Baby Steps in Educational Reform: University Hires “Foreign” Vice-Chancellor
A recently developing trend of China’s 30-year-strong reform effort has focused on the educational system, which has been frequently criticised for retarding innovation, and causing a nationwide “brain drain”. In China it is standard practice for the Chancellor of a university to be appointed by the state, which ensures that the university will operate under the ideological mandates of the party. Critics argue that this organisational system hampers creativity and innovation. China, aware of these problems and their consequences, in recent years has been experimenting with new educational reforms. The following article originally appeared on China National Radio. Additional background information was researched from Wikipedia and Baike articles. |
