The biggest university system in the world is Chinese
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The president of Yale is describing the expansion of the Chinese University System as the fastest growth in education in human history. In 1998, there were only about a million students in China. Figures last month from China’s education ministry reported more than 34 million graduates in the past four years. By 2020 there will be 35.5 million students enrolled. The biggest university system in the world.
Linked to this growth in education is the globalization of western universities. There are more universities operating in other countries, recruiting students from overseas, setting up partnerships, providing online degrees and teaching in other languages than ever before.
Chinese students are taking degrees taught in English in Finnish universities; the Sorbonne (Paris, France) is awarding French degrees in Abu Dhabi; US universities are opening in China and South Korean universities are switching teaching to English so they can compete with everyone else.
It’s not just western universities looking for new markets. Many countries in the Middle East and Asia are deliberately seeking overseas universities, as a way of fast-forwarding a research base. In Qatar, the purpose-built Education City now has branches of eight overseas universities, with more to follow. Shanghai is set to be another magnet for international campuses.
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in the 1960s South Korea had a similar national wealth to Afghanistan. Now it tops international education league tables and has some of the highest-rated universities in the world.
The Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea was only founded in 1986 – and is now in the top 30 of the Times Higher global league table, elbowing past many ancient and venerable institutions.
It also wants to compete on an international stage so the university has decided that all its graduate programs should be taught in English rather than Korean.
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well we do have nukes to realign things you know….
One big bang and it’s the west again….er….unless they do it first….;-)
Perhaps there is a chance they will send our jobs back when they are too educated to do them.
The way things are going their minimum wage jobs could be very welcome here.