The City-country Difference Of The Opportunity To Accept Higher Education

The fairness of higher education includes the fairness of the start, the process and the result. At present, the fairness of the start, which refers to equal opportunity to enter higher school, is highly anticipated by people, while the city-country difference of the opportunity to accept higher education become a hot topic of discussion under the background of binary economic structure. Therefore, as the higher education is being popularized, the background of binary economic structure. Therefore, as the higher education is being popularized, the research on the difference of opportunity to enter higher school for city and country students before and after the recruitment expanding, has its deep theories and realistic meaning doubtlessly.To measure the difference of the quantity of the students to enter higher school in city and in country through the study of the number of signing up and recruiting, it can be found that the difference as greater before the expanding and smaller after it; to measure the difference of the quality of the opportunity to accept higher education for the city students and the country students through the study of their difference in choosing school, choosing mayor and choosing area to study in, it was found that the city students are more concentrated in the top schools in the districts where the economy has been highly developed and they study in more popular majors. As the binary economic structure continues to exist, the difference in the quantity and quality of the city and country students' accepting higher education will exist for quite a long time in our country, but it is being changed toward the quality difference from the quantity difference.The existence of difference of opportunity to enter higher school for city and country students is of its deep social background and some reasons from the education itself and the quality of the students. As to the social background, the binary economic structure not also led to the great difference in the income and social capital between city and country. All the difference influenced the equality of opportunity to accept higher education ; as to he education itself, there is great difference in the investment of foundation education between city and country, and there are still problems in the recruitment system, which are factors influencing the equality of the opportunity; as to the students themselves, their quality varies with the surroundings, including the things they contact with and the culture resources of their families.To alleciate the difference of opportunity to accept higher education between city students and country students, we have to break the binary structure, contract the margin of the investments in foundation education in city and in country, reform the recruitment system, so that we cam assure a fair education system and push forward the build of social harmony of socialism.