Internationalization Of Higher Education In China

Internationalization is the main tendency of higher education of the whole world in the 21st century. It receives great recognition of various countries all over the world. Along with the gradual expansion of China's reform and opening up policy and the rapid advancement of the social development, higher education and its internationalization are day by day becoming an important issue which needs to be solved urgently. This paper, starting from the discussion of the definition and connotation of higher education's internationalization, analyzes the present situation and the problems of higher education's internationalization in China, and accordingly proposes the countermeasures to speed up higher education's internationalization in our country. This paper consists of three parts.Part One first discusses the definition and the connotation of higher education's internationalization, then analyzes the basic factors of higher education's internationalization in terms of four aspects, that is, educational idea, curriculum, personnel exchanges and academic exchanges, then introduces three models of higher education's internationalization, including introversion, extroversion and integration, and finally points out three new tendencies of higher education's internationalization, i.e. trade-oriented development, change of the leading participants of exchanges, and enrichment of the content of exchanges.Part Two, focusing on higher education's internationalization in China, first reviews the history of international exchange and cooperation of China's education, then analyzes the present situation of higher education's internationalization in China from four aspects, that is, personnel exchanges, curriculum, international conference and cooperation in running schools, and finally points out the problems in the process of higher education's internationalization in China, such as insufficient understanding of internationalization, unbalanced development of internationalization and asymmetrical exchanges between China and other countries and so on.Part Three emphasizes that internationalization is an inevitable trend in the development of higher education in China, because it is the common need of economic globalization, national interests and the self-development of institutions of higher education, but on the other hand, the internationalization is by no means so perfect, and in the advancement of higher education's internationalization in China we should stand on such essential principles as the combination of internationalization and nationalization, the combination of inviting foreign experts and studying abroad, the combination of quantity and quality and so on. In the end this paper proposes several countermeasures of promoting higher education's internationalization in China.At present, the issue of higher education's internationalization in China has drawn much attention of many experts and scholars, but generally speaking, leaders and researchers of many institutions of higher learning either know this issue not clearly, or pay insufficient attention to it, which ultimately affects the smooth advancement of higher education's internationalization in China. In view of this, the paper looks into many aspects of higher education's internationalization. The originality of the paper is that it systematically analyzes the problems of higher education's internationalization in China and accordingly proposes the strategies to solve the problems. It is certain that this will theoretically enhance people's understanding of this issue and let them play more active role in the practice of higher education's internationalization, thus greatly promoting the all-round development of higher education and cultivating more talented people for the modernization of our country.