Creating world-class universities in China: strategies and impacts at a renowned research university

Song, Jia

doi:10.1007/s10734-017-0167-4

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“…(c) China is a major site of English language teaching activity (Borg & Liu, 2013), and insights generated in this context can be of broad relevance to tertiary teachers of the phenomenally large population of English language learners around the world. In light of many universities' aspirations to enter the world-wide university hierarchy (Lynch, 2015;Song, 2018;Yang & Welch, 2012), this line of research can also provide universities or government with practical implications for facilitating university academics' professional development.…”

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Understanding TEFL Academics’ Research Motivation and Its Relations With Research Productivity

Peng

Gao

2019

Sage Open

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Motivation is considered an important impetus driving and sustaining individuals’ efforts to fulfill their goals. Against the backdrop that university academics worldwide are increasingly expected to produce research output in prestigious journals for both individual and institutional development, it is necessary to understand academics’ research motivation and its relations with research productivity in international and local journals. This study, being descriptive and explanatory in nature, surveyed 309 academics who taught English as a foreign language (TEFL) in China. Results showed that the participants exhibited stronger extrinsic motivation, in the form of external and identified regulations, than intrinsic motivation. However, these two subtypes of extrinsic motivation were significantly negatively associated with academic publishing, whereas intrinsic motivation was the significant positive factor associated with the participants’ publication in international journals. These findings remind both academics and educational managers of the importance of enhancing intrinsic motivation and refining contextual support in improving academics’ research productivity.

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confidence: 99%

Understanding TEFL Academics’ Research Motivation and Its Relations With Research Productivity

Peng

Gao

2019

Sage Open

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Section: China's Double First-class University Strategy: 双一流mentioning

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“…Song (2017) discusses the effects of ongoing reforms on elite universities, commenting that the humanities in this case study is at a disadvantage and that the policy of recruiting returnees and of admitting international students has caused domestic tensions about educational quality and equality. Song (2017) comments that matching features of 'World-Class' and 'Chinese Characteristics' is not easily achieved. This research is also supported by evidence from Kim, Song, Liu, Liu, and Brimm (2018) over faculty's perceptions concerning the privileging of the global in higher education over the national and the local leading to some 'gaps' between administration and faculty.…”

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China’s double first-class university strategy: 双一流

Peters

Besley

2018

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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“…The policy of recruiting returnees (graduates returning from study abroad) to lecturer positions is partly responsible for the further decline in students' confidence in domestic universities and the policy of admitting international students has triggered domestic tensions on the issue of educational quality and equality (Song, 2017). The struggle of negotiating managerial objectives such internationalisation and becoming a World Class university while remaining a massive domestic university has proven to be a challenge (Song, 2017). We may say, not just for the Chinese universities, but for UBB Cluj-Napoca as well: the university aims to become an important international researchoriented university, and at the same time to remain the most important regional university in Transylvania.…”

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Pull Factors Attracting Romanian Students to Babeș-Bolyai University

Gábora¹,

Mălăescu²,

Pavlenko³

2018

JRHE

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Student recruitment and the geographic area from where a university is recruiting its students play a key part in institutional development and in the position a university holds in national and international rankings. Therefore, successful universities assign important resources to attracting students to the educational programmes they offer. The location of the university also plays an important role in student motivation when choosing an educational offer. In this article, we focus on the main pull factors that attract students to Babeș-Bolyai University of ClujNapoca, we analyze how the city and the university's pull factors have changed in the past years, assuming that these changes, namely the institution's and the city's increasing attractiveness, had an influence on the recruitment area of students. Our hypothesis is that the increasing attractiveness leads to more students coming from a national recruitment area, instead of local and regional areas, where the main base of students of the institution used to be in the past. In the second part of this article we present recruitment data for the past five years, focusing on the recruitment area and the county of origin of the students, in order to confirm our hypothesis.

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Creating world-class universities in China: strategies and impacts at a renowned research university

Cited by 81 publications

References 23 publications

Understanding TEFL Academics’ Research Motivation and Its Relations With Research Productivity

Understanding TEFL Academics’ Research Motivation and Its Relations With Research Productivity

China’s double first-class university strategy: 双一流

Pull Factors Attracting Romanian Students to Babeș-Bolyai University

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