Efficiency of Public Policies for Higher Education: the Case of People's Republic of China

Abstract

This research performs the analysis of the main public policies for higher education in People's Republic of China between the period from 2003 to 2012, starting from a gap to be explored concerning the proposition of new public policies to assist in financing higher education worldwide, taking as reference practices already carried out in other country. When it comes to the methodological procedures, the study was designed as exploratory e quantitative, in which a group of public policies were statistically analyzed, using as reference the compound annual growth rate (CAGR), taking into account the investment made and the number of students attended in the period, in order to check the efficiency of each policy. The results showed a series of possibilities to promote the advancement of higher education worldwide, with examples of policies that can be replicated to other nations, and, therefore, assist them in their development.