Shanghai College Professors Assess Trends and Situations in Education: Fudan University Conducts a Sample Survey on How Education Can Extricate Itself from Its Present Dilemma
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Chinese Education
- Vol. 23 (2) , 22-30
- https://doi.org/10.2753/ced1061-1932230222
Abstract
How can China's educational enterprise extricate itself from the quandary it currently faces? And how may it play its deserved role in the process of the revitalization and resurgence of the nation and the reform of the society? This not only is a major topic for discussion at the National People's Congress and the Political Consultative Conference, both of which have recently held sessions, but it is also a topic that has elicited society's general attention as well as many rounds of discussions in various circles. At a time when China's educational enterprise is more and more often connected, in people's minds and in their conversations, with such terms as "crisis," "on the skids," "decline," "downslope," "recession," and so on, what, one might ask, is the assessment made about the current trend in education by the professors, themselves the backbone of and the authorities in China's educational circles? Shortly after the publication of Deng Xiaoping's conversation with the President of Uganda on the question of education, Fudan University in Shanghai (more specifically, its "Culture and Communications Research Center") conducted a survey among professors and associate professors in colleges and universities in the Shanghai region on their assessment of the current conditions and trends in education. From a preliminary statistical reading of the 721 sets of valid returns of the questionnaires (the return rate was 60.08 percent), a profound dissatisfaction was apparent among college and university professors from the Shanghai area toward current conditions in education, as well as a deep concern for the prospects of future educational development in China.Keywords
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