Analysis And Evaluation On University Autonomous Recruitment Policy In China

This paper analyzes and evaluates autonomous recruitment of universities in China since 2001 .The reform of higher education system is accompanied with socio-economic reforms. And the autonomous recruitment policy is a critical part of the reform. After a review of the history of university recruitment system in China, this paper uses the method of public policy analysis to analyze the problems below: the goals, effects and flaws of the policy; the effectiveness, efficiency, equity and feasibility of the Autonomous Enrollment in Fudan University as a policy adjustment. There are three ideas behind this education policy: people's all-round development, university autonomy and education equity. The. prospect of the policy and measures which should be taken to improve the policy are also discussed in this paper.This paper argues that evolution of university recruitment system in China is the consequence of the higher education's adjustment to the inner and outer environmental changes. This policy of university autonomous recruitment is distinctive from the university independent recruitment in early 20th century, admission based on recommendation policy and autonomous recruitment with tuitions in several universities in Shanghai in 1990s. It has several flaws and limitations in view of the universities, high schools and students. The case of Autonomous Enrollment in Fudan University and Shanghai Jiaotong University is a policy adjustment in order to improve the flaws and limitations. This paper evaluates Fudan's Autonomous Enrollment from four dimensions: effectiveness, efficiency, equity and feasibility, and shows that it has improvements on enrollment criteria, universities' rights and equity. But it hasproblems like high costs, limitation of enrollment objects, and the credibility of interviews. Then this paper analyzes the three ideas supporting the university autonomous recruitment policy: people's all-round development, university autonomy and education equity, discussing whether these ideas are realized in the seven-year enforcement of the policy, and how to realize them in the future. This paper argues that the ultimate goal of the reform is to set up a recruitment system combined with unified recruitment tests and multi-recruitments. Measures should be taken in order to achieve this goal. Typical methods include increasing the autonomous rights of universities, establishing professional education test organizations, changing the education development mode and carrying out supporting reforms.