Author(s)

Jianing Liu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Nanfang College, Guangzhou, China

Corresponding Author

Jianing Liu

ABSTRACT

In the context of globalization, increasing the economic competitiveness of the country depends more and more on the educational outputs. In order to conform to the trend of globalization and better advance with the times, China's higher education has been continuously explored since the reform and opening up, especially in the past two decades and these changes and reforms are mainly in the trend of massification and marketization. With the trend of massification and marketization of higher education, the issue of equity and efficiency in education has attracted increasing attention from the public. How to balance educational equity and efficiency becoming a hot issue of concern in the Chinese educational context. In this essay, the writer will expound how does massification marketization and of higher education affecting the equity and efficiency of Chinese educational context.

KEYWORDS

Higher Education, China, Educational Equity, Educational Efficiency, Marketization, Massification

CITE THIS PAPER

Jianing Liu, Balance between Educational Equity and Efficiency in the Background of Massification and Marketization of China's Higher Education. Adult and Higher Education (2022) Vol. 4: 89-94. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aduhe.2022.041114.

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