Interviews with Presidents of Chinese Universities

Author: Education Ministry of Guangming Daily
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Publish Date: 1998-11-01
Features: The interview records in this book are of high quality, with topics mostly being the hot and difficult issues in China's higher education in the past one or two years. This is another feature of the book. With the deepening of reforms, new situations and problems have emerged in various aspects of education, such as guiding principles, development strategies, institutional mechanisms, teaching materials, and management models. Our presidents have not shied away from the challenges. Adhering to the principles of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, they have conducted in-depth reflections and analyses, from practice to theory, from micro to macro, and carried out numerous valuable explorations and practices. Many of the reform ideas and suggestions they have proposed, the reform processes and experiences they have introduced, as well as their perspectives on the future trends and directions of education in the 21st century, the preparations they have made and the countermeasures they have taken—all of these are believed to provide inspiration for university presidents across the country. Some readers have said that this is not only an interview with university presidents but also a forum for university presidents. It is not a forum at a conference but rather one in newspapers and books. The interview records in this book are of high quality, with topics mostly being the hot and difficult issues in China's higher education in the past one or two years. This is another feature of the book. With the deepening of reforms, new situations and problems have emerged in various aspects of education, such as guiding principles, development strategies, institutional mechanisms, teaching materials, and management models. Our presidents have not shied away from the challenges. Adhering to the principles of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, they have conducted in-depth reflections and analyses, from practice to theory, from micro to macro, and carried out numerous valuable explorations and practices. Many of the reform ideas and suggestions they have proposed, the reform processes and experiences they have introduced, as well as their perspectives on the future trends and directions of education in the 21st century, the preparations they have made and the countermeasures they have taken—all of these are believed to provide inspiration for university presidents across the country. Some readers have said that this is not only an interview with university presidents but also a forum for university presidents. It is not a forum at a conference but rather one in newspapers and books.