A Study of the Spatial and Temporal Evolution of China's Higher Education Input Efficiency
Focusing on improving the efficiency of China's higher education inputs and promoting the construction of a strong higher education country,31 provinces in China are selected as the research objects,the full-time teachers,fixed assets and education funds of higher education institutions are taken as the input indicators,four types of outputs of higher education are selected in accordance with the logical framework of"talent cultivation-scientific and technological achievements-social services",and environmental variables are screened from the level of economic development,the strength of government support and the degree of openness to the outside world,so as to conduct an in-depth analysis of China's higher education input efficiency in 2017-2021 with the help of the three-stage DEA model.The results of the study show that China's higher education input efficiency is overall high in the initial stage,revealing that the higher education system has achieved some success in resource allocation and management and technology.Further stochastic frontier(SFA)analysis shows that an increase in the proportion of regional GDP and total import and export to regional GDP is positively correlated with an increase in higher education input efficiency,while an increase in the proportion of education expenditure to general public budget expenditure is negatively correlated with an increase in higher education input efficiency.After removing the influence of environmental factors and random disturbances,the average value of comprehensive efficiency decreases,and shows the regional difference characteristic of"leading in the east,second in the center and lagging in the west".