By . Fewer sixth-form students want to attend a university near their home despite tuition fees rising to £9,000 a year, a new survey says.
Only around one in 20 prospective students in state and independent schools say they want to study in their home area, according to a poll of more than 17,000 sixth-form students by career guidance firm Cambridge Occupational Analysts. Just 7 per cent of would-be students in the UK who responded to the survey say they prefer to remain near their home, compared with 9 per cent in 2011 and 15 per cent in 2004. Read more...
SEEKING A ROADMAP TO BECOMING WORLD CLASS: Strategic Planning at Peking University
By Xie Guangkuan. Strategic planning plays an important but sometimes controversial role in higher education. This paper examines how strategic planning works in Chinese universities, using Peking University as a case study. This essay discusses the rationale for why Peking University (PKU) decided to pursue status as a world-class university along with objectives and value of its various strategic plans beginning in the 1990s. These plans have had four main roles at Peking University: as a means to periodically alter the development path or "roadmap" of the university; as a method to gain or "accelerate resources" largely from government; as a way to communicate with the business community, alumni and other stakeholders regarding the aspirations and needs of the university; and as a tool to engage central government leaders in the future of the university.
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