Massification, bureaucratization and questing for "world-class" status: Higher education in China since the mid-1990s

International Journal of Educational Management

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 547-564

  Ngok, Kinglun ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Central government; China; Higher education; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849126329     PISSN: 0951354X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513540810895453     Document Type: Article

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