Credit Pricing and Resource Allocation in Higher Education.doc

Credit Pricing and Resource Allocation in Higher Education Abstract With the expansion of the size of colleges and universities to “credit” reforms carried out in colleges and universities as an opportunity charging system innovation and credits differential pricing model catalyst of educational resources of colleges and universities integration process, and gradually rise to the follow the “efficiency first” principle educational resources, “the efficiency of allocation” mechanism to promote the development of colleges and universities. Along with the deepening credit the practice of reform and the reform of experience on foreign abandon it, the credit system under the condition of student’s “freedom of choice” to college curriculum management, faculty management, student management, charge management, logistics services, and management presents a major challenge . Deepen the reform of the credit system will inevitably touch on credit charges, credit costs, credit pricing mechanisms, resource allocation, education, competition, and other major issues, which are on the university management, especially financial management of new problems. 1, the Credit System Reform and Institutional Innovation Credit fees Credit system is the flexibility to adapt to individual differences in student teaching programs, “free choice” is a fundamental characteristic. Based on the “credits for a unit measuring the amount of student learning in order to obtain the minimum credits for graduation standards for the teaching system.” College is to provide a variety of educational services “education supermarket”, each educational service to “credit” as the unit of measurement. Students in the scope of state and school regulations and standards, it can be according to their physical, social and educational services require knowledge of the curriculum and the “credit” to make flexible and varied selection, portfolio and adjust it. It has changed the higher education service