Author(s)

Xu Huibo ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Corresponding Author

ABSTRACT

Since the founding of new China, China's higher education has made historic achievements. China's education reform and development can be roughly divided into four stages: the foundation stage (1949-1984), the reforming stage (1985-1998), the stage of popularization(1999-2013) and the connotation development stage (from 2004 to now). With the deepening of China's higher education reform, it has made great achievements in terms of scale, quality, fairness and international influence. In particular, the 40 years since the reform and opening up is a very extraordinary historical stage in the development of China's higher education cause. Among those changes, there is a significant one, that is, the expansion of higher education in China.  With the expansion of China's higher education, higher education began to become privatized, decentralized and internationalized. And as its incessant expansion, it also had some significant influences and challenges. This essay mainly talks about the expansion of Chinese higher education in the past 20 years and figures out the effects on Chinese higher education expansion.

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Xu Huibo, A Study on the Expansion and Its Effects on Higher Education in China . Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2024) Vol. 8: 146-152. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2024.080119.

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