Analysis Of Chinese Family’s Investment In Higher Education

Since China has determined the cost -sharing education system in the last century 90’s, China has made tremendous development. With the vigorous development of higher education in China, the scale of education at all levels has expanded rapidly, and the total spending on education has grown substantially as well. With the total investment in higher education increased continously, the structure of investment in education are also changed significately. It is shown that the edcation cost tilt to individuals and families and residents expenditure on education is increased significantly. With the improvement of social development and the need of higher education, the relationship between education, individual, family and sociaty becomes more and more close. The rapid growth of spending in high education in China since the last 10 years has cause widespread concern of publics.In this paper, to the status quo of China’s Investment in Higher Education analysis of the family as its title, from the rational choice theory, on the family investment in higher education were investigated. Besides forward and Conclusion, there are 5 parts in this paper: Introduction, analysis of the basic motive of Chinese Family investment in high education, analysis of present situation of Chinese family high education, affection and problems in Chinese family investment in high education, suggestion and solution of Chinese family investment in high education.At the same time when high education has developed quickly in China, there are some problems taken place. For example, universities and colleges charge more and more tuition fee, especially under the policy that China has developed education in order to stimulate domestic demand in recent years, many universities and colleges have expanded scale of and charge more tuition fee. Meanwhile, the rapid growth of China’s domestic investment in higher education expenditure also produced some negative effects.In view of the above questions, the article raised a problem in Chapter One, which elaborated the background of the topic, the emphasis and difficulty of the research, the possible innovation spot, and the significance and goal of the research, and also point research techniques and main idea.It inquires four basic motives into Chinese family education investment on the higher education in Chapter Two, which including the influence of traditional idea, the growing employment pressure, the obvious treatment gap in urban and rural residents’ public resources and the government’s policy-oriented. Chapter Three discusses the status of Chinese family education investment in several aspects, such as the proportion of higher education fees in Chinese residents’ income, willingness to invest and ability to pay with Chinese family education investment, the higher education cost-sharing in developed country, the comparison of the family higher education investment between China and other developing countries, and the status of Chinese tuition fees’ level at the forefront of the world.Started with the conflict between high charge and citizens’ limited affordability, Chapter Four discusses the influence and problem on Chinese family education investment on the higher education from five facets, such as the entrance equality for different family, significant individual and regional differences made by different choice on higher education investment, educational investment risks caused by severe employment, and poverty by receiving education may lead to social unbalance.According to above problems, Chapter Five puts forward some suggestions and measures on Chinese family education investment, which is based on summing up the state of Chinese family education investment and higher education cost-sharing forms and the features of tuition receiving in some representative countries. This chapter also has five aspects: government increasing financial input on colleges and universities, colleges and universities extending revenue by multi-channel, education charge being priced reasonably to make sure the rational sharing of higher education cost, several suggestions on family’s justified higher education investment strategies, and the proposal to add the community financing on higher education.