The Future of Education

As China moves toward a market system after the “reforms and opening-up” policy since the late 1970s, internationalization is receiving widespread attention at academic institutions in Mainland China. Today, there are more than sixty Sino-Foreign joint institutions (namely “Chinese-Foreign Higher Education Partnerships”) operating within the Chinese nation. Despite the fact that the majority of these joint institutions and partnerships have been developed since the 1990s, surprisingly little work has been published that addresses the roles, responsibilities, and challenges faced by the faculty and institutions on an operational level. How do we ensure the education models developed in the West can also work well in Mainland China? What are the incentives of adopting a “hybrid system” with both Western and Chinese elements in higher education? In order to answer the aforementioned questions and to better navigate the diverse challenges and responsibilities on mapping internationalization in China, this paper provides a pragmatic framework to compare and discuss the rationale behind the changes of education model in several higher education institutions in present Guangdong province, China, since the beginning of the twenty first century.
 

Keywords: Internationalization in Higher Education, Chinese-Foreign Higher Education Institutions, Education Models, Universities in Guangdong;
 

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