Expansion and inequality of higher education in China: how likely would Chinese poor students get to success?

Luo, Yan; Guo, Fei; Shi, Jinghuan

doi:10.1080/07294360.2018.1474856

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“…In the UK context, higher education expansion has been found to widen rather than bridge participation gaps (Boliver, 2011). In China, scholars have found that the rapid massification of higher education systems has failed to reduce educational inequity (Luo et al, 2018). According to a study, rural students accounted for 11% of the total student body at an elite university located in Beijing in 2009, while the population registered as rural residents accounted for 52% at that time (Lu et al, 2016).…”

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Hysteresis Effects and Emotional Suffering: Chinese Rural Students’ First Encounters With the Urban University

Chen

2020

Sociological Research Online

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In the Chinese context of a stratified higher education system and significant urban–rural inequality, rural students are generally facing constrained possibilities for social mobility through higher education. Despite these structural constraints, some exceptional rural students, like all the participants in this research, manage to get themselves enrolled in the urban university. Drawing on participants’ subjective narratives about their first encounters in the urban university, I argue that the rural students in this research were confronted with two levels of habitus–field disjunctures, namely, the rural–urban disjuncture and academic disjuncture. Then, through examining participants’ narratives about their hysteresis effects and emotional suffering, I suggest the sense of feeling lost and inferior reveals how various types of domination in the external structure of the field of the urban university play a part in affecting rural students’ inner emotional worlds.

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Hysteresis Effects and Emotional Suffering: Chinese Rural Students’ First Encounters With the Urban University

Chen

2020

Sociological Research Online

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“…According to this group, although the aim of the 'massification' was to reduce inequity in China, the structure of HE makes it almost impossible for low socioeconomic status students to access the elite Chinese universities (e.g. Luo et al 2018).…”

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China: A candidate for winner in the international game of higher education?

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Nagy

2020

AOecon

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The hegemony of the Western higher education institutions in the global university market is being challenged by China. The top Chinese universities have significantly improved their international ranking positions. When it comes, however, to the ability of universities to attract foreign students and faculty, the Chinese higher education institutions' performance raises questions. The International Outlook scores of these universities, although showing an increasing trend, are still lacking behind the U.S. or Western European top universities. China is primarily a student ‘exporter.’ It also became a leading destination country for students from Asia or Africa, but it is still far from reaching the ‘international openness’ level of the U.S. or the UK universities. The publication networks of the top Chinese higher education institutions indicate that these universities prefer to publish with other Chinese institutions or the U.S. universities.

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“…Nationally, since 1995, there are 116 universities described as “211 Project,” which are considered as flagship provincial universities for the purpose of promoting development. These universities are treated in priority to receive financial support from the government and grow faster than others (Luo, Guo, and Shi 2018). As a result, two cities with the same number of faculty members per university will have different functional levels according to the number of “211 Project” universities they house.…”

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Are Chinese Cities Oversized?

Shen

Thill

Sun

2019

International Regional Science Review

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In this article, the socioeconomic determinants on urban population in China are empirically investigated with a theoretical equilibrium model for city size. While much of the research on urban size focuses on the impact of agglomeration economies based on “optimal city size” theory, this model is eschewed in our research due to its theoretical paradox in the real world, and we turn instead toward an intermediate solution proposed by Camagni, Capello, and Caragliu. This equilibrium model is estimated on a sample of 111 prefectural cities in China with multiple regression and artificial neural networks. Empirical results have shown that the model explains the variance in the data very well, and all the determinants have significant impacts on Chinese city sizes. Although sample cities have reached their equilibrium sizes as a whole, there is substantially unbalanced distribution of population within the urban system, with a strong contingent of cities that are either squarely too large or too small.

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Expansion and inequality of higher education in China: how likely would Chinese poor students get to success?

Cited by 64 publications

References 21 publications

Hysteresis Effects and Emotional Suffering: Chinese Rural Students’ First Encounters With the Urban University

Hysteresis Effects and Emotional Suffering: Chinese Rural Students’ First Encounters With the Urban University

China: A candidate for winner in the international game of higher education?

Are Chinese Cities Oversized?

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