"China and other Asian countries are responding to the global recession with massive public investment in higher education while Western nations cut university budgets, an international conference has heard.
Among the speeches at the World Universities Forum in Davos, Switzerland were two that highlighted contrasting government and public attitudes to higher education in China and the US.
Linda Katehi, chancellor of the University of California, Davis, looked at the future of the state's publicly funded university system in the wake of a 20 per cent budget cut over the past year.
She warned that without increased federal and state investment, America's public research universities faced the 'shrunken, caste-bound future of the privatised university'.
David Strangway, who co-chaired the Task Force on Innovation and Environment for the China Council on International Co-operation on Environment and Development, presented a contrasting vision of higher education investment in China, particularly in the low-carbon economy."
Among the speeches at the World Universities Forum in Davos, Switzerland were two that highlighted contrasting government and public attitudes to higher education in China and the US.
Linda Katehi, chancellor of the University of California, Davis, looked at the future of the state's publicly funded university system in the wake of a 20 per cent budget cut over the past year.
She warned that without increased federal and state investment, America's public research universities faced the 'shrunken, caste-bound future of the privatised university'.
David Strangway, who co-chaired the Task Force on Innovation and Environment for the China Council on International Co-operation on Environment and Development, presented a contrasting vision of higher education investment in China, particularly in the low-carbon economy."