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Moving Towards the Equality of Quality in Higher Education

China’s Institutional Construction of Higher Education Since 1949

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In the last sixty years, the demand for higher education in China has resulted in enormous expansion of the sector. During this period, the institutional construction of China’s higher education equality experienced three stages, namely: a stage of rights equality within class (1949–1977); a stage of opportunity equality (1978–2006); and a stage of moving towards equality of quality (2007– ) (Yang, 2006a; Zhang, 2012a). This chapter offers a critique of China’s higher education equality process and has two parts: the first part introduces and analyses the three stages of China’s higher education equality institutional construction; the second part reflects on realization of the process towards quality equity of higher education.

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    Indika Liyanage

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    Badeng Nima

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Ye, Z. (2016). Moving Towards the Equality of Quality in Higher Education. In: Liyanage, I., Nima, B. (eds) Multidisciplinary Research Perspectives in Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-615-6_14

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