The goals for regulating college tuition

Abstract

Regulation refers to governmental restrictions over enterprise in order to protect public interest. Research on governmental regulation in China primarily focuses on public utility, and inadequate attention has been paid to regulating college tuition. Currently, although the educational administrative agencies have successfully kept college tuition at the level of the year 2000, the governmental regulation on tuition has not achieved the effects expected because it has not been able to lower college tuition to the level that the public is willing to accept, and it has not established any internal scientific management system in colleges. The ultimate goal of college regulation should be establishing a healthy order among various social groups. After tuition is capped, the priority for constructing a scientific college management system is to define the goals for governmental regulation on college tuition. A feasible option for now is to replace cost analysis with intervention institutions and to improve the situation of asymmetric information.

摘要

管制是政府为了社会公共利益而对企业行为加以约束的做法。 中国对管制的研究主要集中于公共事业, 对大学收费的管制研究还很不够。 目前中国教育行政部门虽已成功地将学费标准控制在2000 年的水平, 但管制的效果不佳, 既没有达成令公众接受的大学收费标准, 也没有建立科学的大学内部管理制度。 政府管制的最终目标应是建立健康的秩序, 在收费上限基本控制住以后, 系统思考政府对大学收费管制的目标, 是建立大学运行秩序首先需要面对的问题。 目前比较可行的目标, 是利用成本分析模板代替完整的成本核算标准和改变信息不对称状态。