Since the liberation from the Japanese colony in 1945, the Korean education has achieved a remarkable development thanks to an enthusiasm zeal in a quantitative respect but is very inferior in the education quality management sector.
In the upcoming ...
Since the liberation from the Japanese colony in 1945, the Korean education has achieved a remarkable development thanks to an enthusiasm zeal in a quantitative respect but is very inferior in the education quality management sector.
In the upcoming world, the trend of globalization · openness will be increasingly getting accelerated and the logic of economics and competition, rather than a certain ideology or the political consideration, will be fiercely prevailing.
In the higher education field that is represented as a college, the elite-centered education by the sharing of information is shifting to the public-centered one and the functions as a creator and conveyor of information will be more strengthened.
In order to adapt to the transitional period, the fundamental reform of the Korean college society is required and the conversion of thought by a management method and the development of education · research method that reflects the trend of the times and the environment and facilities that support it are needed.
The educational facility of a college is a physical environment or a form of the space that is necessary for reaching the goal. That is to say, it is a physical environment or the groups of forms that are necessary for the members of the colleges in campus to do daily activities.
Legislated in 1955, 「The Standard Decree For Establishing College」offered an absolute criterion for the Korean college facilities along with the Decree for College Students' Number Quota. This Decree largely contributed to restraining the quantitatively indiscreet expansion of the colleges that showed the aspects that were flooded with the colleges at its enactment and maintaining the qualitative level at the minimum but was totally revised to deregulate the standard for colleges' facilities that did not respond in timely manner to them by the sharp increase of the students' number due to an implementation of the large-scale enlargement of the college students' number quota and the Graduating Students' Number Quota System in 1982. The Decree was partly revised by the abolishment of the Graduating Students' Number Quota System in 1987 and in order to enhance the colleges' qualitative level but on July 26, 1996 was abrogated by the legislation of 「Regulations for College Establishment · Operation」that allowed anybody who meets a certain standard for establishing an university to freely create the diverse college that is specified by the change of the various times around the education. The 「Regulations for College Establishment · Operation」legislated in 1996 allowed anybody who meets the standard for establishing the college to establish a diverse and specified university in accordance with the purpose for founding the university and its characteristics but in contrast to the initial policy goal that intended to create the diverse specified colleges, it yielded negative side effects that led to the ailing education environment by prejudicing the quantitative growth of the higher education. As a result, this Study aims to propose the revision bill of the 「Regulations for College Establishment · Operation」under the reality that encourages the private capital to take part in the educational research facilities, etc.
The participation in education by private capitals enabled us to expect the expansion of education · research facilities such as the dormitory, computing room, graduate school's research rooms and laboratories for research, etc. that many universities are reluctant to invest because of the financial difficulties until now.
It cannot be overemphasized that the future of a country relies on the education. Because education nurtures the human resources and conveys the knowledge and information. In particular, the 21st century is a knowledge-based society that knowledge, technology and information and the talented human resources determine the fate of a country. Korea that is short of endowed resources cannot but to depend on the skillful humans and as a result, the function of the college education that plays a pivotal role in creating knowledge and cultivating the talented personnel is getting increased.
In order for the colleges to secure their own autonomy and flexibly respond to the social change, above all, the high-level education is to be implemented. To enhance the qualitative level of the college education, the enforcement of requirement for the college facilities first is needed. In order to attain this goal, the 「Regulations for College Establishment · Operation」should be revised as follows:
First, both the regulation that the criterion for the professors and college site is differently applied based on one student by the university's department group and the division by department group should be abolished. Instead of dividing them by department group, it should be revised per one student in uniform or the division that is currently classified into 5 department groups should be reduced to within 3 department groups.
Second, the reclassification for the college facilities should be made. The computing room, experimental factory, dormitory and their peripheral facilities which are classified as the supporting facility until now should be reclassified as 「Basic Education Facility」from 「Supporting Facility」.
Also the laboratories for research or graduate school's research rooms which are classified as a research facility should be reclassified as a Basic Education Facility.
Third, the increase of the college budget cannot be solved in a short term and is to be achieved by a lasting effort in a long-term perspective. Therefore, in a short term, it is important for the college authority how to make use of the basic properties for revenues secured under the current situations and increase the revenue. In order to do so, the measures to reduce special value-added taxes occurred in the course of acquiring or disposing the real estates that the colleges currently hold should be taken. In addition to it, the college authority should actively make its efforts to secure the fund by aggressively making use of the asset that it holds. Because the sufficiently securing of the college finances is a short-cut to recruiting the competent professors and drawing the talented students.
In the course of proceeding with this Study, it was difficult to obtain the materials associated with the college finances. In the event of the national universities, I could analyze the materials by using many kinds of the yearly statistical books but in case of the private universities, as they even avoided to disclose the organization ratio per property type of the basic property for revenue, I only used the materials that were submitted to the National Assembly.
As such, the disclosure of the colleges in its real meaning should be made with the transparent society settled in by making the trustful College's Public Disclosure System and the College Declaration's Public Notice taken a root. Also, though the criterion for the college facility is changed, it cannot be retroactive but the discussions for making the existing colleges meet the criterion should be made.