Cost-effectiveness Analysis on Life Long Education Policies

本研究的目的是从成本效益的角度来评价终身教育政策。空中大学项目是在全国范围内提供高等教育的政策之一。与传统大学相比，空中大学的每名学生的成本相当低，而每名毕业生和每学分的成本则更高。模拟表明，通过在全国范围内扩大航空大学的运营规模、使用卫星系统或其他方式，可以降低每学分的成本，但无论如何，每学分的成本都会高于传统的私立大学。为了降低每笔信贷的成本，提高信贷登记率和信贷收益率似乎是非常有效的。此外，确保与传统机构的合作是使远程教学具有成本效益的最可靠方式之一。不仅与其他高等教育机构的安排将变得重要，而且与企业的安排也将变得重要。正规教育不能立即响应社会需求的变化。技术创新正在迅速发生，在学校获得的技能和知识很快就会过时。在职业学校接受正规教育后或通过工作本身获得工作场所所需的各种知识和技能。工作场所的人力资源开发正变得越来越重要。每家公司都必须加强其教育和培训系统，以培养其业务所需的工人。公司内部教育具有公共方面的特点。应采取公共措施支持人力资源开发。

The purpose of this research is to evaluate life-long education policies from the view point of their cost-effectiveness. The University of the Air project is one of the policies of offering higher education on a nationwide scale. The cost per student of the University of the Air is rather low when compared with costs of conventional universities, while the cost per graduate and that per credit are higher. The simulation indicates that the cost per credit can be decreased by expanding the operation of the University of the Air to a nationwide scale, employing a satellite system or in other ways ; however, the cost per credit will be higher than that of conventional private universities in any case. In order to decrease the cost per credit, improvement of credit registration ratio and credit earning ratio appears to be highly effective. Also securing the cooperation with the conventional institutions is one of the surest ways of making distance teaching cost-effective. Not only arrangements with other institutions of higher education, but also with enterprises will become important.Formal education cannot immediately respond to the changes in social demand. Technological innovation is taking place rapidly, and skills and knowledge acquired at school will soon be outdated. Various knowledge and skills needed in the work place are obtained after the formal education at vocational schools or through work itself. Human resource development at the work place is becoming more important. Each company has to enhance its system of education and training to develop workers necessary for their business. In-company education has a public aspect. Public measures to support human resource development should be taken.