Recent Personnel Reforms of Public Universities in China and in Italy: A Comparison

Autor/in	Ha, Sha
Titel	Recent Personnel Reforms of Public Universities in China and in Italy: A Comparison
Quelle	In: International Journal of Higher Education, 7 (2018) 1, S.87-97 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1927-6044
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; State Universities; Comparative Education; Standards; Excellence in Education; Foreign Countries; Institutional Autonomy; Governance; Political Power; Case Studies; Financial Support; Technological Advancement; Brain Drain; Educational Finance; Science Education; Technology Education; Humanities; Economic Climate; Personnel Policy; Italy; China (Guangzhou) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Staatliche Universität; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Standard; Lernerfolg; Ausland; Institutionelle Autonomie; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Politische Macht; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Finanzielle Förderung; Technological development; Technologische Entwicklung; Bildungsfonds; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Technisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Wirtschaftslage; Personalpolitik; Italien
Abstract	Purpose of the present research is an investigation of the most recent personnel reforms of higher education institutions in China and in Italy. A one-to-one comparison between the two realities would have been unrealistic, given the enormous differences between the two Countries in size and historical development. We focused our analysis on some basic issues common to both higher education institutions, such as the degree of the academic autonomy from the political power in the academic governance and the quality of the knowledge production and transfer to the society. The Sun Yat-Sen and the Guangzhou Universities in the Guangdong Province of China, and the Universities of Padua and Ca' Foscari in the Venetian Region of Italy, have been chosen as case studies. In China the personnel reforms introduced by the central government in the period 1995-2014, were accompanied by a relevant financial support by the central and regional authorities, which helped the national universities to attain high standards of excellence in the technological domain. Those remarkable financial investments by the central and regional authorities are paying off, contributing to the technological advancement of the Country. As for the Italian public universities, a very innovative reform law was introduced by the "Ministry of Education, University and Research" in December 2010, which granted a high level of governance autonomy to those institutions. Unfortunately, the great financial crisis that hit the Country in the same period of time caused a strong reduction of the public funds to universities and a consequent brain drain of young post graduates toward Northern Europe and North America. In spite of this temporary shortage of funds, Italian public universities have maintained their high level of excellence in science, technology and humanities, as evidenced by the increasing number of their bilateral cooperation agreements, concerning student mobility and joint research activities with foreign universities all over the world, China included. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01