On the School-running Autonomy of Higher Learning Institutions under the Circumstance of Social Transformation
ZHANG Zhiguo1,WANG Haibo2,CUI Guoping1
(1 Editorial Department of Forum of statistics and Information, Xi’an Financial Institute, Xi’an 710061; 2 Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education, Xi’an 710003, Shaanxi)
Abstract:
With the rapid development of economy, politics, culture, allround transformation of society and higher education, the relationship between higher learning institutions and government needs urgently to safely dealt with. This is because it is the most essential of relations of higher learning institutions with the outside world. An analytic prediction of the trend of the relationship between higher learning institutions and government shows that revision and completion of the Statute of Higher Education should a winwin action to regularizing the relationship between higher learning institutions and government and establishing a servicetype and limitedreliability government, that expansion of schoolrunning autonomy of higher learning institutions is a necessary direction of future development of higher education to set up a constitution of universities to assure a smooth implementation of reforming the system, and that development of educational intermediary organizations is of the greatest importance to regularizing the relationship between higher learning institutions and government so as to nurture an atmosphere of fair competition. The expansion of schoolrunning autonomy of higher learning institutions should be actualized by following the following steps: the organ of the Party’ committee be determined based on the school state and innerParty democracy; the secretary of the Party committee be elected according the existing law and regulations; the president be elected by following a democratic procedure and the executive branches fully respect the president’ will; government’ investment to higher learning institutions be legalized and gaps between regions and subordination be narrowed down; reformation of the system be attempted in some state universities to softening government’ financial pressure; tuitions of students of different type and hierarchy be differentiated.
KeyWords:
higher learning institutions; government; administration of higher education; servicetype government; schoolrunning autonomy; constitution of higher learning institutions; educational intermediary organization