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Entrance Exam decided to quit and prepared for the next try while only 52% of the
students whose score reached score line of third level universities in the National
College Entrance Exam decided to enter college. She explained the trends through
new theories about human capital.
Prof. Martin Carnoy analyzed the different characteristics on the high education
expansion in BRIC and their social, political and economic backgrounds. He thinks
that governments of China and Russia mainly focused on building up ―the world top
class universities‖ while governments of Brazil and India paid attention to the quality
of their top universities. The funds of public universities in Brazil come mostly from
the public finance. The proportion of tuition fee in the funding of Chinese universities
increased constantly. Universities in Russia started accepting students at their own
expense. Government of India permitted the rapid expansion of the private
universities. He pointed out that the purpose of this international project is to reveal
the common patterns and different trends in higher education in these countries and
to find the causes in the different trends in BRIC. In BRIC, higher education used to
be supported by public finance, and it seemed to be a type of pure public commodity.
However, BRIC are designing financial system for sharing the costs. The expansion
of college admission guided by this financial system is different from the expansion
aiming at promoting the productivity and fairness, just as the college expansion in the
US, Japan, and Europe during the late 20‘s century.
Prof. Isak Froumin and Prof. Jandhyala Tilak gave presentations on higher education
of engineering in Russia and India respectively. Researchers from CIEFR reported
their research about choosing a university, opportunities for university, and costs and
structure .of universities,
Background:
―Higher Education under Global Knowledge Economy‖ is a large international
cooperation project. This project was started and organized by Prof. Martin Carnoy
from Education Institute of Stanford University. The kernel members of this project
are Prof. Isak Froumin from the higher economic institute of the National University
of Russia, Jandhyala Tilak from National University of Educational Planning and
Administration of India, and Prof. Wang Rong from CIEFR (China Institute for
Educational Finance Research, Peking University).
As the four developing countries with the most population in the world, BRIC (Brazil,
Russia, India, and China) may become the most important powers in the world
economy in the next 40 years. There are many factors during the transfer from the
powerful economic entity based on the large population and cheap labor force or
natural resources to the developed economy based on the knowledge industry and
service industry. One of these factors is the development of the national education
system, especially higher education system. The purpose of this project is to find the
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