Chinanews, Taiyuan, April 27th (Gao Ruifeng) The future is here, how do colleges and universities respond?
On the 27th, at the Chinese and foreign university presidents forum held in Taiyuan, Shanxi, more than 10 Chinese and foreign university presidents discussed the future-oriented higher education.
On the 27th, presidents and vice presidents of more than 10 universities from China, Germany, South Korea, Russia, the United Kingdom and other countries discussed the theme of "Future-oriented University Governance and Mission Responsibility" in a form of online and offline integration. Hot discussion, sharing ideas for the future development of universities.
Currently, affected by the epidemic, international exchanges between universities have decreased, but the pace of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial revolution has not stopped. While changing human production and lifestyle, it is also changing the development model of higher education.
Facing the future, the reform of university governance system and the development direction of higher education are issues that global higher education must face.
"Higher education is at the forefront of reform." Liu Weiqi, president of Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, said that the epidemic has changed the "teaching" of teachers, the "learning" of students, and the "management" of schools.
"In the future higher education, the school and college two-level management system will be an important content of higher education reform, and the characteristic discipline and professional system will be the core competitiveness of colleges and universities."
At the forum, a number of principals said that it is necessary to break professional barriers and explore cross-border integration.
South Korea’s Yeongnam University President Choi Wai-Woo said that today’s universities are facing an overall transformation of the model and need an education model that matches the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Based on super-connectivity, super-intelligence and predictability, new innovations can be created through integration and connection. the value of.
Luo Xisheng, vice president of the University of Science and Technology of China, believes that we must actively seek change.
“At present, the combination of science and engineering is relatively good. The next step is to integrate science and technology with humanities, and science and art into a characteristic discipline.” Sun Guohui, vice president of Central University of Finance and Economics, believes that cross-integration between majors should be realized. Knowledge transfer is transformed into wisdom enlightenment, ability enhancement, and value shaping.
"Check in and out of get off work, issue performance according to the number of hours, scientific research is scored according to the grade of publications, the current university governance system and assessment and evaluation are more and more like the corporate system, and performance is issued with very complicated calculation formulas." Huang Guitian, president of Shanxi University put forward , "The future university governance system is a problem that needs to be considered together, and universities should not deviate from the university spirit."
In terms of talent training, Xia Wenbin, president of the University of International Business and Economics, said that the past talent training concepts had shortcomings, including high scores, low energy, and insufficient innovation. The next step is to coordinate resources and be guided by market and social needs to improve student solutions. The ability of practical problems, and at the same time play the role of the university in promoting the integration of production, education and research.
Burghard Hermeier, President of the Essen University of Applied Sciences of Economics and Management, Germany, said that for the future of the workplace, the emphasis is on the cultivation of students' methods and abilities, especially in school-enterprise cooperation.
Daniel Stavárek, Dean of the Kavina School of Business Administration, Opava Silesia University in the Czech Republic, said that changes are coming and universities should implement innovative countermeasures to solve the dynamic challenges faced by students and faculty.
Liu Weiqi suggested that efforts should be made in education evaluation reform, discipline ecological construction, and school and college management system reforms, and at the same time, more extensive exchanges and cooperation should be carried out.
Choi, the president of Yeongnam University in South Korea, hopes that the president's forum can explore effective plans for international university exchanges and cooperation and lay a foundation for cooperation.
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