The Independent Recruitment Reform in Higher Education Institutions:Motivations,Challenges,and Approaches

Impacted by governments,colleges and universities,the basic education,and the social public opinions,the independent recruitment reform is a significant change to higher education institutions,which need to meet requests of running independent schools and of improving the quality of education.Although the reform has increased the adaptability and selectivity of enrollment,it also created serious challenges to efficiency and equity.Independent Recruitment in key universities is not only unequal for rural students and the underprivileged,but also has problems of high cost and low efficiency.Furthermore,it cannot lessen vast pressures of middle school students. To promote the independent recruitment reform,we should adopt the following approaches: [1]to achieve a balanced development of elementary education and to enlarge the scale of selection pool by insisting scientific concepts of development;[2] to understand the reform thoroughly and therefore to balance requirements of higher education institutions and fundamental benefits of the country and society;[3]to improve recruitment approaches and efficiency;[4]to enhance social supervision and the guiding for public opinions,as well as to promote public trust in independent recruitment.