چکیده:
Theoretical analyses and empirical evidence suggest that the current higher education financing system in Iran and the mechanism of government subsidy payments to it are not very desirable and require rethinking and reinvention. But what is the desirable system and mechanism, and what system and mechanism is suitable for Iran's higher education system? The aim of the present article is to answer these questions and propose a suitable system and mechanism for Iran. To achieve the aforementioned goal, various financing systems and mechanisms and their goodness criteria were first identified through qualitative meta-analysis; then, within the framework of different financing systems, ten mechanisms were evaluated based on six goodness criteria using the 'Analytic Hierarchy Process' method. The evaluation results show that the best mechanism for allocating financial resources to higher education in the world is providing income-contingent loans to students within the framework of the higher education services market. At the end of the article, based on the market system and the aforementioned mechanism, an appropriate method for paying subsidies to higher education in Iran is presented.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Selecting the Appropriate Mechanism and Method for Allocating Public Resources to Higher Education 2 1 Yaghoub Entezari and Hassan Mahjoub Abstract Theoretical analyses and empirical evidence suggest that the current higher education financing system in Iran and the mechanism of government subsidy payments to it are not very desirable and require rethinking and reinvention.
The evaluation results show that the best mechanism for allocating financial resources to higher education in the world is providing income-contingent loans to students within the framework of the higher education services market.
free in universities, in addition to the academic decline of students and the deterioration of learning quality, causes the waste of time and material resources by students and academics and, as a result, leads to the economic inefficiency of higher education institutions and the low effectiveness of human capital (knowledge institutionalized within individuals).
The first column of Table 2 shows that for the development of the private sector in a higher education system, the best mechanism [among the ten major mechanisms] is "giving coupons to students for registration in universities and higher education institutions"; while the figures in other columns indicate that to achieve the goals of "increasing access to higher education", "improving equality of access for different social strata to higher education" and "increasing individual, organizational, and national efficiency", the best mechanism is "providing loans to students with repayment conditional on income earned after graduation".
To improve this situation, the government can move from the supply-side approach of allocating financial resources toward the demand-side approach 12 and limit its direct aid to higher education institutions to the fixed costs of development budgets and provide other aids through students.
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