The Research On Southwest China-ASEAN Higher Education Cooperation

The establishment of China-ASEAN Free Trade Area(CAFTA) makes Southwest China change from China's Reform and Opening up outlying area to its forward position.Southwest China takes advantage of its localization and close cultural ties to ASEAN nations,starts engaging in higher education cooperation with ASEAN.The goal of the cooperation is to train CAFTA personnel and serve the development of this FTA.This thesis focuses on the Southwest China-ASEAN higher education cooperation,explores its cause,basis,characteristics and the problems existing in the cooperation process,the the author puts forward some strategies and suggestions on strengthening the cooperation.To understand the problems existing in the cooperation process,a series of investigation on how the cooperative projects are carried out must be done.The author has interviewed some leaders,teachers,Chinese and foreign students of Chongqing ChangJiang Normal University,Guangxi University for Nationalities,Guangxi Normal University's cooperative projects.The author tries to collect some information on the model of the project's running and management,then explores the problems and reasons.This thesis is just the first fruit of the study.This thesis consists of four parts.Part One,the author analyzes what the CAFTA has brought to the weak foundation Southwest China higher education is not only the opportunities such as promoting the levels of higher education institutions,shaping styles of running schools,accelerating the pace of internationalization and so on,but also the chanllenge to the higher education concept,managerial system,the pattern of personnel trainning.Then the author points out Southwest China-ASEAN higher education cooperation is an inexorable choice that Southwest China higher education tries to meet the need of economic development.Part Two is mainly about the cooperation's basis,content and characteristics,and also introduces a typical case and its experience.Part Three,By investigating,the author finds the problems on the local government,the higher education institution,the cooperative projects etc,then analyzes the reasons of the problems.This part is also the emphasis and diffcult point of this thesis.Part Four,the author puts forward strategies and suggestions from different angles such as the relevant rules and laws of the state,local governments' serve function,the institutions' self construcion,the ASEAN students' management model to strengthen the Southwest China-ASEAN higher education cooperation.The suggestion includes:First,Further improving the relevant national laws and rules,for example,laws of Chinese-foreign cooperative education,system of transborder education quality guarantee.Second,Local governments should fulfil their service duties to higher education, to build a better circumstance for Southwest China -ASEAN higher education cooperation.Third,The institutions of Southwest China higher education need to accelarate their self construction,promote the level of running school.Fourth,Reform the ASEAN students' management model,to further the sustainable development of the cooperative education.