The Study On External Accountability Of Higher Education In The UK

Since the 1980 s, along with the continuous development of the higher education market, the world of higher education management have been changed, governments are gradually completed higher education from "management" to "governance" changes. To ensure the quality of higher education, "Accountability" as a concept of management education management process was introduced in Europe and America, and to play an important role.The UK has a world-class higher education, its long history, a sound system greatly influenced the process of change in the market. Through 30 years of exploration, the current UK has formed external accountability and internal accountability would like to combine the governance of higher education. External accountability mechanisms which covers the key elements of quality assessment, cost accounting, performance evaluation and other higher education institutions in the external sound accountability system to ensure the quality of UK higher education, while promoting the interests of stakeholders in higher education understand and grasp the situation.Teaching and research as the two basic tasks of higher education institutions account for a large proportion of external accountability, the establishment of specialized institutions to ensure accountability work of professional and objective review and adopt the text field visits can be a combination of ensure comprehensive accountability; Costing helps higher education institutions to grasp a certain stage of operations, help them achieve the best business results in limited financial appropriations; Performance evaluation as an important part of performance management, can help stakeholders to fully grasp the performance of higher education institutions, higher education institutions to promote more rational development plan for public higher education more features.China is a big country of education, higher education in the deepening of the market today, if we can not positively change the educational management, change "management" to "governance", higher education itself will not get a long-term development, not to vibrant. Understand the specific practices in the UK external of accountability in higher education, have a choice to learn their advanced experience, external accountability mechanisms to build higher education with Chinese characteristics is an urgent need to address the issue in academia.