The Study About System Evolution In Higher Education Investment Of New China

Higher education investment is a basic factor in higher education. It decidesthe characteristic connotations and the development paths of higher education inone country. Reasonable and effective higher education investment system hasbecome the key which decides one university obtain sufficient funds or not, andalso becomes the basic guarantee that the entire higher education enterprisesmovement highly effective and development healthily. Therefore, the researchabout the higher education investment institutional change means a vitalpractical significance. New institutional economics provides the new researchtechnique and the angle for us.The content includes five chapters and its introduction. In the introduction,the conception of this paper and the meaning of new institutional economicinfiltrating into the domain of higher education investment are briefly related.Chapter one sketches the books and articles about higher education investment,explains general concepts and theoretical principle related higher educationinvestment from the angle of new institutional economics.From two angles about mandatory and causes system evolution, chapter tworeviews and summarizes about our country higher education investment sincefrom the founding of The People's Republic of China, with cutting into from thesystem analysis and utilizing the new system economic research technique, andpointed out the way dependence still be a main barrier on the developmentalroad of our country higher education investment. Chapter three analyzes thequestion and the reason which exists in our country current higher educationinvestment system thoroughly. At present, there also exist system defects inhigher education investment in China, such as the shortage of the financial funds,financial allocations mechanism lagging behind; the tuition fee level gonebeyond the payment ability of the most residents, the unperfected subsidysystem for the student; scale of the social donations unformed; unreasonable distribution and the lower utilizing efficiency of the resource in the highereducation institutions in China, etc. There must be a deep origination behind thesystem defects. Because of the whole society still being in a period of transitionin China, the passivity brought from the transition status is influencing theinvestment field of the higher education from different respects. Institutionalchange is an unceasing process, how to analyze the system vicissitude under thecurrent situation, is one of questions which this paper ponders.Chapter four has carried on contrast to the representative higher educationinvestment patterns in Western countries, and analyzed useful experience. Fromthe system angle, this paper point out the basis principle and method should beaccording to in the next correlation system decision-making.Chapter five indicates that the policy-maker should build the good systemevolution environment firstly, choose appropriate vicissitude ways, accountreasonable cost, and should take the measures in many aspects to perfect thestructure of the existing higher education investment, such as establishing andamplifying the investment mechanism of raising funds for higher educationthrough many channels on the basis of increasing financial allocations; Andperfect the university interior property control system, the finance rules andregulations. Defining university property right and establishing the modernuniversity system as soon as possible, become the key to deepen our countryhigher education investment reform.