Reflections on Equity of Access to Quality Higher Education under the Trend of Massification in China
Higher education in China has undergone the transition from an elite to a mass model and is witnessing the accelerated massification of higher education with enormously larger share of people in the relevant age group going on to higher education.This change, however, has not removed the prevailing egalitarian concerns for equal educational opportunities.As the fact stands, elite higher education institutions are distributed unevenly in China, provincially-based enrollment program that makes the educational disadvantage more pronounced in the disadvantaged locations.To a considerable measure, regional disparities and flawed enrollment system impede the quest for equity in attaining high quality tertiary education.The paper, therefore, examines this key and neglected dimension to the study of educational inequality, inequality in accessibility of elite universities, contends that research on egalitarian issues of higher education needs to shift its emphasis from enrollment expansion in a quantitative sense to whether equal access to higher education of an excellent standing can be granted, and explores feasible measures to tackle the obstacles observed in present unequal access to quality higher education.
Higher education Massification Regional disparity Quality higher education
JI Hong-juan
School of Literature and Laws,North China Institute of Science and Technology,Beijing,P.R.China,101601
国际会议
2013 International Conference on Public Administration (9th)(2013年第九届公共管理国际会议)
南非
英文
544-548
2013-10-31（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）