Education Inflation in Study Tours
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: With the in-depth promotion of the concept of quality education, study tours in my country have developed rapidly, but in practice, the phenomenon of "education inflation" has emerged: the cost of study tours has continued to rise, while the value of education has not increased accordingly, and even problems such as form outweighing content, overpackaging and exaggerated publicity have emerged. This paper first explains the concepts of study tours and education inflation and the relationship between the two, and analyzes its performance characteristics in terms of inflated costs, blind comparisons, uneven quality, and utilitarian evaluation; then analyzes the causes such as market supply and demand imbalance, institutional profit-seeking, and government performance-driven; then through current situation analysis and effect evaluation, it reveals the multiple impacts of education inflation on the quality of study tour education, students' knowledge and practical ability, and educational equity; finally, from the three levels of policy, school and society, comprehensive countermeasures such as building access standards, strengthening supervision, optimizing curriculum design, teacher training and home-school cooperation are proposed. Research shows that only through multi-party collaboration and systematic governance can the vicious cycle of "education inflation" and market expansion in study tours be broken, and study tours can be promoted to return to the essence of education and achieve healthy, balanced and sustainable development.
DOI: 10.61784/wjes3043
Author: JingYi Feng
Institution: Central University of Finance and Economics
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4411080649