Comparison of the Western concept of quality of higher education.doc

Comparison of the Western concept of quality of higher education [Abstract] Comparison of the Western concept of quality of higher education found that: the quality of higher education in the West different understanding not only reflect the different stages of development of higher education, but also reflects the impact of changes in the strength of quality of higher education. China’s higher education development is by a whole to different classes, group differentiation stage, while the University of Western countries, the individual became their own quality standards setters; China currently affecting the quality of higher education is still the most powerful country (government), However, the voices of students and the market has emerged, while the Western countries and even students of different stakeholders in the West the individual quality of higher education have an impact. [Keywords:] Higher quality concept; the nature of Higher Education Abstract: This essay compares the different quality views of higher education between China and the West, and concludes that: First, the different quality views of higher education reflect the different developing stage of higher education; Second, the force influencing higher education is changing both in China and the West. Instead of single force or local force in the past centuries, the west higher education is in a multi-force time. While in China, though the government is still the strongest one, students and market are try to make influence on the quality of higher education. Keywords:: quality views of higher education; essence of higher education The understanding of the quality of higher education with the understanding of the nature of higher education is the same vein: the nature of higher education refers to the purpose of the pursuit of higher learning, but the quality is the extent to achieve this purpose, different concept of the quality of higher education is reflected in people’s