Table of Contents

History of Higher Education.- Structure of Higher Education.- Higher Education Management.- Admission and Graduate Employment.- Specialized Higher Education.- Undergraduate Education.- Postgraduate Education.- Research in HEIs.- Teaching Staff in HEIs.

About the Author

Professor Gu Jianmin is a scholar in the field of higher education management and policy in China with several published manuscripts in the field and hundreds of journal articles. He has produced several books on the development and reform of tenure systems in the UK, the US and Germany,  the development strategy of private higher education in China, science popularization at higher education institutions, the models and formations of university governance, and essentials of engineering education, etc. He also serves as a senior administrator at the College of Education, Zhejiang University.  
Xueping Li is an assistant professor at the Institute of Higher Education, Zhejiang University, whose research interests lie in institutional research, general education at undergraduate colleges, and comparative education. He has published a book on the curriculum development of general education at American universities, as well as dozens of researcharticles in Chinese journals.

Lihua Wang is an associate professor at the Institute of Higher Education, Zhejiang University, whose primary research interests include performance-related policies in the field of higher education, international and comparative education, as well as educational policy and leadership. She has published several manuscripts on performance-based funding in China and England, the competitiveness of academic disciplines at world-class universities, and models of undergraduate education from an international perspective. She has also published dozens of research articles in Chinese and English-language journals.