On The Necessity And Policy Guidance Of The Development Of Education Industry

It has great significance of strengthening the understanding of education industry, to understand the relationship between education and economics, education and socialism modernization construcfion, to adapt education to socialism market economic mechanism, and to deepen the reform of education. The putting forward of the issue of education industry has its own external inevitability as it comes from education practice. On one hand, it is the need of the practical social economic problems for special functions of education, and to solve effectively the problem of lacking of education outlay through the organic cooperation of education with social economic development. On the other hand, to promote the reform of education and gain great progress through the development of education industry. Education industry has several characteristics. The acknowledgement of these characteristics is the precondition of the management and development of education industry. Analyzed from the social economic development and education development level, the emphasis of the development of education industry is the non-compulsory education phase. Higher education, adult education, professional education and even employee education have great potentials of development and can exert certain influence in the development of education industry. The creation of favorable policy environment is needed in the development of education industry, which should obey the rules of market economy, and take advantage of economic methods. The support of legal assurance for the development should be in top-down sequence.