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The Evolution And Prospect Of Chinese Key Universities Policy In The View Of New Institutionalism

Posted on:2007-06-02Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:B X HuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360242462981Subject:Higher Education
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Since 1950s',Chinese key universities policy has become a vitally contributive policy which influences the structure and development outset of our higher education. The thesis analyzes the right structural features and distributive forms of the policy subject, the policy characteristics, institutional logic of key universities policy and reconstruct its prospect in the view of new institutionalism.The thesis presents the point that global first-class universities possess necessarily strategic status in the national development and rejuvenation in the background of knowledge-orientated economy and globalization. Therefore, it has strategic significance to pose key universities policy for the higher- education-developing countries to catch up with the higher-education-developed ones. The thesis puts forward the policy- employment's experience and lessons of Korea, Japan and Germany by doing comparative cases analysis of their key universities policies'concret contents and processes.The thesis poses that the development of Chinese key universities policy is a dynamically evolution course. The policies'characteristic criteria can be roughly classified into four stages, i.e."thorough learning towards Soviet"stage,"Enhance educational quality"stage,"Integral construction"stage and"Create first-class universities"stage. The author points out that Chinese key universities policy is the legacy of planned economy by analysing the characteristics of each stage. In order to meet the preserved national & governmental demands, it keeps government's leading role and aims at enhancing key universities'educational quality and running benefit, demonstrating in integrated support & involvement as well as adjusting higher education resources & benefit distribution outset. The main characteristics of Chinese key universities policy is as follows:1)"Efficiency priority"is Chinese key universities policy's value base. In order to realize"efficiency priority", the government adapts institutional forms to collect resources so as to preserve the monopoly status of elite education.2) Chinese key universities policy's purpose is to meet the strategic demands of the specific periods.3) The policy subject is the nation (or government). The governmental power plays absolutely leading role in policy-making, policy-execution and policy-evaluation.4) The government adapt gradual policy-making mode. The political elites play vital role in policy-making. The policy executes according to government's will and is instrumented by the subordinate functional departments.5) The government employs up-to-down policy-execution process. The government has the upper power to the policies'execution & supervision. In Scientific view, Chinese key universities policy has three disadvantages:a. lack of effective social-participated policy-making mechanism;b. lack of trust-worthy policy-supervising mechanism;c. lack of objective policy-evaluation mechanism;The thesis points out that the policy is a inter-restrictional result of internal & external institutions. The internal one refers to the traditional centralized-control political culture and the educational value of"official protection". The external one refers to the restriction institution of departmentalism, sole-criterium policy-evaluation institution, which is a kind of rigid restriction to the policies. The intertwining of the two institutions makes the key universities policies institutional for elitism higher education development.Therefore, the author presents the view: In order to perfect key universities policy, we should reconstruct the present related institutions as well as emphasize policy study so as to improve policy's scientification and democracy.Firstly, we should transform governmental management function, mold service government. Especially we need keep on affair units institutions reform and the executive admission institution reform.Secondly, we should set up educational intermediary organization and prefect social accountability mechanism.Thirdly, we should continue the property right reform and personnel institution reform of universities so as to strengthen universities'competitive level.Lastly, we should put importance onto policy studying in order to enhance its scientification and democracy.
Keywords/Search Tags:New institutionalism, Key universities, Policy analysis
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