Abstract
China’s non-government Higher Education sector has experienced 40 years of growth but has faced a range of problems in recent years. There is an urgent need to think carefully about future directions and approaches that non-government universities might take. Internationalization is changing the world of education and has become important strategically for Higher Education institutions across the world. This research explores what internationalization might mean and provides an understanding of internationalization in the context of Chinese non-government universities. Under the internationalization framework in Western academic literature, this study investigates the practice from a case study university in China. Data were collected through semistructured interviews along with document analysis. Participants indicated that internationalization is learning, integrating initiatives for mutual benefit and can be an accelerator for overall development of universities. Furthermore, the government and society need to work together to create a more equitable government policy that positively encourages China’s non-government Higher Education institutions to bolster internationalization.Keywords: China, non-government institutions, internationalization
Highlights
China undertook economic reform and issued the first opening-up policy in 1978
Since the New Law has been drafted for four years, there has been neither supporting strategies nor implementation approaches in most provinces in China
The Brief Profile of the Case Study University Founded in 1984 in Beijing, NGU is the first new-type of Non-profit university in the publicowned and non-governmental system
Summary
China undertook economic reform and issued the first opening-up policy in 1978. At the same time, China started to open the Higher Education (HE) system to the world. As a product of the Chinese Opening-up policy and HE structural reform, Chinese Nongovernment HE Institutions (NgHEIs) re-emerged in the early 1980s and have become one of the important components of Chinese HE. Non-government universities face self-development and identity problems as graduate students are not as highly regarded as students from government universities and may have reduced opportunities. These challenges create great uncertainty and there is an urgent need to think carefully about the future directions and approaches that nongovernment universities might take to respond. The purpose of this research is to explore what internationalisation might mean and provide an understanding of internationalisation in the context of Chinese NgHEIs to potentially inform future policy development. This study can inform Western scholars who wish to understand the internationalisation practice in the Chinese social context and to Western HE institutions who encounter similar challenges
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