A Review Of Ideas About Chinese Higher Educational Development Since Reform And Opening To Outside World

Idea of higher educational development is a product of practice, while guiding the development of higher education. Formation of contemporary higher educational development idea in China is closely related to the whole world's economic and cultural development, and draw inspiration from the world's higher educational development idea. Analysing the stages and ideas of Chinese higher educational development can help us comprehend these ideas deeply, put these ideas into practice and promote Chinese higher educational sustained and sound development.We can divide the development of higher education in our country into the following four stages: Resuming development stage (1978-1982), steady development stage (1983-1991), rapid development stage (1992-1998), accelerated development stage (1999-2005). On the whole, the ideas of our country's higher educational development has gone through a process like this: placing an equal stress on both connotation and denotation→changing denotative development idea to rectify both connotation and denotation→connotative development idea→denotative development idea . Why do these ideas change like this? Both our country's reality and our ideas cause the change. Firstly, the tendency of world's higher educational development is changing from denotative development to connotative development. Secondly, higher education in our country has its special background. Thirdly, the idea influences higher educational development idea deeply.In the future, we should persist in connotative development idea. We should lay stress on the quantity's growth, uphold to base higher educational development on benefit, avouch for higher educational quality and optimize the higher educational structure. Ideas of higher educational development guide higher educational development, so if we want to promote higher education's new development, we should innovate upon the idea of higher educational development first. The key for changing idea of higher educational development is to change our ideas.