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China has undergone unprecedented changes since the Reform and Opening-up policy in 1978. Policy experimentation (PE) has been key in generating and catalysing reforms in the process. This study proposes a conceptual framework to describe the different pathways of PE-enabled reforms. Comparing two empirically informed case studies, this study demonstrates the functions of this policy tool plays within China's higher education policy-making and development: generative, rhetorical and regulatory. The paper argues that PE can be a genuinely productive mechanism for producing, identifying and negotiating new policy options while allowing the government to supervise and regulate institutional reform behaviours. However, under certain conditions, it assumes more of a symbolic role allowing the government to acquire or consolidate reform legitimacy without engaging substantial innovation. By highlighting those key roles of PE, this paper provides a distinctive perspective for understanding the policy-making and reform process in China's higher education development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The outbreak of COVID-19 has triggered a worldwide upsurge in online education. This paper first reviews the actions implemented by Tsinghua University in response to COVID-19 as an example. Based on the experience, the paper further discusses how to turn the 'forced innovation' happened in the pandemic into an 'anti-pandemic dividend' that could expedite the transformation of higher education, through institutionalizing and normalizing the actions taken under the outbreak. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In view of the fact that the research method of innovative talent education model is too single, this paper studies the education model of industry-university-research (IUR) cooperation in training application-oriented innovative talents from the two aspects of qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis. Firstly, this paper analyses the education status of IUR cooperation in training application-oriented innovative talents. Then, based on the previous studies, it conducts qualitative analysis on the education model of IUR cooperation to cultivate applied innovative talents. Finally, it proposes a quantitative analysis method for the application-oriented innovative talent education model based on IUR cooperation. The quantitative analysis method proposed in this paper is applied to the research of application-oriented innovative talent education model for the first time, which has made a useful attempt to introduce quantitative analysis in this field. The research results, from qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis, show the evaluation method of the education model for application-oriented innovative talent based on IUR cooperation, which provides a theoretical reference for the development of innovative talent education in various fields, and also has important practical significance for promoting the transformation of talent training ideas in higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the further development of the reform of higher education system in China, the role and status of innovation and entrepreneurship education are becoming more and more prominent. In the future, the society urgently needs talented people with innovative and entrepreneurial capabilities. In order to better meet the social needs of innovative and entrepreneurial talents, and to promote in-depth innovation and entrepreneurship education in schools, Guangdong University of Technology has established a base for innovation and entrepreneurship training and incubation. In this paper, the base construction ideas, base function construction and safeguard measures are discussed. After years of exploration and practice, the school was named seven national-level honorable titles such as the first hatch of national deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education model universities, national innovation and entrepreneurship typical experience universities, state-level public space and so on. The experience can provide reference for the construction of innovation and entrepreneurship bases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]