文档介绍：China’s higher education system anized by the government and its admissions process has been centrally operated. During the past decade, attitudes to higher education have changed, with people placing greater emphasis on attending college or university.
Many people believe that higher education is indispensable for fast-tracking their career development and securing petitive salary. And as demand for higher education increases, the number of privately-run colleges in the country has snowballed. Now a growing number of adult education institutes have also begun to offer further education to high school graduates.
College enrollment expansion started in 1999. Before the expansion, only a small proportion of people between the ages of 18 and 22 could attend college. In 1998, fewer than 10 percent of students in this age category were accepted into further education.
“The enrollment rate for schools of higher learning now exceeds 13 per cent. The enrollment expansion has helped solved the problem of the relatively small-scale higher educational sector.”
To provide satisfactory study and living conditions for enlarged numbers of students, colleges have reformed their general service departments.
As government-run colleges expand, many private schools have also grown into large-scale higher learning institutions. There are now almost 1000 public universities in the country,