Higher Education Governance Research UK Since The 1980s Of The 20th Century

The governance of UK higher education is an important part of the modernization of the UK higher education. The essence of the UK higher education governance is the modernization of governance capacity of the British government in the background of global modernization. The UK is the first country to carry out governance reform and higher education governance in the world. In the1980’s, the UK launched the New Public Management movement in the public sector, and carried out higher education governance. The higher education marketization is one of the important measures of higher education governance, government introduced the market mechanism in higher education department and developed the marketization framework, leading to the financial source structure transformation of higher education. The Marketization of higher education, the popularization of higher education and the strengthening of the government regulation changed the situation of academic freedom and university autonomy, added new market dimensions in the traditional relationship between university and the nation, the power of academic community transferred to the central government and intermediary organizations, corporate governance body, consumers, reshaping the relationship between the university and the nation. New managerialism impluses the change of governance model in British university and the perfection of the governance structure. Headed by the Higher Education Funding Council, higher education intermediary organization system constructed the higher education supervision mechanism, setted up a buffer mechanism between university and the nation, promoting the social participation in higher education governance. Government and non government actors interacts in policy networks of UK higher education governance.After more than30years of construction and development, the governance of UK higher education has gained rich experience and success. Through the adjustment of the power relations and the flow of resourse, the government steers, market operations, society participates consist of higher education governance framework:government decides the way of higher education governance, sets the development framework of higher education; the market mechanism motives the higher education, changes the operation rules of university; Higher education intermediary organization system are government’s agency and the buffer with university, as policy actors non-governmental forces involved in network interaction, promoting social participation in higher education governance. The main experience of UK higher education governance are:The government strengthens governance capacity and attaches great importance to the social participation in governance; Pays attention to market function, recombining of government, society and market; respects academic freedom and university autonomy, builds the buffer mechanism between university and the nation.Considering the actual situation in our country, Some suggestions are made with reference to UK higher education governance experiences:first of all, establishes the mediating organization system to buffer relationship of university and the government; second, actively promotes the marketization of higher education, arouses the entrepreneurial spirit of university; third, perfects the university governance structure, balances the administrative power and academic power; Fourth, employs various governance means and tools, balancing vertical and horizontal governance; Fifth, strives to develop information technology, perfects information disclosure system.