Enrollment expansion in colleges and universities is an old problem that has been controversial and criticized in recent years. The enrollment expansion of colleges and universities affects all levels of society. Here I will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of expanding enrollment from my personal point of view.
Benefits of enrollment expansion:
1, improve the enrollment rate of senior high school, and let more students realize their college dreams.
In the era of planned economy, the state can allocate jobs, so being admitted to a university is equivalent to getting an "iron rice bowl" and becoming a national cadre. People think that the college entrance examination is the best way out; For children in rural areas, the college entrance examination is the only choice to "jump out of the farm". The idea of "learning to be an excellent official" has been circulated for thousands of years and has been well reflected in the era of planned economy. Now, with the rapid expansion of university enrollment, the threshold is getting lower and lower, and the enrollment rate of high school continues to rise, so it is no longer difficult to enter ordinary universities. Relevant data show that in 2003, the admission rate in Beijing reached 70.8%, while that in Guangdong remained the same as that in 2002, with 56.47% in Shaanxi, 70% in Jiangsu, 62% in Jiangxi and 64% in Hubei. As can be seen from the above data, the admission rate of college entrance examination is relatively large. Now parents, students and high schools are no longer concerned about whether they can go to college, but what kind of university they go to.
2. The expansion of university enrollment can cultivate talents for the society.
China's socialist modernization has experienced a process from poverty to initial completion, with twists and turns in the middle, until its rapid growth, and its GDP has been in the forefront of the world for many years. In this period, it is necessary to cultivate all kinds of knowledge-based and skilled talents. This is the general trend. Japan in1960s and Korea in1980s all experienced this process. With the development of China, it will take a long time to transform from an extensive and outsourcing-oriented world processing base to a technology-driven intelligent export country. Therefore, the enrollment expansion in colleges and universities is not only a system for selecting talents, but also the general trend. It has a far-reaching and potential impact on improving the overall quality of the people, and it also "slowly shakes" our lives in different aspects of society.
3. Develop the economy and stimulate domestic demand.
In recent years, China's national economic development has entered a trough, especially the impact of the Asian financial crisis, which has led to problems such as weak market and disappearance of consumption hotspots, while higher education has been in short supply. With the development of economy and the improvement of people's living standards, this contradiction has become increasingly acute. Therefore, the academic circles call for vigorously developing the scale of China's higher education in order to stimulate domestic demand, form new economic growth points and promote economic growth. The implementation of this policy has expanded and developed the education industry, making education a hot investment industry, increasing people's investment and consumption in education, increasing the number of education practitioners and promoting the development of education-related industries.
4. Realize the staged leap of educational development.
Martin Trow, an American educational sociologist and professor at Berkeley University, takes the development of higher education in the United States and post-war western European countries as the research object, and discusses the relationship between quantity growth and nature change with the gross enrollment rate of higher education as the index, and divides the development history of higher education into three stages: elite, popularization and popularization. He believes: "Elite higher education in some countries will not change its nature until its scale is expanded to provide learning opportunities for about 15% of school-age youth. When it reaches 15%, the nature of the higher education system begins to change and turn to mass; If this transformation is successful, mass higher education can develop to a certain scale until its capacity reaches 50% of the school-age population, without changing its nature. When it exceeds 50%, that is, when higher education begins to become popular rapidly, it will inevitably innovate the higher education model. " Therefore, the large-scale enrollment expansion in China is also a measure to promote the development stage of education and let more school-age youth enjoy education.