Departmental Selfishness of Market: The Core and Nature of the Policy of University Autonomy

Abstract

University autonomy is a common and influential policy in higher education adopted by government in the paradigm of decentralization.By analyzing the value of university autonomy and factual estimation about its activity,we find that the core value of university autonomy mainly embody competition,choice,paramount,equivalence exchange,quality,efficiency and effectiveness,accountability,loosing control and decentralizing decision,pluralizing of origin financing,alteration of model of government imbursement,sharing in cost and user paying,which reveal the values of market.Therefore,department selfishness of market is the nature of university autonomy.