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The ideal types, reform trends and enlightenment of higher education quality assurance regulation system |
YAO Rong |
(Institute of Higher Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China) |
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Abstract For a long time, the quality assurance of higher education relies on the establishment of academic autonomy and selfdiscipline mechanism, and is controlled by peer review mechanism and reputation mechanism. However, due to the scale expansion of higher education and the transformation of national political and economic system, that this traditional academic selfregulation system can guarantee and improve the quality of higher education has begun to be widely questioned. Three types of higher education quality assurance regulatory systems including the private regulation system aiming for the interests of the academic community, the marketbased regulation system based on risk and standards, and the government regulation system based on the performance responsibility logic have been established in succession. These three regulatory systems have different regulatory logic and characteristics in terms of formulation of regulatory standards, information gathering and behavioral correction mechanisms. The experience of regulatory practice shows that there are flaws in the regulatory system that tends to selfregulation and state regulation. Based on the appeal for the dialectical unity of academic freedom and public interests, all three regulatory systems have begun to emphasize the organic integration of autonomy and the rule of law, selfdiscipline and heteronomy, and present a trend of change in cooperative regulation. The reform of China′s higher education quality assurance regulation system should be on the principles, thinking, and methods of the rule of law, and strengthen the rule of law governing public power in order to achieve cooperation and balance between national supervision and university autonomy.
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