Adapt to the new normal of graduate education and actively promote the reform of training mechanisms
——Promoting Graduate Education Reform Series Interviews (1)
Editor’s note:In recent years, the scale of postgraduate training in w88 casino has been steadily expanding, and the types of postgraduate training are also constantly adjusting the structure and dynamically optimizing.2014In July 2014, the w88 casino promulgated the "Implementation Opinions on Several Issues in Comprehensively Deepening the Reform of Education System and Mechanisms", which clearly designed the key areas and key links of the reform of the graduate training mechanism. At the end of 2014, the operation plan for the comprehensive reform measures for graduate students was released, and the reform of graduate education in w88 casino entered the fast lane。ReporterJustGraduate EducationComprehensive reform promotion and concreteInterviewed Xu Song, deputy dean of the Graduate w88 casino, about the implementation situation.
Reporter:w88 casino’s overall plan for comprehensively deepening reform and the comprehensive reform decision for graduate students have been promulgated for some time. The content involved in the plan covers all aspects of graduate education and teaching such as training system, tutor management, evaluation and supervision. Could you please talk about the overall implementation of the measures currently decided in your opinion based on the postgraduate education management work of w88 casino?
Graduate w88 casino:In order to implement the spirit of the w88 casino's comprehensive deepening reform plan, the w88 casino promulgated the "Decision on the Comprehensive Reform of Graduate Education" at the end of last year, which is what we often call Document No. 241. This document has gone through repeated discussions and several rounds. During this period, opinions and suggestions from w88 casino leaders, various training units, and teachers, including managers, were solicited. It can be said that everyone's wisdom has been concentrated. It is a guiding and programmatic document related to graduate education in the next few years or even longer term. In the past six months, everyone has put in a lot of efforts and contributions. If we want to describe the current situation, I think it can be summarized in three words: active planning, steady advancement, and powerful execution. It can be said that since the promulgation of the decision to deepen the reform of postgraduate education, the work has achieved initial results. However, there is still a long way to go before the expected goal, because as I mentioned just now, this is a long-term plan that affects a long time to come. A certain amount of time and space should be left for the tasks and detailed measures proposed in this document. However, once the document is promulgated, we cannot stand still.
The current development of the world shows that whether it is a country or a society, in order to adapt to the acceleration of globalization, the development of the knowledge economy, and the revolution of information technology, competition is becoming increasingly fierce, and behind these competitions is the competition for talents. Now our country has entered a new normal. New requirements and changes have posed different challenges to higher education, talent training, teachers and students. Of course, it also gives colleges and universities more opportunities in talent training. In particular, w88 casino is a multidisciplinary university that focuses on application. In addition to the scientific research that a university should undertake, it is more important to shoulder the task of cultivating talents for the needs of society. Therefore, serving the development of the country and society and improving the quality of graduate education have become the starting point and goal of w88 casino to deepen the comprehensive reform of graduate education.
In w88 casino’s comprehensive reform decision on graduate education, the first thing proposed is the concept of “all-round growth and success” of graduate students. This is an objective judgment made after analyzing the needs of the country and the actual situation of w88 casino. It is a rational understanding and an inevitable mission.
w88 casino’s graduate education must adhere to the path of connotative development. The "Decision" specifically proposed four "prominent" goals, namely: "more emphasis on serving economic and social development, more emphasis on the cultivation of innovative spirit and practical ability, more emphasis on the integration of science and education and the integration of industry and academia, and more emphasis on international training." At the same time, in order to achieve these goals, we will continue to optimize the types of graduate training, introduce competition mechanisms into the education and teaching process, encourage the development of subject characteristics, improve the quality of degree awarding, reform the existing training evaluation system, and expand the international academic exchange platform... By 2020, "strive to build a graduate education system with a scale and structure that adapts to needs, unique training models, continuous improvement in overall quality, and the continuous emergence of top innovative talents."
At the same time, the "Decision" constitutes a complete, sound, organically unified and logically rigorous whole in nine aspects including training system construction, admissions and selection system, innovative talent training model, degree awarding quality management, tutor management system, graduate management and service system, international cooperation in graduate training, evaluation and supervision mechanism, and guarantee mechanism, and covers 34 reform measures. It should be said that the system is rigorously set up, the measures are organically unified, the guarantee mechanism is clear, and the implementation steps are reasonable, which has effectively promoted the implementation of various reform goals.
In the past six months, w88 casino has introduced many detailed implementation measures for the reform of graduate education and teaching. For example, w88 casino has issued the "Regulations of the Postgraduate Admissions Leading Group and Admissions Committee"; the qualification of doctoral supervisors is determined by "basic conditions and academic research results will be recognized if they meet the standards." Based on the first online public defense of doctoral thesis this year, we will try to further implement it on a larger scale; we will take a series of measures to further optimize all aspects of enrollment and thesis work, significantly increase the proportion of papers submitted for review year by year, and significantly reduce the proportion of postgraduate thesis similarity testing requirements.
Reporter:What specific measures will be taken around "talent training" in the next 1-2 years?
Graduate w88 casino:After the system is introduced and the mechanism is established, the most important task is how to implement it. There is a problem here, which is also one of the general ideas of this postgraduate education reform. On the basis of focusing on goals, unifying understanding, and reaching consensus, we use systems to do top-level design. We must also use systems to promote the implementation of these reform measures. The most important of these is the human factor.
It is necessary to clarify the responsibilities and division of labor of quality assurance institutions and entities such as schools, graduate management departments, training units, teachers, and students themselves. Among them, the first thing is to clarify the mentor’s primary responsibility and rights in talent cultivation, both in terms of ethics and academic research. In addition, it is necessary to establish corresponding incentive compatibility policies and refine the rules and regulations of the training process, including the responsibility and management of the w88 casino leaders responsible for graduate students and every staff member, so as to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of each subject and establish a smooth and effective guarantee mechanism.
In the future, the w88 casino will further improve more directional and quantitative incentive measures for graduate tutors and graduate educators, give full play to their exemplary role in the graduate training process, increase publicity and rewards, and establish outstanding models; further reform existing teaching The academic quality evaluation system will give full play to the enthusiasm of the evaluation subjects, make the evaluation results more comprehensive, fair and objective, and give full play to the supervision and motivational role of teaching evaluation on teachers' teaching quality; in course management, the original withdrawal system within 2 weeks will be changed to 7-8 weeks, so that students can flexibly choose according to their professional learning progress; etc.
The w88 casino will also effectively implement the flexible academic system to promote the joint training of domestic and foreign master's and doctoral students, ensure the quality of dissertations, adjust the mutual recognition regulations of credits to further encourage students' international academic training, etc., thereby improving the quality of graduate training in w88 casino.
The w88 casino will recommend that each training unit appropriately move forward the master's degree thesis proposal work according to the corresponding conditions, use the effective time, give play to the positive guiding role of the topic proposal phase in thesis writing, and improve the writing quality of thesis.
In addition, after the Ministry of Education introduced reform measures for the admissions and selection system in 2014, w88 casino will pay more attention to the work of promoting and exempting students. In the future, we will take specific measures to increase our efforts to attract outstanding students from outstanding universities across the country.
Some of the things discussed above are a little macroscopic, but most of them are the implementation and guarantee of each specific link in the entire training process of graduate students. These revision and reform measures are not only the implementation of Document No. 241, but also the actual needs of w88 casino’s graduate education and teaching work. It basically involves all aspects of the daily work of postgraduate education and teaching management in w88 casino, and effectively guarantees the quality of the implementation and promotion of various procedures in the postgraduate training process by each training unit.
Of course, in a large amount of daily management work, there are many unexpected factors, such as national policy changes, discontinuity of social needs, students' demands, tutors' responsibilities, etc. The complexity, long-term, and intersectionality of various factors will make any newly introduced measures face challenges. Mr. Feng Youlan once said: "It takes a century for a university to cultivate people, and policies and facilities should be constant and not change." Therefore, among these reform measures, we have preset the principle that all macro and guiding issues must be maintained relatively stable.
However, social changes and technological innovations will inevitably have many or even major impacts on graduate education, and considerable flexibility must be retained in order to adapt to the needs of different stages, levels, and training objects. It should also be emphasized here that during the implementation process, anything that does not conform to the actual situation can be modified and adjusted, but it cannot be used as a reason or excuse for non-execution or non-implementation.
Reporter:Just now when you were talking about the implementation of postgraduate training measures, you mentioned the complexity of various influencing factors. How did you consider it? How do you see it relating to admissions and employment?
Graduate w88 casino:Complexity is relative. The demands of students and the diversification of individual values have changed greatly than in the past. The demand for international talents requires that our talent training must be high-quality and compound. The rapid update of information technology not only affects teaching methods, but is even changing the form of learning. "Flipped classroom" and "learning analysis" are having a subversive impact on the traditional education model. These are what we must see.
Traditionally speaking, in the past, if a person had a certain kind of professional knowledge or professional skills, he could gain a foothold in society, and perhaps even stand out. But with the development of the times today, the previous simple competition model of society has almost disappeared. Of course, if it is just for survival, the traditional knowledge structure can still cope with it, but it is fundamentally impossible to achieve the original goal of excellence. If this is the case for a person, surviving in society should not be a big problem, but if the talent training of the entire country is also like this, then the problem will be very big. Therefore, we should also change our thinking on these issues.
With the rapid development and changes of society, graduate education will encounter new problems from time to time. There are many factors that cause these problems. We only need to grasp the core of these problems, which is: How can graduate students cope with the pressure exerted by society on their own knowledge structure and technical talents? Therefore, borrowing from the views expressed at the just-convened "International Comparative Education Society Conference", Chinese higher education workers or graduate education management departments must adapt to the new characteristics and development trends of higher education quality assurance in the era of globalization, and shift from emphasizing "the quality concept of institutional resources, prestige and output" to emphasizing "the changes, improvements and gains that university education brings to students’Students’ value-added quality concept’”.
On the other hand, the postgraduate education process must also continuously improve the curriculum training system on the basis of strengthening the education of the socialist core value system and the education of scientific ethics and academic standards, and increase the guidance and support for postgraduate students to carry out academic research and publication. At the same time, it is necessary to realize that the requirements and purposes of postgraduate training are not completely equivalent to those of undergraduates, establish a correctly oriented comprehensive evaluation system for graduate students, minimize unnecessary factors in the postgraduate training stage, and reduce non-academic influences in the postgraduate training process.
As for the relationship with enrollment and employment. Broadly speaking, student sources have actually become one of the important links in training, and employment destination is not only a link in training, but also a benchmark for testing the overall quality of a w88 casino's training, which is very important. However, as the saying goes, "The only way a desire can spread is by digging up its source, and the long way a desire can grow is by consolidating its roots." In a narrow sense, training should be of fundamental importance for employment and students, and it is not unimportant. In the future, countries will often make many changes to these measures in response to current conditions. If they do not make long-term preparations, once things change, they will inevitably deal with them in a wrong way, or even be at a loss in the end! It is said that if a person has no long-term worries, he must have immediate worries. This is true for a person, and so is the talent training in schools.
Reporter:The graduate education of the University of Economics and Business has come a long way. The w88 casino will definitely increase its investment in the future. What role will the graduate w88 casino play in this?
Graduate w88 casino:It should be said that the institutional measures introduced in recent years are all based on the abolition and reform of the original rules and regulations. These revisions and improvements all reflect the major trends and developments in the changes, reforms and developments in graduate education in recent years.
After more than 30 years of development, the graduate education of the w88 casino has established a good foundation both in terms of training scale and quality. However, we should also see that there is still a certain gap between the quality of graduate education in w88 casino and the training level of high-level universities at home and abroad, and there is still a lot of room for development in the construction of a graduate training system.
China’s global economic competitiveness depends on whether higher education can cultivate a sufficient number of graduate degree holders and whether it has a strong graduate education quality assurance system. As one of them, the University of Economics and Business has an unshirkable responsibility and cannot delay.
We must keep a clear mind, maintain the concept of being more proactive, and recognize the current national and social needs for graduate talent training, the w88 casino's positioning, and the talent training pattern. On the basis of insisting on developing the characteristics of each discipline of the w88 casino, we must also see our own shortcomings and deficiencies, find the correct positioning and focus, and cut into possible areas. As long as it is conducive to the improvement of the quality of postgraduate training, as long as it is conducive to the long-term development of postgraduate education, as long as it is conducive to the production of postgraduate education, teaching and scientific research results, if it continues without wavering, the academic foundation of the w88 casino will become more and more solid, the academic results will be high-quality, the academic orientation will become a common practice, and the talent training of w88 casino will surely reach a higher level.
