Study On Enrollment Policy For Students From Xinjiang To High School Classes In Inland Cities

The education for ethnic groups is an important part in national education, to which great importance has been attached by the party and the state. Due to historical, economic and geographic reasons, ethnic regions are left behind in terms of educational quality and level. Compared with the developed regions in Mideast China, the difference in this regard is even more noticeable. To promote the development of education in ethnic regions, a series of measures and preferential policies have been launched. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (hereinafter referred to as Xinjiang) is such a place that has the largest land area, the most neighboring countries and the longest border line in China. The prosperity and stability of Xinjiang are closely related to China’s harmony, stability and prosperity. Under the background of implementing the strategies of "Revitalizing the Nation through Science and Education", and "Great Development for the Western Region of China", Xinjiang is now facing new opportunities and challenges for education in this fast growing period. The Enrollment Policy for High School Students from Xinjiang to Inland Cities was started in September2000. It is a schooling mode of making use of economic and educational advantages of eastern region to cultivate talents for the west, and thus provide intellectual support for Xinjiang. Every year, competent middle school graduates from Xinjiang are enrolled to high schools in inland cities with good-quality educational resources so that the goal of cultivating talents can be fulfilled. Over the past12years, the objectives of the policy have been preliminarily achieved, with obvious development effects recognized in scale, quantity and quality, which in turn has proved the policy’s correctness and effectiveness. However, the problems with the policy itself have appeared in the implementation course. This has prevented the implementation of the policy making the best result that the policy might yield. Therefore, it is necessary and also has become a must to study on the policy.The thesis is written in a logical way of discovering problems, analyzing problems and solving problems. The analysis of evolution and current implementation of the policy is followed by the study on the text of the policy; the summary of the content of the policy; the problems of the text of the policy which are discovered through the effort in using relevant theories of science of policy and pedagogy and combining the actual effects after the policy is implemented; the in-depth analysis of the reasons behind the problems; and the referential solutions to the optimization and development of the policy.The thesis includes five parts: The first part is introduction. This part covers why the topic is selected and under what of kind of background the study is conducted; the objective and significance of the study; the summary of relevant research documents; the core concepts and the frame of the thesis; the study methods; and the suggestions on what can be done for possible improvement.The second part includes Chapter I. In this part, the evolution of the policy for high school classes for students from Xinjiang is analyzed and summarized from three aspects, namely, the evolution of coordinative policy for supporting Xinjiang, the evolution of the basic policy for high school classes for students from Xinjiang and the evolution of enrollment policy for high school classes for students from Xinjiang.The third part is Chapter Ⅱ and Chapter Ⅲ. The content of this part is to discover problems on the basis of summarizing the policy from four aspects, including enrollment objective and publicity work, enrollment institution and scale, potential candidates and methods of enrolling students, physical checkup requirement and preferential policy. And three major problems of the policy, namely, shortage of independent enrollment right, deficiency in enrollment standard, and unfairness in extra store mechanism adopted in enrollment process, are then listed. This part is about the analysis of two factors, policy making and policy implementing. The analysis is done by using such theories as fairness, elite, acceptance and rejection theory, and social change. Through the analysis, new discoveries are made in the reasons behind the problems of the policy, which are mainly reflected in: compensative mechanism of policy making failing in fulfilling its goal; elite value in policy making bringing about deviation of policy content; improper acceptance and rejection of preferential policies adding new unfairness to enrollment threshold; hysteresis of policy adjustment making it hard to achieve the objectives of the policy.The forth part is Chapter IV. In this part, referential solutions to the optimization and development of the policy from three aspects including independent enrollment, enrollment standard and auxiliary service are shared.The fifth part is Chapter V. In this part, the significance of the study on the policy, the content of how the policy is studied, and the conclusion of the study are stated.