A Study On The Policy Evaluation Of The Internationalization Of Talents In Shanghai Universities

With the development of the globalization of knowledge economy, politics,culture, science and technology in all countries of the world have to go global, weneed new look from the perspective of international competitiveness of our highereducation. In recent years, Chinas higher education has achieved a historic leapforward development, is from the big country of higher education to a powerfulnation.One major goal of the development and reform of education is to build anumber of world-class universities and a number of internationally renowneduniversities in China.To achieve this goal, Chinese universities are exploring differentways to improve their higher education and internationalization.One widely acceptedway is to build international faculty of high quality, since such faculty is primarilyrequired by university internationalization and it is completely an importantguarantee for building world first-class universities.At present when compared to world first-class universities, Chinese universitiesare still in great shortage of international faculty. To change this situation, Chinesecentral and local governments have issued a number of talent plans with an intentionof attracting outstanding overseas talents to come back and workdomestically.Accordingly, many universities started dedicatedinternationalization-oriented talent introduction policies based on these talent plansto recruit excellent new faculty. As belonging to public policies, these policies deserveserious evaluation. The evaluation for them is necessary and quite crucial forscientific and democratic decisions making, flaws detecting in implementation andquick adjustment etc., all of which ensure that the policies are implemented correctlyand efficiently. Moreover, the evaluation can be used to decide whether or not weshould keep the policies running and even provide reference for new talent andinnovation policies issuing.Though such evaluation is of great importance, currently there are rarely studiesfocusing on this topic, neither are the known results on it. Thus this thesis focuses onthis topic and is devoted mainly to building an assessing mechanism for internationalization-oriented university talent introduction policies.The mainproblems investigated in this thesis include how to choose evaluation factors for thedifference phases of such policies and how to select the reasonable evaluationcriteria and pick the evaluation models correspondingly.This thesis is organized as follows. First, we state the current status ofinternationalization of Chinese universities. Second, we survey someinternationalization-oriented university talent introduction policies and then presentfurther analysis. The major part of the thesis is an establishment of the evaluationmechanism for internationalization-oriented university talent recruiting policies. Ourmain results are as follows:1. In the making phase of such policies, we propose to carry out the evaluationfrom the form dimension, regarding the democracy and pluralistic interest balance ofdifferent people, and the relations between the policies being assessed and laws aswell as existing policies as assessing factors, selecting related evaluation criteria andthen picking the stakeholder model as the evaluation model.2. In the policy implementation phase, we put forward to do the evaluationfrom the target acquisition dimension, which consists of two aspects of data changeand policy influence. In the evaluation of data change, we propose to choose datachange of faculty as the assessing factor, and select faculty structure and quality asevaluation criteria and pick the gola-attainment model as the evaluation model.Inthe evaluation of policy influence, we bring forward to choose education, innovation,social serving and cultural inheritance as assessing factors,and select correspondingevaluation criteria and pick the comprehensive model as the evaluation model.3. In the evaluation of policy effects,we propose to perform the evaluation fromthe policy effect dimension,considering those expected and unexpected, positive andnegative effects of the policies etc. We put forward to choose the effects on policymakers, policy-executers, universities and domestic and international societies asassessing factors, and select corresponding assessing criteria and pick the side-effectsmodel and the goal-free model as the evaluation models.