Research On The Core Competence Of Non - Governmental Institutions Of Higher Learning

Fruitful reforms have been made by China in systems of educational management, school-running and educational investment with constant progress in educational system reform since opening up, which promotes China’s non-government funded higher institutions in number and scope with rapid achievements. This kind of institution has become an important component in China’s higher education. The establishment of the institutions has relieved effectively the shortage of resources in Chinese education and played a fundamental role in advancing China’s popularization of education. Under current market situation, the competition amid higher institutions, esp. those non-government funded ones, is ever-increasingly serious. Survival of the fittest in the market is quite impressive, which means institutions with superior competitiveness are expanding while those without the superiority are shrinking or even shutting down. It is important, therefore, to study how to promote the core competitiveness for the healthy development of the non-government funded higher institutions.Taking the core competitiveness as a base and the non-government funded higher institutions as subjects, this paper covers interviews, surveys and comparisons of higher institutions in Shaanxi to analyze the target system of assessment on core competitiveness amid higher institutions. The system includes academic competence, resource integration and management. It is held that the major elements which affect the core competitiveness are single funding resource, adjustment and optimization of governance structure, unclear positioning, lack of strong assistance in faculty development, weak build-up in programs and subjects, campus culture, student competency and long-term mechanism for employment. Following qualitative and quantitative analysis, this paper points out route selections for upgrading core competitiveness in non-government funded higher institutions which are the widening funding, management innovation and governance promotion, featured positioning and highlight, human capital investment, faculty development, reasonable program offering, build-up of featured subject group, unique college culture, communications, coherence of excellent perspective students and construction of highly effective system in career guide.