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Higher Education Quality Assurance System in China

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The present book investigates the higher education quality assurance system and its impact on institutional transformation in China. This chapter elucidates the higher education quality assurance system in China. The first part of the chapter presents the context in which quality assurance schemes emerged in China. The evolution and status quo of Chinese higher education quality assurance system, both external and internal, are then portrayed. Quality Assessment of Undergraduate Education (QAUE) and Subject Evaluation, two of the most important national quality assessment schemes in China, are interpreted in detail in the next part of the chapter. The specific approaches to evaluation and the intended impact of the QAUE and the Subject Evaluation are shown, respectively. The previous impact studies on these two quality assessment schemes are reviewed as well.

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Notes

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    Italic type, as shown in the original document, indicates emphasis.

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    Teaching means undergraduate education and research includes graduate education, in this context.

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    The catalogue includes 13 subject groups (i.e. Philosophy, Economics, Law, Education, Literature, History, Natural Science, Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine, Military Science, Management and Art) and subdivided into 110 subjects, such as Theoretical Economics and Applied Economics in the Economics group, Chinese Literature, Foreign Literature and Journalism and Communication in the Literature group.

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    The Changjiang Scholar award is the highest academic award issued to an individual in higher education by the Ministry of Education of China. This award goes to China’s top scholars, who receive the title of Changjiang Distinguished Professor at their university and are provided with financial resources sufficient to enhance the research profile and international visibility of that university.

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Liu, S. (2016). Higher Education Quality Assurance System in China. In: Quality Assurance and Institutional Transformation. Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0789-7_4

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