An Analysis Of Autonomous Enrollment Policy In The University Entrance Examination Reform

The university entrance examination is an important part of the education system. Being an important aspect of university entrance examination reformation, the enrollment system always attracts people's attention. In 2006, Fu Dan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University started the "ice-breaking journey", and the reformation of the autonomous enrollment policy once again became a popular topic. The public have discussed intensely on the autonomous enrollment reformation, but much of the discussion is limited in analyzing the advantage and the disadvantage of the reformation, or the ideal situation of the reformation. On the perspective of practice, this paper discusses the implementation of the autonomous enrollment policy. Combing with the different characteristics of different stages in the social development of China, this study explains the history of the enrollment system. On the basis of taking hold of policy development clue, the study takes a case on the autonomous recruitment of X University, analyses the background of the policy, content and the situations, and reflects on the problems. Moreover, comparing with the autonomous enrollment of The United States, the study gives suggestions to improve and refine the policy.This article argues that university enrollment system is inseparable from the history of the evolution of two major factors. First, changes in admissions policies can not be separated from social, political, and economic development and education development, as well as the impact of traditional culture; second, development of education itself affects the changes of policy. In other words, evolution of university enrollment system is the consequence of the higher education's adjustment to the outer and inner environmental changes. The case of autonomous enrollment on X University shows that it has improvements on the situation of "one test set for life", extending the autonomy of universities, the evaluations of examination, diversification of selection methods and the mode of selection. However, many problems are put forward, such as the ambiguous attitude of the students towards policy, questioning to the fairness of the policy and the ineffectiveness of policy. Furthermore, giving full play to the function of university entrance examination, and the relationship between universities and the government are also important issues. In addition, this article also analyzes the characteristics of the college entrance system in United States and gets some enlightenment. In the current situation of our country, the ultimate goal of the reformation is to set up a recruitment system combining with unified recruitment tests and multi-recruitments, so that not only most people can have the rights to have higher education, but also they can meet the social development of the multi-demand. At the same time, extending the scope of the pilot institutions, effectively opening up test results, establishing professional education test organization, and carrying out supporting are also the important aspects of the reformation.