China News Service, March 5. According to the Ministry of Education's website, recently, the Ministry of Education announced the results of the registration and approval of undergraduate majors in ordinary colleges and universities in 2019, adding 1,672 registered majors and 181 approved majors (including 130 national control points). Majors and 51 new majors outside the catalogue), and 47 degree-adjusted degree-granting or majors. The specialty points for the record, approval and adjustment will be included in the 2020 undergraduate enrollment plan of relevant universities. At the same time, 367 professional points were revoked.
Data map: Ministry of Education. Photo by Fuyu, reporter of Chinanews.com
The newly established professional work highlights the strengthening of demand-oriented, standard-oriented and characteristic-oriented. In insisting on demand orientation, colleges and universities are required to fully investigate the social needs when applying for majors, strengthen communication with employers, clarify the specific requirements of the society for new majors, and determine the scale of enrollment and formulate training programs according to the needs. In adhering to the standards, the relevant national professional quality national standards for teachers, practice conditions, funding guarantees and other requirements are detailed and quantified, the bottom line threshold is set through the professional declaration system, and all professional education instruction committees are organized to carry out the line according to national standards. Comment on it. In adhering to the characteristic orientation, guide colleges and universities to strengthen professional construction planning, take characteristic positioning as the quality connotation of professional settings, reasonably add specialties in accordance with their own school running positioning and school running characteristics, and coordinate professional optimization, adjustment, upgrade, replacement, and new construction.
Supporting urgently needed and emerging professions is also one of the principles of this newly established profession. In order to implement national strategic deployment, support qualified universities to set up professional layouts such as cyberspace security, integrated circuit design and integrated systems, artificial intelligence, data science and big data technology, and intelligent manufacturing engineering, and add virtual reality technology, industrial intelligence, and blocks. New majors outside the catalogue such as chain engineering; support universities to set up preventive medicine, traditional Chinese medicine rehabilitation majors, add new majors such as emergency management, aged care service management, cross-border e-commerce, etc .; support colleges and universities to promote the "four new" construction ( New Engineering, New Medical, New Agricultural, New Liberal Arts), a number of new specialties such as smart perception engineering, energy storage science and engineering, smart agriculture, agricultural intelligent equipment engineering, and sports capacity development were added. At the same time, we must strictly control the scientific nature, necessity, feasibility of new majors, and the standardization of major names. We must adhere to the appropriateness of width and narrowness, and oppose that the major names are too general or set too narrow.
At the same time, in order to prevent "overheating" of some majors, strictly control the "overheating" majors and curb the impulse of colleges and universities' extensional expansion. Majors with a large number of branches such as economic management are strictly controlled according to the actual needs of various places and the conditions for running colleges and universities. This time, 29 universities applied for the addition of related majors, and only approved the addition of one business management, three accounting, and four tourism management majors to vigorously guide colleges and universities (especially new undergraduate colleges) to meet social needs and consolidate their advantages in running schools. And characteristics, and strengthen the supply-side reform of talent training.
The Ministry of Education also announced the latest "Category of Undergraduate Programs for General Colleges and Universities (2020 Edition)". Based on the 2012 version of the catalogue, it added new majors approved in recent years.