University Government Society: Multidimensional Guarantee of Higher Education Quality

Abstract

It is essential to establish a multi-element quality assurance entity consisting of government, society and school. As the entity of running school, universities shall arouse the education and teaching enthusiasm of teachers, stress student-orientated and highlight students’ experience and feeling, plays the management staff’s role of system guarantee and condition guarantee. Government shall change the management function, reduce the authorization and approval matters for universities’ running of school, mainly play the roles of “navigatorâ€, “controller†and “patronâ€, start the building of national higher education quality assurance data information platform, legally ensure the financial investment in higher education. Society shall fully play roles of “supplierâ€, “direction instrument†and “supervisorâ€, build accountability system and relatively independent intermediary organizations of education assessment, utilize public opinions to urge and promote universities to put the problems reflected by public opinions on the agenda and solve them. This paper can not only provides basic information for other theoretical research, and provides theoretical guidance for practical exploration, but also provides basic information for the international comparative study of the quality assurance of higher education. With the establishment and improvement of socialist market economy system and the deepening of higher education management system reform, the mode that the higher education quality was fully guaranteed by government in the past has not met the need of new situation. Accordingly, “it is essential to establish a multi-element quality assurance entity consisting of government, society and schoolâ€[1] and “establish a new mode that the macro-quality control by government, quality regulation by society and quality management by universities organically coordinate with each other and run smoothly.â€[2]