Comparative Research into Chinese Conventional and Television‐based Higher Education

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsYawan LiIn this article Yawan Li, Head of the Foreign Affairs Office in the China Central Radio and Television University (CCRTVU), and Jikun Chen, Director of the Information Department at the Educational Administration Centre of the CCRTVU, report on some of the findings of a joint Sino‐Japanese study comparing conventional and television‐based higher education in China. They draw on the preliminary findings of the Chinese members of this bilateral research project to provide a concise introduction to the background, methodology, and some of the findings of the study including among other issues, questions of student satisfaction and student expectation of higher education, relative to the resourcing of the sampled conventional and radio and television universities in China. The article also reports on a supplementary survey into the experience of radio and television University students in rural areas