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There are several common trends and challenges in the higher education (HE) system around the world, like expansion and diversification of HE, fiscal pressure and orientation to markets, demand for greater accountability and great quality and efficiency. These trends and changes have reshaped teaching-oriented university governance as well. teaching-oriented Universities are important institutions to carry out HE in the UK and China. The engagement between the UK and China in HE sector has become closer and closer in recent years. To conduct better and further cooperation and collaboration between British and Chinese teaching-oriented universities, it is critical to understand and acknowledge the differences in two nations’ teaching-oriented university governance. Moreover,by conducting this comparative study of two nations, it also helps us to figure out the changes in teaching-oriented university governance over times under the global trends and the interactions between global and local factors. This comparative study focuses on the university level and attempts to identify the differences of university governance in the UK and Chinese teaching-oriented universities in three dimensions, state-university relation, university internal governance and university finance.This paper sketches the teaching-oriented university governance in the UK and China and finds that the relationship between government and university is looser in the UK than that in China and British universities enjoy more autonomy and power than Chinese universities; as to university internal governance, British teaching-oriented universities use a more business-oriented management mechanism; funding associated with full-fee paying international students has become very important for British HE while Chinese government funding has been decreasing as well but funds from international students play a minimal financial role. |