The number of
students at school will exceed 3 million How postgraduates become high-level talents
3000000! This is the number of graduate students in our country that will reach in 2020. In 1949, this number was only 629.
The rapid development of postgraduate education in my country has become an important part of the national innovation system, fulfilling the dual missions of "high-end talent supply" and "science and technology innovation".
On July 29, General Secretary Xi Jinping issued important instructions on the work of postgraduate education, emphasizing that party committees and governments at all levels should attach great importance to postgraduate education, promote postgraduate education to meet the needs of the development of the party and the country, adhere to the "four-for" policy, and aim at the frontiers of science and technology. In key areas, deepen the adjustment of disciplines, upgrade the level of the tutor team, improve the talent training system, and accelerate the training of high-level talents that the country urgently needs.
Wang Junzheng, executive deputy dean of the Graduate School of Beijing Institute of Technology, told the Science and Technology Daily that the country's demand for the cultivation of talents in universities, especially high-level graduate students, is more urgent than ever. Universities are therefore facing new challenges. "The construction of a world-class university cannot be achieved easily." He believes that to cultivate high-level and top-notch innovative talents requires hard work.
Beijing Institute of Technology is guided by large-scale system innovation and technology, and has constructed a multi-disciplinary integrated knowledge system of undergraduate, master and doctoral degrees. Wang Junzheng gave an example. The school has constructed a multidisciplinary integrated knowledge system of top-notch and innovative talents driven by the large-scale new energy vehicle system, established a multi-level open practice platform for training needs at different stages, and used technological innovation competitions and graduate students. The complementarity between the subjects, the "Science and Technology Innovation + Academic Pilot Program" is proposed, which organizes postgraduates from different disciplines into project groups, independently conducts research on scientific and technological innovation projects, and creates an integrated practical innovation ability training system. This system has effectively improved graduate students' ability to deal with and solve complex engineering problems with depth and difficulty across disciplines.
In fact, scientific research activities are the soil for the growth of graduate students.
Qiu Yong, president of Tsinghua University, specifically mentioned a student-Guo Yutao, a scholarship recipient of the school and a doctoral student in the Department of Civil Engineering. Guo Yutao remembers that when he was in the first year of his Ph.D., he participated in the research and design of the Majiahu flyover at Wuhan Tianhe Airport. His supervisor, Academician Nie Jianguo, sent him to participate in review meetings and conduct on-site inspections. In the teacher’s words and deeds, Guo Yutao became clearer: as an engineer, you must have a professional conscience, social responsibility and a spirit of responsibility. Qiu Yong said that teachers cultivated students' academic interest and academic integrity in scientific research activities.
Li Yuanyuan, president of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, cited more names.
In Wuhan, during the new crown pneumonia epidemic, there were about 500 medical graduate students in the school fighting on various fronts of the epidemic. As a core member, Wu Canrong, a doctoral student in the School of Pharmacy, found that human furin may be a new target for the treatment of new coronavirus infections; doctoral student Shi Tianyi and master student Yang Jiehua from the School of Telecommunications served as the backbone of the team, and the enterprise team developed an AI-assisted diagnosis of new coronary pneumonia System... Li Yuanyuan said that the school will continue to optimize the curriculum system, strengthen the construction of high-level international courses, interdisciplinary courses, and professional degree practice courses for medical graduates, further strengthen systematic scientific research training and clinical training, and strive to make medical graduates stand at the forefront of innovation .
However, in addition to grades, some tutors have another expectation regarding postgraduate training.
After seeing General Secretary Xi Jinping’s instructions on postgraduate training, Professor Chu Tao of the School of Information and Electronic Engineering at Zhejiang University once again raised the old saying-can we appropriately increase the number of graduate students, especially doctoral students.
In schools or colleges with strong educational capabilities, "more outstanding teachers and fewer doctoral candidates" is a common phenomenon. Yi Jianqiang, a researcher at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also told a reporter from the Science and Technology Daily during the two sessions this year that due to quota restrictions, the tutors of some units could not even get graduate students for two or three years. It suggested that the enrollment indicators for graduate students should be delegated to each enrollment unit, so that universities and research institutes can determine their plans for enrolling doctoral and master students each year according to their own specific conditions. Chu Tao also said whether some tutors can be allowed to raise their own funds to train doctoral students. In order to ensure the quality of postgraduate training, it is possible to strengthen supervision during and after the event, lenient entry and strict exit, and establish a retrospective system of supervisor responsibility.