The Market-based Transformation Of Public University's Principle--agent Relation

As everyone knows, with the advances in world economic globalization, the increasing fierceness in market competition and the prevailing of human capital, educational reforms, especially the key issues of the reforms, such as quality of the public university and educational marketization, etc. gradually become the topic of interest to the people of our country. Though in these years, some changes have already taken place in educational systems in China, but the control system from top to bottom still exists. Defects in administrative clientage of public university become especially conspicuous, and its operation efficiency worried people. The educational system and its corresponding operating system do not meet the requirements of the reform in economic, politic and scientific systems, which have become the bottleneck of reform in china.Taking the present public university's administrative clientage as the breakthrough, the first part of the thesis analyzes all sorts of-reasons and drawbacks in the public university's administrative clientage and reaches the conclusion that the present clientage is in essence the administrative clientage, which is the outcome of the planned economy. The second part of the thesis analyzes the feasibility of market-based transformation on public university's clientage from the following three aspects: the theoryof principal--agent, the development of higher education industry andChina's joining in WTO and in globalization competition. From the transformation target mode and concrete methods, the third part of the thesis expounds how to carry on the market-based transformation, improve the operation efficiency of the public university, and strengthen the competition ability of the school. Its value lies in its economy, competitiveness, creativity, and service, which shows the time characteristics and pours vigor into the higher education.The behavior stems from the motive and purpose. Under the marketeconomic system, the behavior of higher education stems from the needs of the development of the market economy. Utilizing the disposition function displayed by the market on the educational resources puts the government, university and society in the interdynamic connection system and allows the free flow of the educational resources among them. This can make the university correspondingly meet the requirements of the market. At the same time, it can stimulate or suppress the development of higher education through activities such as economic support from the market. The university is an independent entity in the market, which can managing, restrain and develop itself, and the market in turn provided a fine social environment for the university to launch the fair and reasonable competition. Such benign cycle could offer a reliable guarantee for the educational undertaking of our country.