On Quality Assurance Issues of Sino-foreign Cooper...

On Quality Assurance Issues of Sino-foreign Cooperation in Operating Schools

With the rapid development of Sino-foreign cooperative education programs，issues which negatively affected the quality of these programs have been receiving more and more attentions.In fact，the quality control issue in such programs has gradually emerged to be a new critical field in quality supervision of cross-border education.Questions such as how quality of Sino-foreign cooperative education programs should be defined，what the focuses should be，what some of the key influencing factors are and how to enhance their quality，etc.all deserve careful and thorough investigations and explorations.The apparent effective solution to the practical education control issues of these international education programs is to build up a complete education quality control system based on active explorations and solid studies.

With the increasingly deepening penetration of economic globalization and the ever accelerating speed of internationalization in higher education，various forms of crossborder education have been gaining a profoundly fast growth，among which the Sino-foreign cooperation in operating schools has achieved an extra rapid development.Why does China need Sino-foreign cooperation in operating schools？Beyond the economic benefits and market mechanisms that it may bring，the critical influences that such programs have on higher education development exemplify its advantages and prosperity.First of all，international education programs introduce high quality resources crossing the border.Education quality is enhanced through learning from the partners，joining cooperative forces and extracting advantages from both sides.Secondly，through such cooperative programs，China's education will gradually emerge into the vision of relevant practitioners and researchers around the world.China's education goes outside the country，and the consequence is that its voice gets heard and its image becomes vivid.This will promote the development of China's study abroad programs and accelerate the speed of internationalization of China's education.Meanwhile，through participating foreign education systems and education processes，China is becoming to know various effective pedagogies such as interactive teaching and heuristic teaching.Moreover，the scope of research and disciplines is expanded and the rate of acknowledgement and acceptance of degrees achieved through Sino-foreign joint education programs is enhanced.