(1) Improve the enrollment rate of senior high schools and let more students realize their college dreams. Going to college used to be equivalent to getting an iron rice bowl. With the rapid expansion of university enrollment and the rising enrollment rate, it is not difficult to enter ordinary universities.

(2) Improve the national quality, improve academic qualifications and narrow the gap with foreign education.

(3) Postpone the time of initial employment and ease the employment pressure. Nowadays, the population is particularly large, and education can keep more people in school, reduce the number of employed people and reduce the employment pressure.

(4) Developing economy and stimulating domestic demand. In recent years, China's national economic development has entered a trough, and the scale of China's higher education has developed greatly, thus stimulating domestic demand, forming new economic growth points and promoting economic growth.

(5) Realizing the staged leap of educational development. China's large-scale enrollment expansion and the promotion of education development stage are measures to let more school-age young people enjoy education.

Disadvantages of university enrollment expansion:

(1) The first problem brought by the enrollment expansion policy is the decline of education quality and the lack of infrastructure.

(2) At the same time, the lack of teachers leads to a sharp decline in the quality of school teaching. Taking Hunan as an example, from 1998 to 2005, the number of college students increased by 4.2 times, while the number of teachers only increased by 2. 1 times.

(3) Objectively, the enrollment expansion policy distorts the supply and demand system of college graduates, which directly leads to the decline of the employment rate and salary of college students.

Extended data:

Background of university enrollment expansion:

1992, Deng Xiaoping's southern tour speech, positively affirmed the reform, opening up and market economy. Large-scale reorganization of state-owned enterprises began, and state-owned enterprises with poor management closed down one after another.

The government began to reduce staff and the state-owned enterprises were restructured, so it was impossible for state-owned enterprises to accept college students on a large scale as before, so at 1996, the state began a pilot project of two-way free employment. By 1998, the national system of assigning jobs to college students was basically abolished, and more than 70% of college graduates chose their own jobs that year.

At the same time, from 1992 to 1998, due to the reform of state-owned enterprises and market economy, a large number of unemployed people (called laid-off workers in China) appeared in China. Among them, 1997 laid-off workers nationwide 2 1 15000.

Economically, in the early 1990s, China's economy was overheated and the inflation rate was extremely high. Zhu Rongji began to cool down the overheated economy, which is also known as a soft landing. Through the soft landing of 1993- 1996, the inflation rate was successfully reduced from 65438+24. 1% in 0994 to 8.3% in 1996, but at the same time, the economic growth rate also slowed down significantly and domestic demand was weak.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-University Enrollment Expansion