College of Education Administration

College of Principal Training
National Training Center for Primary School Principal
North-China Training Center for Education Administrator

College's Mission
To become a world leading college in education administration and policy study
To increase significantly knowledge and understanding on the education administration and policy making
To equip graduates and school principals to make an important contribution to the education practice
To bridge theory and practice through research, training and consultancy

A Message from the Dean of College of Education Administration
Dear friends,
Founded in 1981, the College of Education Administration (CEA) of Beijing Normal University (BNU), is a leading college in education administration and policy study in China, consecutively and consistently rated in the Top One for teaching and research in the discipline of education economics and administration, with an enviable record of close links with the schools and the governments at different levels. CEA is the first college to provide doctor program in education economics and administration. It has some 240 master and doctor graduates in 2005. At same time, CEA is also directly under leadership of Ministry of Education as National Training Center for Primary School Principals and North China Education Administrator Training Center. In 2004, College of Principal Training of BNU was established on the basis of two national training centers. It aims to provide high quality training for the principals in order to meet the new demand from the principals in the context of the 21st century education reform. Now it trains some 1200 school principals and other education administrators per year by the participatory, school-based way.

We are committed to increase significantly knowledge and understanding on the education administration and policy making, to equip graduates and school principals to make an important contribution to the education practice, to bridge theory and practice through research, training and consultancy. Yours sincerely,
Chu Hongqi
Dean of CEA

About College of Education Administration (CEA)
College of Education Administration (CEA) of Beijing Normal University (BNU) was founded in 1981. Prof. Gu Mingyuan, One of the most famous educators in China, took the founding dean of CEA. CEA is also the National Training Center for Primary School Principals, the North China Training Center for education administrators and the Principal Training College of BNU. It is under joint leadership of both MoE(Ministry of Education) and BNU. As both a leading college of education administration and policy study and a national training base of principals and education administrators, CEA's distinguishing feature is to unify the teaching, research, training and consulting service together.

CEA consists of the Institute of Educational Development, the Institute for Economics of Education, the Institute of School Leadership and Management, the Institute of Higher Education Administration, Office of College Affaires, Training Division, Teaching Research Division, International Exchange Division and the Library. CEA provides two Master programs (Educational Economics and Administration, Higher Education Administration) and two Ph.D. Programs (Educational Economics and Administration, Higher Education Administration). The number of graduate students at both master and doctoral levels has reached 240 in 2005. CEA is the first college to provide Ph.D. programs in education economics and administration in China. At present, Educational Economics and Administration is Beijing's key discipline, which has ranked the top one for six consecutive years in the discipline ranking in China.

CEA, as a national training center, provide a variety of professional development programs and in-service training. A large number of education administrators, principals of primary & middle school (including Hong Kong and Macao principals) and university administrators have been trained by CEA. The total number has reached 30,000 persons, with the average of about 1200 persons and 25 training courses per year.

All the people in CEA keep BNU' s motto (Learn to be a master and act to be a model") and CEA' s motto (Unity, Diligence, Down to earth and To be committed ) in mind and are committed to increase significantly of knowledge and understanding on the education administration and policy making, to equip graduates and school principals to make an important contribution to the education practice, to bridge theory and practice through research, training and consultancy.

Overview of the Research of CEA
As a college in a research university, CEA attaches great importance to the research. Research permeates our entire culture and links closely with the teaching and training. This synergy of research and teaching benefit both the staff and the students and ensure our research and teaching high quality. CEA is consecutively and consistently rated in the Top One for teaching and research in the discipline of education economics and administration in China. As the leading college in education economics and administration in China, CEA's goal is to strengthen our international cooperation to make our college a world wide well-known college in education economics, administration and policy study.

CEA consists of the Institute of Educational Development, the Institute of Economics of Education, the Institute of School Leadership and Management, the Institute of Higher Education Administration. These institutes ensure our research with a particular feature of interdiscipline and collaboration. Since the year of 2001, CEA has more than 30 national and provincial key research projects, more than 30 collaborative projects from the governments and the schools. CEA also has a close link with World Bank, UNICEF and DFID, etc. and undertake many research and consultancy work for these international organizations.

Institute of Education Development(IED)
Our institute Institute of Education development, established by Beijing Normal University and National Center for Education Development Research as a research and teaching organization, mainly focuses on the overall, strategic and forecasting issues, especially about educational structure and institutions in the process of education reform and development. Its priorities are the education development strategies in national and regional levels, and cooperating with international organizations to practice comparative studies, as well as based on such studies to discuss about the unique approaches to realize further improvements of Chinese education, and about the strategies and system to promote the coordinated, harmonious, and sustainable developments.

Our mission
We pursue the aims, by insistent endeavors, of positioning our institute as one of the national top research organizations for education development in the next few years, of producing a series of high quality research results with national and international impacts, and of providing references for making education policy and decisions in national and regional levels. In order to achieve such ends, recently, we will especially research on Chinese educational developing indicators, local education development strategies, Chinese higher education development strategies, comparative studies on educational legislation and modern school system.

Our Graduate Program
Doctor Programs include education development, education policy and laws, education policy analysis,

Master Programs include education development strategies, education policy and laws, postgraduate education development strategies, school security management.

Faculty
Zhou Haitao, PH.D, Post-doctor of management.
Associate professor, Director of IED.
Research interests: education development strategies, local education plan, educational organization management, curriculum, postgraduate education management, school security management, educational human resources management, and leadership, etc.
Chu Hongqi PH.D
Professor in education, Dean of CEA of Beijing Normal University.
Research interests: education development, education policy and laws, education management, and education history in foreign countries etc.
Su Junyang, PH.D
lecturer
Research interests: educational theory, educational policy and laws, education management etc.
Zhao Decheng, PH.D
Lecturer
Research interests: organizational behavior, teacher professional development and educational psychology.
Niu Zhikui, PH.D
Lecturer
Research interests: education law, education policy and comparative education.
Zhang Li
Professor, the Director of NationalCenter for Education Development Research.
Hao Keming
Professor, Doctor of American Hood, the Director of Advisory Commission of National Education Development Research Center, the director of China Education Development Strategies Research Association, and the associate leader of National Education Science Plan group.
Tan Songhua
Professor, the associate chairman of China Education Association.
Zhang Xing
Professor, the associate director of China Future Research Association.
Gao Shuguo
Professor, the director of Education Policy Research Office attached to NationalCenter for Education Development Research, and the secretary of China Education Development Strategy Research Association.
Institute for Economics of Education(IEE)
Our Institute
The research of economics of education and education finance has a long history in BeijingNormalUniversity(BNU). The first master and doctor program in economics of education and education finance were initiated in BNU. IEE, based at the College of Education Administration, seeks to undertake broad and systematic research in economics of education and education finance.

The aim of Institute for Economics of Education is to pursuit excellent research in this discipline, to innovate the knowledge, to serve the government, school and other institutions. There are five research strands in our institute: education finance, economics of school management, economics of education policy, education and labor market and personnel economics.

Our Mission
The mission of Institute for economics of education is to deepen the understanding of education sector, education and economy in the perspective of economics, to bridge the economics with the education policy maker and the educator.

Our Program

Master of education economics aims at creating the education policy analyst, school management consultant, human resource manager and the government official. The program provides micro- and macro-economics, economics of education, education finance, labor economics, personnel economics, cost benefit analysis, econometrics, research methodology, school management, school effectiveness, etc.

Doctor of education economics aims at creating the academic researchers in economics of education and education finance. The program provides some lectures in the frontier of each research strand and senior academic discipline.

Faculty
Du Yuhong, PH.D

Professor in economics of education, Deputy President of National Association of Economics of Education.

Research interests: economics of school management, education finance and education and social development.

Hu Yongmei, PH.D

Associate Professor in economics of education and statistics.

Research interests: research methodology, statistics and economics of education.

Du Ping, PH.D

Associate Professor in economics of education,.

Research interests: education and labor market, school effectiveness, education finance.

Hou Longlong

PH.D in economics of education in Peking university, Post Doctor in management in Tsinghua university.

Research interests: economics of higher education, personnel economics and labor economics.

Part-time Faculty

Wang Shanmai

Professor in economics, President of National Association of Economics of Education.

Research interests: education finance, public economics and education policy.

Jin Xibin

Professor in economics of education, Deputy President of National Association of Economics of Education.

Research interests: economics of education, human resource management.

Qu Hengchang

Professor in education, Former director of the institute of comparative education.

Research interests: comparative education, private education and education finance.

Lai Desheng

Professor in economics, Director of the center for labor economics.

Research interests: labor economics, education and income distribution and higher education.

Institute of School Leadership and Management(ISLM)
Our Institute
The Institute of School Leadership and Management was based at the College of Education Administration at Beijing Normal University is dedicated to the study of contemporary primary and secondary school management issues as well as theoretical foundations of school management.

The aim of Institute of School Leadership and Management is to build knowledge in a broad range of disciplines to enable educational management to construct as an academic area.There are five basic research focuses of the institute, school leadership in both general and curriculum scheme, school strategic research in both management and planning, quality of school in both management and evaluation, sociology and psychology of school development, teachers' development in both career and mental health conditions.

The Institute of School Leadership and Management is leading the role of the research of primary school studies in China. Institute will launch a blue-cover-book each year for the management situations and developments of Chinese primary schools.
Our mission
The mission of Institute of School Leadership and Management is to create useful academic knowledge of school management based on multi-methodology in cooperating with school practitioners, education officials as well as our energetic resource-graduate students.
Our program
Master of Education Administration Program aims at creating human resource for school management.The program provide foundations of education, principals of management and educational administration, organizational behavior, qualitative and quantitative research methods, leadership studies, management consultant and diagnostics, school organization and staff development, quality management and quality control of school, human resource management, school strategic management and other courses.

Doctor of Education Administration Program aims at creating academic researchers of educational management.Under the good guidance of our staff members, student can have very good academic development along the frontier of the area.
Faculty
Wu Yan, PH.D.

Associate Professor in school leadership and management.

Research interests: principal study, curriculum leadership, school knowledge management and school strategic management

Cheng Fenchun, Ph.D.

Professor.

Research interests: theory of educational administration, quality management in education, ISO9000 series used in education organization, strategic human resource management in education organization

Xiang Beili, Ph.D.

Associate Professor.

Research interests: theory of curriculum and instruction, the phenomenology of education, narrative studies of education

Chu Jiangting, Ph.D.

Associate Professor.

Research interests: school developmental strategy and planning, consultation of school administration, teacher's development, theory of educational administration, school- based action research, sociological analysis in school administration

Chen Suoming, Ph. D.

Candidate, Associate Professor.

Research interests: efficacy of school evaluation, humanity in education management

Yao Jihai, Ph. D.

Lecturer.

Research interests: organizational behavior and educational psychology, school management consulting and teacher management in primary and secondary Schools

Jia Leixia, M.A.

Lecturer.

Research interests: human resource development, team building and leadership; principal's job related behavior, teacher's professional development, teacher's mental and managerial consultant

Institute of Higher Education Administration (IHEA)
Institute of Higher Education Administration (IHEA) is one of the four institutes in the College of Education Administration at BeijingNormalUniversity.IHEAserves as a center for teaching, research, and service pertaining to higher education administration.Research covers such topics as leadership development, faculty performance and development, quality assurance, the outcomes of post-secondary education, college student experience, and others.We offer graduate degree programs in Higher Education Administration and Student Affairs in Higher Education Administration.The programs include preparation at the master's and doctoral levels for students who plan to achieve leadership positions in higher education and related fields.
Master of Education (Ed M) in Higher Education Administration (HEA)
The Master of Education (Ed.M.) degree in Higher Education Administration prepares students for entry-level administrative positions at colleges and universities in such areas as teaching and learning support services, human resource services, and student services.Our HEA program stresses a core of knowledge in general higher education, administration, research methods, and leadership development. This program requires a minimum of 36 semester credit hours.
Master of Education (Ed M) in Student Affairs in Higher Education (SAHE)
The Master of Education (Ed.M.) degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education Administration prepares students for entry-level administrative positions at colleges and universities in major areas of student services, including advising, admissions and enrollment management, career planning and placement, discipline, student financial aid, student activities, and residence life.Our SAHE program is the first professional degree program in student affairs in China; it stresses a core of knowledge in general higher education, student affairs administration, research methods, and student leadership development. This program requires a minimum of 36 semester credit hours.

Doctor of Higher Education( PH.D)

The doctor of higher education degree prepares students for the academics in higher education research. Under the good guidance of our staff members, student can have very good academic development along the frontier of the area.

Faculty

Chengwen Hong, PH.D

Professor.

Research interests: Comparative higher education, quality assurance in higher education, and school management.

Qi Li, PH.D

Associate Professor and Program Director

Research interests: higher education leadership and policy, quality assurance in higher education, and college student personnel administration,

Yaqing Mao, PHD

Professor

Research and Professional Interests: Educational theories, quality assurance in higher education, educational management, and human resource management.

Zuoyu Zhou, PHD

Professor

Research interests: Principles of education, higher education, and human resource management.

Part-time Faculty

Dai Jiagan

Professor in education, the Director of Examination Center of Ministry of Education.

Research interests: human resource management in university, higher education law and entrepreneur in higher education.

Wu Zhigong

Professor in education, the President of Electricity Technology University.

Research interests: student service in university, university management and comparative education.

Student life

Professional Development
As a research-oriented college in education economics and administration, CEA also gets funding from Ministry of education directly for the professional development of education administrators and principals. From this perspective, CEA is NationalTrainingCenter for Primary School Principals, North-ChinaTrainingCenter for Education Administrator, College of Principal training of BeijingNormalUniversity. We provide training programs for principals at different levels. We also provide training programs for the director of education bureau and education inspector at different levels. Based on our research, we also provide training for university administrators. For the time being, we have provided the training programs for about 30,000 principals and education administrators from all over the country.
Training Innovation and International Cooperation
CEA, as a national training center, undertakes the task to innovate the training module. We implemented the School Development Planning Program funded by UNICEF in the past five years and are initiating a new five-year plan. We seek to have more cooperation with international organizations on the broader area of the training.

Chinese Principal Development Network

Chinese Principal Development Network (CPDN) is a website which is run by CEA, its main aim is to support the training for principals of Primary & Middle school by internet.

The main content of CPDN are: Principal Development, Education Policies and Laws, Schools with Characteristic, Principals' Portrait, Curriculums On Line, Information & Data of School, Training Developments, Principals' Interview, Principals' Training Abroad, Principals' Development Forum,etc.

CPDN ' s network address: http://pdn.cea.bnu.edu.cn/
Contact us:
Zhang Dingquan
Tel: 010-58806101
E-mail: pdn@cea.bnu.edu.cn

International Exchange and Cooperation
As the leading college in education economics and administration in China, CEA seeks to strengthen the international academic exchanges. We believe international exchanges and cooperation is one of the most prosperous areas to a research-oriented college in a globalized era. International cooperation and exchanges will benefit the participant as well as the world.We have links with about 20 education schools from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Belgium, Denmark, and so on. The faculty of college undertakes many research and consultancy projects for international organization, such as World Bank, UNICEF and DFID, etc. Currently, we are doing the impact assessment for World Bank and DFID's Bilateral project of Basic Education in Western Area Project. The college is also the coordinator of UNICEF Project program on School Development Planning in western area in China. We wish to expand our international cooperation, especially the academic cooperation with world famous education school.

Contact us:
Professor Du Yuhong
Tel: 010-58808098
Fax:010-58806107
Email:dyh@bnu.edu.cn

Unity
Diligence
Down to earth
To be committed
Motto, College of Education Administration