(Source: "Science and Technology Daily" 2025-01-08）
Not long ago, the Hunan Provincial Department of Education issued the "Implementation Plan for Mutual Recognition of Credits, Co-Insurance of Logistics, and Sharing of Facilities among Universities in Yuelushan University Town (Trial)", which clarified that the three universities of Central South University, Hunan University, and Hunan Normal University will implement mutual selection of courses and mutual recognition of credits. This not only provides conditions for resource sharing among the three universities, but also makes mutual recognition of credits once again a hot topic in the field of higher education.
Why did mutual recognition of credits develop? What is the current status of its development? Where will this move go in the future? With these questions, reporters from Science and Technology Daily interviewed relevant experts.
Promote resource exchange among universities
In the field of higher education, mutual recognition of credits is not a new thing.Huang Haigang, a professor at the National Institute for Opening up and the Institute of Global Innovation and Governance at the w88 casino, said that in fact, mutual recognition of credits has been implemented in the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries as well as in the European Union for many years, and is a relatively mature and common practice in higher education talent training. Under the mutual credit recognition model, students can take courses from other institutions in addition to courses offered by their own w88 casino. The credits of these external courses can be converted into credits of the w88 casino. Similarly, the credits of the courses of the w88 casino will also be recognized by other schools.
In our country, the practice of mutual recognition of credits has already begun. In the late 1990s, with the support of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Science and Technology Beijing and other universities jointly established the Beijing Xueyuan Road Regional University Teaching Community (hereinafter referred to as the "Xuanxuan Road Community"), which became one of the domestic explorations of mutual recognition of credits. At that time, most of the member universities of the community had leading specialty disciplines in the country, but the subject categories were not comprehensive enough. Therefore, these universities realize complementary teaching resources through mutual recognition of credits.
Huang Haigang believes that complementary resources are an important prerequisite for attracting universities to explore mutual recognition of credits. "Through mutual recognition of credits, universities in the region can share more advantageous resources, which will help achieve collaborative education and improve the quality of talent training," she said.
Professor Li Jun, Executive Director of the Faculty of Education of Shenzhen University, Director of the Institute of Higher Education, gives an example. If a student majoring in science and engineering has a strong interest in humanities and social sciences knowledge, but the humanities and social sciences of his w88 casino are not a strong point, then he can choose high-quality humanities and social sciences courses and obtain credits through the mutual recognition mechanism of credits. "From the perspective of student development, mutual recognition of credits in colleges and universities also meets students' individual development needs." He said.
Li Jun added that in addition to helping students grow, mutual recognition of credits also provides opportunities for exchanges between universities. "In the past, exchanges between universities tended to focus on the field of scientific research, while there were relatively few exchanges in the field of talent training. The mutual recognition of credits mechanism has established a new teaching-centered exchange model between universities," Li Jun said.
It is urgent to formulate institutional norms
In an ideal world, mutual recognition of credits is undoubtedly a "good medicine" to promote the sharing of educational resources and achieve quality improvement. However, the exploration of mutual recognition of credits is not an easy task. “There are still certain difficulties in the implementation of mutual recognition of credits.” Li Jun said frankly that although universities are actively trying to recognize mutual credits, they are still facing many problems that need to be solved.
The scarcity of high-quality course resources is a major challenge facing mutual recognition of credits. Li Jun told reporters that in many colleges and universities, difficulty in choosing courses has become a common phenomenon. "For many schools, course resources are in short supply. When the course selection season comes, many college students even need to 'grab' to complete the elective course requirements. If a w88 casino cannot meet the course selection needs of its own students, it will be impossible to offer high-quality courses to students from other schools." He said.
In addition, problems such as serious homogeneity of courses and the inconvenience of taking classes across schools have also been criticized by students. The root of these problems lies in the lack of relevant norms for mutual recognition of credits. "This will make the mutual recognition of credits run the risk of becoming a mere formality." Huang Haigang said.
Li Jun added: "Currently, universities have not yet formed unified rules on mutual recognition of credits in terms of management mechanisms." From the perspective of mutual recognition of credits alone, it is inevitable that there are differences in the training standards of students in various universities. It is obviously unreasonable if students trained with different standards share a set of credit standards.
“Therefore, prudent system, curriculum and evaluation design are the prerequisites for promoting mutual recognition of credits.” Huang Haigang pointed out that mutual recognition of credits requires scientific and systematic design of talent training models. Colleges and universities should prepare in advance, plan and demonstrate the implementation process and other aspects, and avoid blindly following the trend.
Exploring the way forward for mutual recognition of credits
As early as 2012, the "Ministry of Education's Several Opinions on Comprehensively Improving the Quality of Higher Education" proposed to encourage local governments to establish university alliances, give full play to the radiating role of high-quality resources of subordinate universities, and achieve resource sharing and complementary advantages among universities in the region. Today, Beijing, Hunan, Guangdong and other places are actively promoting mutual recognition of credits through university alliances and building bridges for the exchange of inter-w88 casino resources.
Li Jun believes that the university alliance system is a reasonable way to promote the orderly development of mutual recognition of credits, but it cannot be done blindly. "The premise for the establishment of the University Credit Mutual Recognition Alliance is that multiple universities should draw on each other's strengths and support each other," he said.
Huang Haigang said: "Mutual recognition of credits needs to be gradually explored and practiced. After the experience is mature, it can be extended to different types of universities."
In order to ensure the smooth promotion of mutual recognition of credits in more universities, system construction and mechanism guarantees are particularly important.Huang Haigang believes: “Each university should strengthen the system of mutual selection and mutual recognition, standardize the elective procedures for cross-w88 casino courses, and ensure that mutual recognition of credits can continue to advance.”
“In addition to establishing alliances between schools, departments in each w88 casino can also carry out mutual recognition of credits in the form of ‘professional alliances’.” Li Jun told reporters that the so-called “professional alliance” is a mutual recognition of credit alliances established by the same major in different schools. Although the rankings of many university majors are not eye-catching, they may have outstanding performance in certain research directions due to factors such as research tradition and geographical location. The "professional alliance" mutual recognition of credits helps to gather high-quality resources, help students find a more suitable academic development direction for them, and promote personalized development.
In terms of course design, Li Jun believes that colleges and universities participating in mutual recognition of credits should not only understand students’ course selection needs through surveys, but also use their “special skills” to allow more masters and famous experts to join the design team of cross-w88 casino elective courses.
“In order to design meaningful and valuable courses for mutual recognition of credits, the power of course design must be returned to university teachers, so that university teachers can truly become the masters of the curriculum.” Li Jun pointed out that universities should encourage teachers to combine their own scientific research results to develop courses suitable for mutual recognition of credits to avoid the problem of homogenization of course offerings.
Huang Haigang pointed out that to answer the essence of mutual recognition of credits, the key is to clarify the values and concepts behind it. When promoting mutual recognition of credits, colleges and universities need to think about the fundamental issue of "who to train and how to train them" to ensure the realization of high-quality collaborative education.
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