Access to Higher Education of 25 Ethnic Minorities
in Yunnan Province, South Western China

doi:10.1007/s11516-010-0019-9

Front. Educ. China

2010, Vol. 5

Issue (2) : 290-306 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-010-0019-9

Research articles

Access to Higher Education of 25 Ethnic Minorities in Yunnan Province, South Western China

Jianxin Zhang ¹, Jef C. Verhoeven²,

1.Research Institute of Higher Education, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China; 2.Centre for Sociological Research, University of Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium;

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Abstract The level of development of higher education (HE) is an important indicator to measure the development of the social economy and the civilization of a region or country. In this article, we compare the distribution of the freshmen of ethnic minorities (EMs) with the distribution of EMs over the population, based on a sample of 1 464 freshmen from 25 EMs of Yunnan Province in People’s Republic of China (PRC). Although this analysis shows that access to HE is equal for some categories of EM students, it still shows that access to HE is harder for these minorities in comparison with freshmen from Han (major ethnic group comprising of 92 % of the Chinese population) families.

Keywords ethnic minority undergraduate access to higher education education equality

Issue Date: 05 June 2010

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Jianxin Zhang,Jef C. Verhoeven. Access to Higher Education of 25 Ethnic Minorities in Yunnan Province, South Western China[J]. Front. Educ. China, 2010, 5(2): 290-306.

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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fed/EN/10.1007/s11516-010-0019-9
https://academic.hep.com.cn/fed/EN/Y2010/V5/I2/290

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