Validation of educational policy issues is the logical starting point of educational policy dynamic operation, to clarify the conception, connotation and features of educational policy issues is the prerequisite and foundation of validation of educational policy issues.

It has been widely accepted the importance of the process of policy issue validating, and the process is regarded as the first step in policy analysis.

The paper analyses the present state and characteristics of the development of our non-governmental higher educationduring the Tenth Five-year Plan period,and explores several prominent policy problems that restrain the non-governmental highereducation,such as endowment insurance for teachers and tax-free treatment for non-governmental institutions of higher learning.

The process through which social problems are recognized as policy problems and included into the agenda of decision organization or action plan is called policy agenda.