eprintid: 10185203
rev_number: 9
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creators_name: Liu, Xu
creators_name: Zhang, Yanli
creators_name: Zhao, Xiantong
creators_name: Hunt, Stephen
creators_name: Yan, Wuyin
creators_name: Wang, Yitao
title: The development of independent colleges and their separation from their parent public universities in China
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divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
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keywords: Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Humanities, Multidisciplinary, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary, Arts & Humanities - Other Topics, Social Sciences - Other Topics, CORPORATE SOCIAL-RESPONSIBILITY
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abstract: With the highest number of students in private higher education in the world, China is updating the governance system for this sector. This process involves independent colleges, which were founded by and remain associated with public universities, but which are privately funded. As one of the strategies to improve the development of independent colleges, in 2008 the Ministry of Education asked these colleges to separate from their parent public universities. However, by the end of 2020, over half of the 2008 colleges had still not separated but, over the next year, the outstanding figure suddenly dropped by one-third. This paper analyses the factors affecting the separation from the viewpoints of different stakeholders. Private funders have an interest in making use of the parent universities’ resources and controlling and gaining financial returns from the colleges; for the parent universities, the management fees paid by the colleges are an important priority, while, for local government, more and better higher education places with less public finance is a key goal. Currently, there are few studies in the English language literature on independent colleges. By disseminating experiences of higher education reform in China, our findings could have important implications for government policymakers and for senior and practicing managers in universities.
date: 2022-12-03
date_type: published
publisher: SPRINGERNATURE
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01433-9
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1994856
doi: 10.1057/s41599-022-01433-9
medium: Print-Electronic
pii: 1433
lyricists_name: Hunt, Stephen
lyricists_id: SHUNT58
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
funding_acknowledgements: BIA210200 [Chinese National Education Science]
full_text_status: public
publication: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume
volume: 9
number: 1
article_number: 435
pages: 11
event_location: England
issn: 2662-9992
citation:        Liu, Xu;    Zhang, Yanli;    Zhao, Xiantong;    Hunt, Stephen;    Yan, Wuyin;    Wang, Yitao;      (2022)    The development of independent colleges and their separation from their parent public universities in China.                   Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume , 9  (1)    , Article 435.  10.1057/s41599-022-01433-9 <https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01433-9>.       Green open access   
 
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