Abstract:

China’s higher education on the policy level there is a fierce sorting competition, which is mainly manifested as parallel competition driven by resources and self-competition driven by development, reflecting catch-up and transcendence respectively. At the same time, the extraordinary response of low-level decision-makers to higher-level policies further accelerates competition. Multiple policy logics work together to shape sorting competition: in terms of decision-making, the urgent need for higher education in the economic and social development of the latecomer countries promotes the catch-up policy agenda. In terms of response, the new landmark of higher education competition with the transformation and reshaping of the performance view has stimulated the enthusiasm of the bottom. In terms of secondary decision, the fuzziness to alleviate the conflict is conducive to the autonomy of the underlying number writing. Sorting competition is conducive to the efficient implementation of policies, but it should also be vigilant about the policy distortion under the layer on layer and the fairness problem under the Matthew effect, so as to avoid China's higher education into the dilemma of low-quality development. In the future, policymaking should pursue substantive data growth and cumulative development, move from policy competition to win-win co-operation, and from instrumental rationality to value rationality.

Key words: higher education policy, sorting competition, connotation