| dc.description.abstract | On account of the rapid expansion of higher education since 1990, the competitive nature of universal education has decreased. Moreover, due to the fact that government
budget has become tight, the growth of funding in higher education has failed to keep up with the expansion of the colleges which decentralizes resource allocation.
Therefore, the ministry of education launched a series of competitive projects in order to build up the elimination mechanism to ensure the quality of higher education. There are two competitive projects from the ministry of education; one is the Teaching Excellence Project from 95 to 103 academic years and the other is the Top University
Project from 95 to 102 academic years.
In this study, I took these two plans as samples and used data on award-winning colleges which was analyzed by the panel data method to examine whether tournament theory can be applied in competitive projects or not.
Our empirical results confirm that the Tournament Theory actually exists in the competitive projects that show a convex relationship in funding structure. In addition,
the indicators affect the funding gap as well.
Some of the indicators in the Teaching Excellent Project include the ratio of dropout rate, the ratio of medical, engineering, and agriculture students, and whether set up the school of medicine, affect the funding gap. Moreover, it becomes stronger year by year that the increase in ratio of medical, engineering, and agriculture students shrinks the funding gap.
The other part is the Top University Project, we discovered that the ratio of assistant professor, associate professor and professor increase, and the universities in this project encourage faculty members to publish journal articles and corporate with companies actively can decrease the funding gap.
This study suggests that the ministry of education should extend more years on competitive projects and properly allocate funds to colleges rather than putting the
emphasis on quantitative indicators. This would allow for the appropriate allocation of the funding to every college in the project. | en_US |