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China Center for Doctoral Education

 
About CRCDE
 
CRCDE was established in 2010, focusing its research on postgraduate education and doctoral education in particular. Basing on the continuous large-scale national surveys of doctoral education in China, it concerns all the important aspects of doctoral education, from policy to management, from students’ supervision to quality assurance, and values not only empirical research and practice-oriented study, but also theoretical and historical inquires.
CRCDE is affiliated to the Graduate School of Education, Peking University. Its research team consists of faculty from the PKU and other universities and institutes as well. Over the years, CRCDE has conducted many research projects and surveys funded by Academic Degrees Office of the Chinese State Council, China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center and Chinese Academy of Engineering, and participated in the draft of several government documents. CRCDE cooperates closely with the Graduate School of the PKU, and is actively connected with many higher education institutions around the world, such as the Department of Education Policy Studies (EPS)  at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (America), and the International Higher Education Center in Kassel University (Germany).
 
Research Interests of CRCDE includes
- Experience of the graduate students
- System and policy of the graduate education
- Quality and evaluation of graduate programs
- International comparison of the graduate education

      Major Publications

Report on the Development of Academic Degrees and Graduate Education in China 1978-2003. Higher Education Press, 2006.
Quality Analysis Report on Chinese Doctoral Education. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2010.
Doctoral Education Quality: Concepts, Evaluation and Development. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2010.
A Study on mechanism and mode of Joint PhD programs in HEIs and Engineering Research Institutes
Annual Report on Graduate Education in China (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). Renmin University Press,2013,2014;Higher Education Press,2015,2016
Cost-Benefit Analysis Report on the Government-funded Programme for Graduate Study Abroad. (2007-2014).

Research Projects 
Quality Analysis Report on Chinese Doctoral Education. 2010.
Doctoral Education under the Circumstance of Knowledge Transformation: Types, Processes and Evaluation. 2010-2013.
Quality Evaluation System Planning and Design of Graduate Education. 2013 -2015.
Study on Improving the Assessment System for the universities’ disciplines. 2014.
Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Government-funded Project for Graduate Study Abroad in Research Universities. 2014-2015.
Inspection Survey of Postgraduate theses. 2015-2016.
Survey on Chinese Postgraduate Education. 2015-2016.

 
Director: Professor Chen, Hongjie, Graduate School of Education, PKU
Shen, Wenqin, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, PKU
Cai, Leiluo, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, PKU
Gao, Yao, postdoctoral researcher, Graduate School of Education, PKU
Li Min, postdoctoral researcher, Graduate School of Education, PKU
Ma, Liping, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, PKU
Fan, Aiai, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, PKU
Zhao, Shikui, Professor, Beihang University
Wang, Dongfang, Associate Professor, Tianjin Normal University
Dr. Liu, Ziyu, China Agricultural University
Dr. Qin, Lin, National Institute of Education Sciences
 
Contact: Shen, Wenqin
 
Mobile: 13810627617 / Email:shenwenqin@pku.edu.cn