| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 非營利事業管理研究所 === 93 === The 21st century is an era of knowledge-based economics with abrupt social transitions, pluralistic values, and rapid changes in industrial structure. University education always plays a major role in leading national development and promoting competitiveness. In recent years the situation has been changed. The opening of markets in accordance with the WTO and other types of issues are impacting domestic higher education. Hence, the Ministry of Education’s White Paper on university education policy indicates that pursuing excellence and promoting knowledge competition are still the priorities of university development. Under pressure from international competition, universities should carefully select their key development directions, in order to survive and also help promote national competitiveness.
The number of domestic universities has already reached saturation, with the supply of university education surpassing demand. In the future, the authorities of higher education administration must adopt market liberalization policies, and will no longer be responsible for the operational quality of private colleges. Therefore, through the mechanism of free market competition, this will establish an attrition mechanism, so private college operations will face more challenges.The trustees of private colleges, in a situation wherein there are more seekers for dwindling government funds, also are encountering a society of fewer children, and under the premise that the difficulty of enrolling new students plus the resulting tuition and miscellaneous fees not being enough to grant them total autonomy, they face the development of competition and a key life-or-death moment. Because of this, private colleges, which are responsible for cultivating the majority of college graduates, urgently need to consider resource integration, and to further seek cooperative mechanisms and resource integration through strategic alliances between government, industry, various educational groups and private colleges, in order to establish a “win-win” situation.
“A strong country cannot depend on luck”: whether a country will be strong or not depends on the success of its elite higher education. Private colleges accept the responsibility of higher education no less than do public universities. The government should strengthen the competitive advantages of private colleges, not by expanding the number of private colleges, but by putting forth effort to integrate resources, and seeking to promote quality. This purpose of this research is to discuss the background, current operational situation, and the development of private colleges, and to study a possible cooperative mechanism to integrate resources between colleges, and to maximize resource effectiveness, promote the quality of teaching and research, and strengthen the college’s international competitiveness.
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