Abstract
China has a long history of education and its educational administration system can be traced back to more than 2,000 years ago. This article focuses on the development of the educational administration system in China through a series of laws, regulations and policies, arguing that China’s current educational administration system-the State Council and local governments at various levels are responsible to guide and administer educational work under the principles of administration by different levels and of a division of responsibilities needs to be further extended and reformed to address the new challenges and problems in the era of marketization and internationalization.
Highlights
China’s educational administration system is closely related to the history of the centralized culture since the Qin Dynasty (221 BC)
This paper examines research questions such as what is the basic structure of educational administration system in China? How have China’s educational administration system changed since the founding of new China? How are different educational administrative levels interrelated and how is the power distributed? In order to address these questions and have a thorough understanding of educational administration system in China, we employ a historical approach comprising four stages including the completion of socialist restructuring, the Cultural Revolution, the socialist planned economy and the socialist market economy
Directives and policies promulgated by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the State Council of China, this paper traces the development course of compulsory education, senior high school education and higher education administration system of China, summarizes the achievements and existing problems in the system of educational administration at the present stage from a macro level and makes an analysis regarding to its reform direction in the future
Summary
China’s educational administration system is closely related to the history of the centralized culture since the Qin Dynasty (221 BC). Some missionaries in China spared no effort to serve as pioneers of disseminating knowledge of the western educational system, which had significant impact on China’s education. Driven by both internal and external factors, Chinese society had gradually reinforced its cognition and acceptance of the modern educational system, brewing the birth of educational administration system at the beginning of the century. By borrowing Japan’s educational system, China gradually established a complete system of educational administration in modern times. Educational administration system has evolved with the development of society, politics and economy, and the educational administration system with significant Chinese characteristics has been formed
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