Higher education, justice and society

In the late 1990s universities in China started to enlarge the enrollment of students which led to an obvious decrease of gender gap and ethnic gap. The proportion of students of rural origin has been on the increase overall, but decreases in universities which also engage in research. In the urbanization process currently undergone by China, migrants’ children’s access to education has now become the new problems of educational equity.

The author

Yang Dongping is a Chinese scholar for education research, member of the National Education Advisory Committee and professor at Beijing Institute of Technology. He has had a long standing interest in educational equity issues and engaged in different activities in this area. He currently heads the 21st Century Education Research Institute, an influential non-governmental think tank in China.

简介
杨东平，中国著名的教育学者，国家教育咨询委员会委员，北京理工大学教授，长期从事教育
公平研究并参与行动。他领导的21世纪教育研究院，是在中国具有很高声誉和影响力的民间教
育智库

The Text

Ce texte est issu de la conférence prononcée par Yang Dongping lors de la réception du Prix Charles et Monique Morazé 2015, le 22 octobre 2015 à la Maison Suger à Paris.