China's Higher Education System Innovation

With the expansion of university, the employment situation of the graduates is becoming more and more severe, moreover, after 5 years of expansion, facing shortage of teaching resources and big gap between Chinese and western universities, it is really necessary to introspect Chinese higher education, how should Chinese higher education fix it's own position? What's the relation among university, student and the labor market? This article tries to seek the answer to higher education 's system innovation from the point of market nature of higher education and it's relativity with the labor market. The content consists of 4 chapters:In chapter 1, this article sets the direction of higher education market, pointing out the necessity of education's facing market. The importance of our research lies in Introducing competition regime into higher education market, which will in turn promote the development of higher education .The Pressure of higher education 's system innovation comes from two aspects: higher education market and labor market, therefore we need to consider higher education market itself, as well as it's relativity with labor market. The theory basis of the article are marketrization theory, labor capital theory, market theory and production theory, in this chapter, we also give a review of other scholars' research results.In chapter 2, this article analyzes the present condition of Chinese higher education, firstly, we elaborate the nature of higher education, pointing out that higher education has dual characteristics of consumption and investment, secondly, we analyze the present condition of Chinese higher education and it's characteristics, in total amount analysis, we use data and make a short and a long analysis for supply and demand of higher education .Our conclusion is that Chinese higher education is Selling party market which is demand excesses supply.In chapter 3, this article analyzes the relativity of higher education market and labor market, which mainly embody in the influence of labor market on higher education demand. We discuss the influence of labor market on higher education market from 3 aspects: actual rate of return level, the influence of labor market on higher education demand, the influence of labor market on higher education contents.In chapter 4, this article gives several suggestions to higher education 's systeminnovation. We think that the key of higher education's system innovation lies in define the reasonable function scope of government and market. Excessive intervention will decrease efficiency, while introducing market Mechanism will increase efficiency. So in higher education market, the function of the government is to control higher education's supply and demand macroscopically, while the function of market is to control higher education's supply and demand microscopically. Aiming at the problems of current higher education, we give some suggestions: establish and support the equal competition environment, realize diversification of education corpus, give the students larger option, promote the formation of competition consciousness, subdivide the market, realize diversification of education service, renew higher education investment system, strengthen the government function of information service, provide public, transparent and accurate market information etc.