市场扭曲与高等教育学费定价

Market Distortion and the Tuition Pricing of Higher Education

高等教育学费在一定程度上已经具有价格的某些功能,发挥着价格机制对教育资源的配置作用。但由于高等教育的巨大外部性,往往导致其市场扭曲,高等教育的学费定价不能完全按照等价交换原则来进行。高等教育收益的不可分割及其风险性、高等教育资源的稀缺及其垄断性、高等教育供需矛盾以及教育信息不对称等对学费定价有着不同的影响。规范政府和学校定价行为,改革政府学费规制是学费政策的现实选择。

The tuition of higher education has became the personal price performance of higher education in certain degrees and exert some certain functions of price mechanism. Because the higher education market distortion that tuition pricing cannot completely become market behaviour. Tuition pricing had been affacted by some factors such as the externality of higher education,the monopoly of higher education resources, the demand of higher education had lack elasticity, the informations among the market main part are asymmetric and the price regulation of government. Therefore it is a practical choose for the tuition pricing at present stage that government should effectively intervene the higher education market and supervise the tuition of higher education.