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Study On The Higher Education Cost Sharing Mechanism

Posted on:2008-04-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360242958925Subject:Business management
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Chinese higher education in 1997 introduced to a comprehensive fee system that formed a multi-channel source of funding for the ordinary colleges and universities. The practicing of this reform, making our country to form a cost sharing pattern that the government and the pedagogue individual as primary and the other aspects such as the social donation as auxiliary, has been largely resolved the financial difficulties of the higher education. That the question "what is higher education cost", the foundation of the cost-sharing mechanism, has not obtained very good explanation actually made the scientific nature and rationality of tuition fee standard to be questioned. At the same time, the rising of tuition fee has caused the social attention to the cost sharing, such as the reasonable foundation of the cost sharing mechanism, the form of main sharing body should take, the ratio of sharing. Therefore, the issue that a reasonable scientific foundation for determining the cost of higher education and the construction of higher education cost-sharing mechanism in China has been urgent to resolve.By constructing the higher education cost-sharing mechanism in china, a basis for decision-making policy that the government how to implement fiscal reforms and the tuition fees of higher education in colleges and universities was suggested. The main contents of this paper were as followed:1. The evolution of Chinese higher education financial management system. The general evolution of Chinese higher education management policy and the background of China's higher education cost sharing were introduced in this part.2. The theoretical definition of higher education cost and it's sharing. On the basis of introducing relevant theories, the constituent elements of the higher education cost sharing mechanism were given. That included six elements, such as the determined cost of higher education, the factors impacting higher education cost-sharing, the main bodies of higher education cost-sharing, the basis of higher education cost-sharing, the forms of higher education cost-sharing and the main bodies' sharing ratio of the higher education cost-sharing.3. The empirical research of higher education cost sharing. The current status and the existing problems of Chinese higher education cost sharing were revealed, through the empirical study of higher education cost sharing on home or broad in this part.4. The construction of higher education cost-sharing mechanism in accordance with Chinese situation. On the basis of theoretical and empirical research, the higher education cost-sharing mechanism in accordance with Chinese situation was constructed in this part. For this mechanism, the standard higher education cost, which was the value of education resources must be spent by the university to train a qualified student, made by relevant aspects of the school, based on technical indicators, should be as foundation; the tuition fees should made on the basis of the resident family disposable income and the students' employment; other main bodies besides government should share the higher education cost on the basis of the universities' own conditions; the government should be as the final bodies to share the higher education cost on the basis of the public financial income.5. Policy recommendations. This part gave some policy recommendations to promote the Chinese higher education cost-sharing mechanism, including: assessing the school condition to lay the foundation for implementing the standard cost; taking differential treatment; establishing the employment forecasting system, improving the student-loan system; improving relevant laws to encourage investment for college and university; improving the business capability of college and university; playing the main role of government investment; building comprehensive quality assessment system.
Keywords/Search Tags:university financial management system, standard cost, cost-sharing mechanism, policy recommendations
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