The Reform to “Delegate Powers, Improve Regulation, and Strengthen Services” in Higher Education: The Dilemma and Its Solution(PDF)
《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2022年01期
- Page:
- 37-46
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- Title:
- The Reform to “Delegate Powers, Improve Regulation, and Strengthen Services” in Higher Education: The Dilemma and Its Solution
- Author(s):
- YAO Rong
- Keywords:
- higher education sphere; reform to “delegate powers; improve regulation; and strengthen services”; administrative decentralization; prescriptivism; functionalism
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- Abstract:
- In recent years, in order to break through the institutional barriers restricting the reform and development of higher education, and to activate the vitality of colleges and universities to operate independently according to the needs of society and in accordance with the law, the central government has issued a series of new policies on the reform to “delegate powers, improve regulation, and strengthen services” in the field of higher education. However, bound by the pattern of the distribution of administrative power and the tradition of internal administrative relations, this reform is still facing the following dilemma: on the one hand, the government is unable to delegate powers, and on the other the higher education institutes are unable to assume the delegated powers. The central and local education-related departments and universities have divergent interests and conflicting ideas about the reform, which has directly resulted in insufficient reform willingness, lack of substantial breakthroughs, and institutional space constraints, which reflect the disadvantages and limitations of the “policy-driven” reform model. At present, it is urgent to coordinate the two reform approaches of prescriptivism and functionalism to promote the transformation of the power distribution between the government and the university from an administrative decentralization to a legal and functional decentralization, so as to achieve the coordinated improvement of the government’s ability to effectively supervise and the universities’ ability to effectively govern in accordance with the law, and ultimately to solve the dilemma mentioned above.
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