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How to realize social fairness and equality through distance and open learning? - Li Yawan, Qi Wei

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Author:	Li Yawan, Qi Wei
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Abstract For the past decades, China has formed a relatively perfect legal system for education. The Constitution of People’s Republic of China adopted on December 4, 1982 stipulates the general principles of equal rights to education. On the basis of that, China established a dozen of specific laws and regulations on education in which concrete rights to education are proclaimed. To realize equal right to education is to guarantee most people to receive education and more people to enjoy higher education. Applying the American scholar, Professor Martin Trow’s concept about the three phases of higher education, which are Elite Education, Mass Education and Popularizing Education, China is now stepping out of the elite education phase and progressing to the mass education. For the past ten years, China’s higher education is developing fast. The overall active enrolment from various kinds of higher educational institutions has amounted to 23 million and the recruits from higher education institutions have reached over 5 million by 2005. Though the gross rate for enrollment has been 21%, many people who intent to continue their study are closed outside the door of the higher education institutions and many who want to upgrade their knowledge and skill cannot find the places suitable to their concrete conditions. Therefore, there is great potential to develop open learning and distance education so that different people’s requirement for education and training can be satisfied.
Keywords equal right to education, mass education, equity

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