A Study On The Problem Of Sufficient Supply Of Educational Resources

Based on the problems of the educational resources supply in our country and the characteristics of the supply of educational resources, this paper explore the ways to achieve sufficiency supply of educational resources by answering how to realize adequate supply.Firstly, this paper builds up the framework of adequate supply of educational resources. The characteristics of education can be identified from the connotation and function of education. The scarcity of resource requires sufficient supply of educational resources, and the attributes of public goods, public welfare and inclusive education requires fair supply of education resources to guarantee educational opportunities and rights of every member.On the aspect of the adequacy of educational resource supply, the adequacy of educational resource supply is the most basic guarantee for the goal of equity and efficiency. And it is affected by the stage of economic development, government’s emphasis on it as well as its supply channels. Using the panel data of 22 counties from1998 to 2002, this paper analyzes the influence factors of the adequate of education resources supply by Panel-VAR model. The empirical study result find that government’s emphasis on education, diversification of educational resource supply channels and the stage of economic development have a significant positive impact on the adequacy of education resources. Impulse response and variance decomposition show that while the stage of economic development has a more lasting influence on the adequacy of education resources and the diversification of educational resource supply channels can greatly enhance it, the influence of government’s emphasis on education is limited and restricted by the stage of economic development.International comparisons of the adequacy of education resources is also made.