The Ministry of Education of China terminated more than 200 Chinese-foreign partnership programs because it affects the quality of education.
According to the ministry, recently there is a significant development between Chinese and foreign cooperation in terms of academic administration. The development affects the promotion of reforms in the education’s system. This makes the training advanced and serves major state strategies. “In turn continuously increasing social approval for an international influence of such cooperation," the ministry said.
Consequently, this move is to enhance the Chinese-foreign cooperation when it comes to academic administration. The ministry said that such decision was made to "replace the old with the new, optimized, and upgraded."
The affected programs include various fields such as computer science, education, business, health-care and medical fields and engineering. Most of the partner universities are based in the U.S. Also, there are terminated cooperative programs involving universities from Australia, UK, and Russia.
Unfortunately, while there is a fast development, the problems are also coming up in some institutions as well as projects. Some of the issues are lack of “ introduction of excellent educational resources” and poor quality of instructions. Not to mention low-quality content-based development execution and weak capabilities in academic departments.
“The problems have led to low student satisfaction and poor attractiveness of programs, making it difficult for the academic administration to continue," the ministry posted on its website.
Chinese higher education expert Mike Gow also pointed out that the terminated China-foreign cooperative programs are those cited by the MOE (2006-2018) for cumulative closures.
Gow said that ever since 2007 the MOE already showed its concern in terms of aggressive market quality of many activities of universities from different nations in the country. In fact, there were about twenty-five programs that were being closed from the year 2006 to 2015; and there were about 104 programs that were terminated from the year 2016 to 2018. The cause of dismissal is due to poor quality planning.
“Many were never have become operational. Also, the majority were established 2001-2004," he even added.
