A Short Overview of China’s Higher Education, and Students Global Mobility

Jean Philippe Berlie

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A Short Overview of China’s Higher Education, and Students Global Mobility

Jean Philippe Berlie

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Background: China launched in 2013 a global project called the One Belt One Road (OBOR), renamed later the Belt and Road Inititive. This idea of modernization also exists for the higher education. Objective: This is an overview of China's higher education and prospects of development. Method: Reading and enquiry shows that China's higher education is global and has ambitious programs on higher education. Result: Between 1990 and 2010, in just twenty years, China made unbelievable progresses in higher education and stands probably unique in the world history for its progresses. The number of universities in China was 1908 in 2007, 2491 in 2013 and 2631 in 2017 (Statista 2019). This number has increased constantly over the past decade. In 2012, 400,000 of mainland China students left and studied abroad, in 2013 this number increased to 420,000 and became 550,000 in 2016 (China’s Minister of Education). The number of foreign students who came to study in China was 320,000, 380,000 and 440,000 in 2012, 2013 and 2016 respectively. In 2019, the first university of China was Tsinghua University in Beijing, followed by Beijing University, Zhejiang University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In the world university ranking table, Tsinghua was respectively ranked the 71^st in 2012, 52^nd in 2013, 30^th in 2018 and 22^nd in 2019. There are huge changes in higher education in China, and student mobility in higher education is high. Conclusion: This paper compares globalization, and study in particular glocalization. China certainly accepts the fact that it is more convenient to retain some Chinese local tradition, and keeps the best norms of the international higher education adapted to the Chinese cultural concepts. This is probably why China’s higher education has reached its present high level.

Published in	Higher Education Research (Volume 4, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.her.20190404.11
Page(s)	52-55
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China (The People’s Republic of China), Globalization, Glocalization, Higher Education, Sinicization, Student Mobility

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