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2009 International Seminar of Higher
Educational Finance Held at PKU
PKU NEWS 2009--11—16
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Peking University, Nov. 16, 2009:―2009 International Seminar of Higher Educational
Finance‖ & workshop of ―Higher Education under Global Knowledge Economy‖
project sponsored by CIEFR (China Institute for Educational Finance Research,
Peking University) was held on Nov.7 – 8. This is the third round workshop of the
project ―Higher Education under Global Knowledge Economy‖. Previous 2 rounds of
the workshop were held in India and Russia after the project started on Jan. 2008.
Prof. Min Weifang, vice president of PKU, addressed the meeting. Scholars including
Mr. Bernard Hugonnier, Deputy Director of the Directorate for Education in the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Dr. Kin Bing Wu,
Chief education specialist of the World Bank‘s Department of Human Development
of East Asia and Pacific Region, Prof. Tan Songhua from National Center For
Education Development Research (NCEDR) and Mr. Han Min, deputy director of
NCEDR, Prof. Yuan Liansheng from School of Economics and Business
Administration of Beijing Normal University, Prof. Yang Dongping from Education
Science Institute of Beijing Institute of Technology, and Prof. Yan Fengqiao, Deputy
Director of Education Institute of Peking University, made comments to the
speeches.
The seminar mainly focused on the following three topics about the higher education
in BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China): fairness and efficiency, organizational
pattern and financial status, and opportunities and challenges facing science and
engineering program.
Prof. Wang Rong briefly introduced the main content of the 7 reports submitted by
Chinese research group, pointing out several notable trends. The first one is that the
top universities in China are sliding down while the second level universities are
going up. For example, universities affiliated to Ministry of Education (MOE) opened
60 new independent institutes, in which the number of students is about 22% of the
total number of the undergraduate students in these universities. From 2003 to 2006,
the proportion of the number of graduates for master program is decreased from
64% to 55% in the universities affiliated to MOE. The second trend is that new
requirements emerged after the popularization of the higher education. According to
a survey among students from graduating class of high schools, 22% of the students
whose scores reached the line of second level universities in the National College
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