Chinese Private Higher Education Under Pressure

Quality, Policy, and Demographic Decline

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  • Cassidy Gong University of Toronto

Keywords:

East Asia & Pacific, Private Higher Education, China

Abstract

Situated at the bottom of the echelon in the highly stratified Chinese higher education system, private higher education (PHE) faces existing challenges while being confronted with new uncertainties that threaten its survival. This article discusses the persistent quality improvement challenge and an increasingly volatile policy environment that Chinese PHE faces.

Author Biography

Cassidy Gong, University of Toronto

Cassidy Gong is course instructor and research associate at the Centre for Research on International and Canadian Higher Education (CIHE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. E-mail: cassidy.gong@mail.utoronto.ca.

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Published

2025-08-05

How to Cite

Gong, C. (2025). Chinese Private Higher Education Under Pressure: Quality, Policy, and Demographic Decline. International Higher Education, (122), 17–18. Retrieved from https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ihe/article/view/20179

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No. 122 (2025): Spring Issue

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