"Dancing in a cage": Changing autonomy in Chinese higher education

Higher Education

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 575-592

  Yang, Rui ^a   Vidovich, Lesley ^b   Currie, Jan ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autonomy; China; Devolution; Globalisation; Governance; Higher education; Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548449363     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-006-9009-5     Document Type: Article

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