中国高等教育大众化及其后续效应

China’s Higher Education Massification and Its Follow-up Effect

我国高等教育大众化并不是高等教育系统自然演化的结果,而是政府临时突然启动的。高等教育规模之所以能够实现快速扩张,原因在于中央政府为此进行了广泛的政治动员,地方政府围绕提高本省域高等教育毛入学率而开展激烈竞争。高等教育规模的快速扩张产生了高等教育质量问题、高等教育公平问题、大学生就业问题以及高校庞大的贷款等后续效应。未来十年,生源持续下降将再一次改变我国高等教育结构。

China’s higher education massification is not the natural evolution of higher education system but a sudden policy pushed by central government.Due to the extensive political mobilization by central government and severe gross enrollment rate competition of local governments,China’s higher education witnessed a shaking speed of expansion.The quick expansion of China’s higher education has created some follow-up effects such as education quality,education equity,graduate employment and huge loans.The constant decrease of entrance college students will change the structure of China’s higher education in the next 10 years.