全球化背景下中国高等教育的挑战与对策

Challenges and Strategies for Chinese Higher Education in the Age of Globalization: A Qualitative Study

With the development of globalization， Chinese higher education encounters both opportunities and challenges. This study examines the major challenges and possible coping strategies for the current higher education in China through an extensive literature review and thirty in-depth interview with higher education stakeholders， including educators from Chinese academia， international academia， universities and local governments as well as international businesses representatives in China. Based on qualitative analysis， this study concludes that what Chinese higher education really needs is to establish a world-class university system based on the modernization of higher educational administrative system， rather than merely to establish a group of wor Id-class universities. Findings also suggest a need to enhance the diversity in what ways different types of universities in China may develop， and a demand to establish a quality assurance system which promotes to form culture of assessment within Chinese higher education.