACT
As China moves toward a market
system after the “reforms and opening-up” policy since the late 1970s,
internationalization is receiving widespread attention at many academic
institutions in mainland
China. Today, there are 70 Sino-Foreign joint institutions (namely, “Chinese-Foreign Higher
Education Partnership”) presently operating within the Chinese nation. Despite the fact
that the majority of these joint institutions have been developed since the
1990s, surprisingly little work has been published that addresses its physical distribution in China, and the prospects and
challenges faced by the faculty and institutions on an operational level. What
are the incentives of adopting both Western and Chinese elements in higher
education? How do we ensure the higher education models developed in the West can also work
well in mainland China? In order
to answer the aforementioned questions,
the purpose of this paper is therefore threefold: (a) to
navigate the current development of
internationalization in China; (b) to compare conventional
Chinese curriculum with the “hybrid” Chinese-Foreign education model in present Guangdong province, China; and (c) to delineate the prospects and challenges of
developing the internalize Chinese-Foreign higher education in contemporary China.
KEYWORDS
internationalization, higher education, Chinese-Foreign higher education institutions, higher education models, universities in Guangdong province, China
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