THE MASSIFICATION PROCESS IN CHINESE HIGHER EDUCATION

This paper demonstrates the massification process in higher education using as reference China, which reached in a few years the largest university system in the world. To do this, we present in the theoretical reference the Government intervention and its economic responsibilities, the main challenges of global higher education and the effects of globalization on this level of education. As regards the methodology, this study is designed on the principles of explanatory research, with qualitative approach. Data were collected through documentary and bibliographic research, and subsequently analyzed and interpreted to record the findings that were correlated with other data collected. This research shows at its end how was the expansion of Chinese higher education, which was a elite system and became a mass system, becoming a reference for other nations that also seek to expand this educational level

Is There an Emerging Chinese Model of the University?

The new Chinese model of the university sees the university as the state’s educational and research arm for national development. The model, which is increasing in global influence, has both flaws and advantages for China and the world.York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit provides services and funding for faculty, graduate students, and community organizations seeking to maximize the impact of academic research and expertise on public policy, social programming, and professional practice. It is supported by SSHRC and CIHR grants, and by the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation. This summary was prepared by Eric Ping Hung Li. [email protected] www.researchimpact.c

Liberal arts education in the universities of Greater China: historical legacy, current models, and future prospects

Liberal arts education is usually regarded as a legacy from the Greek and Roman classics, adapted in American universities, with little awareness of its deep roots in Confucian heritage education. In this paper, we begin with an introduction to the liberal arts in Chinese Christian universities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries where Chinese classical scholars cooperated with North American missionaries in creating campuses characterised by a rich flow of ideas and architectural patterns rooted in China’s traditions. Although these Christian universities were closed more than seventy years ago, their influence and legacy are still having an impact on higher education in China and beyond. Some institutions carried on their legacy and have developed into universities with strong liberal arts traditions. Following this thread, the paper presents three current models of liberal arts education in universities in Greater China (Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China), showing how each has built on this inheritance in a distinctive Chinese context. In the final section of the paper, we discuss the possibility of reimagining Confucian humanism through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This in turn serves to rephrase the Confucian canon in a universal language and explore its contribution to whole person development for current and future social challenges, which is the core value of liberal arts education in Chinese contexts

Knowledge-Enhanced Hierarchical Information Correlation Learning for Multi-Modal Rumor Detection

The explosive growth of rumors with text and images on social media platforms has drawn great attention. Existing studies have made significant contributions to cross-modal information interaction and fusion, but they fail to fully explore hierarchical and complex semantic correlation across different modality content, severely limiting their performance on detecting multi-modal rumor. In this work, we propose a novel knowledge-enhanced hierarchical information correlation learning approach (KhiCL) for multi-modal rumor detection by jointly modeling the basic semantic correlation and high-order knowledge-enhanced entity correlation. Specifically, KhiCL exploits cross-modal joint dictionary to transfer the heterogeneous unimodality features into the common feature space and captures the basic cross-modal semantic consistency and inconsistency by a cross-modal fusion layer. Moreover, considering the description of multi-modal content is narrated around entities, KhiCL extracts visual and textual entities from images and text, and designs a knowledge relevance reasoning strategy to find the shortest semantic relevant path between each pair of entities in external knowledge graph, and absorbs all complementary contextual knowledge of other connected entities in this path for learning knowledge-enhanced entity representations. Furthermore, KhiCL utilizes a signed attention mechanism to model the knowledge-enhanced entity consistency and inconsistency of intra-modality and inter-modality entity pairs by measuring their corresponding semantic relevant distance. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method

Longitudinal compression of macro relativistic electron beam

We presented a novel concept of longitudinal bunch train compression capable of manipulating relativistic electron beam in range of hundreds of meters. This concept has the potential to compress the electron beam with a high ratio and raise its power to an ultrahigh level. The method utilizes the spiral motion of electrons in a uniform magnetic field to fold hundreds-of-meters-long trajectories into a compact set-up. The interval between bunches can be adjusted by modulating their sprial movement. The method is explored both analytically and numerically. Compared to set-up of similar size, such as chicane, this method can compress bunches at distinct larger scales and higher intensities, opening up new possibilities for generating beam with ultra-large energy storage.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure

Similar material and numerical simulation of strata movement laws with long wall fully mechanized gangue backfilling

AbstractThis paper studies on strata and surface movement laws with long wall fully mechanized gangue backfilling technology by similar material simulation and numerical simulation method. The results indicate that 1) the overlying strata under the situation of mining with long wall fully mechanized gangue backfilling mainly shows a slow bending and subsidence, characterized by bending, fracturing, and bed separating, while the overlying strata develops fractured zone and bending zone only; and 2) if the compression rate of backfill is about 30%, the surface subsidence coefficient is around 0.22. In addition, this paper points out that improving the filling rate of gangue backfilling in goaf and the initial density of filling body are the main technological way to enhance the controlling effect of strata movement. Based on this point of view, four technical measures are proposed at the end

HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS AND THE CHARGING OF TUITION FEES: PERSPECTIVES AND PERCEPTIONS IN BRAZIL, CANADA AND CHINA

This study aims to understand the perceptions of the charging of tuition fees in Canada and China and the perspectives of this practice in Brazil, which is a country where society requires access to quality higher education, but which faces large budgetary constraints on its public funding. To understand these questions, a qualitative exploratory multi-case study was conducted with government officials, specialists in higher education, and student leadership from all three countries, from 13 semi-structured interviews and 27 responses to an unstructured questionnaire, in order to clarify a subject still paradigmatic in the scope of Brazilian public higher education. In conclusion to this analysis, and considering the benefits provided by the Canadian and Chinese participants, it is suggested to Brazil to carry out a reflection on this subject. This reflection is necessary, especially if the need to increase the financial support to these institutions is proven and this cannot be done because of the financial availability. This initiative would aim to boost public higher education institutions through greater financial availability and democratize access and permanence, as it would have more resources to invest in assisting students from underrepresented groups participating in the system

Original experimental platform system and application of underground coal mine reservoirs

Coal is the main energy source in China, and the western region in China is the main coal production area. The protection and utilization of coal mine water is the major technical challenge in the coal mining. The coal green mining research team of China Energy Group has pioneered the technology of underground coal mine reservoirs, which has been widely implemented in the Shendong mining area in Western China, providing over 95% of water needed for mining and ensuring the sustainable development of the mining area. To further enrich and improve the theoretical and technical system of underground coal mine reservoirs, this technology has been promoted and applied under different geological and working conditions in the western coal mining areas to ensure national energy security and water resources protection. The research team has built the original technology experimental platform system for coal mine underground reservoirs, including the comprehensive intelligent experimental platform for underground water transport and protection, the physical modelling platform for coal mine underground reservoirs under multiple coal seams, the dam structure experimental platform for coal mine underground reservoirs, the simulation experimental platform for deep well construction in western areas, the water-rock coupling mechanism experimental platform for underground water reservoirs, the integrated water treatment process experimental platform, and the impact experimental platforms for coal mine underground reservoirs, etc. On these platforms, the researches can be carried out consisting of the transport law of underground water, the optimization of dam structure parameters, the safety and stability of reservoirs, water-rock coupling mechanism, the optimization of mine water treatment, and the impact of caving rock mass on the dam structure under different coal seam occurrence conditions in the western mining areas of China. These platform systems provide a theoretical support and technical verification for the construction, operation, and safety of coal mine underground reservoirs. By utilizing these experimental platforms, various experimental research studies have been conducted, including the stability and seepage of coal mine underground reservoirs under multiple coal seams, the structural safety of coal mine underground reservoirs dam, and the water-rock coupling mechanism of coal mine underground reservoirs. These research results have been applied in actual engineering practice to ensure the safe and stable operation of coal mine underground reservoirs