Fake dissertations will be incorporated into the national credit information sharing platform as a credit record, speed up the training of talents in short supply in an unconventional way, and establish a responsibility identification and accountability mechanism for teacher ethics failure...

  On the 22nd, the Ministry of Education, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Finance held a press conference and jointly issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Reform and Development of Postgraduate Education in the New Era", which put forward requirements for postgraduate education from many aspects.

Data map: On September 3, Yunnan University welcomed the 2020 postgraduate registration.

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There will be 3 million graduate students this year

  "Over the past 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, my country has cultivated more than 10 million doctoral and master's degrees. This year, the number of graduate students will reach 3 million and it has become a major postgraduate education country in the world." said Hong Dayong, Director of the Department of Degree Management and Graduate Education of the Ministry of Education .

  He introduced that the current understanding of the law of graduate education is still not in place. Some schools are still pursuing scale expansion one-sidedly, with insufficient high-quality and individualized training; some units have insufficient internal quality control and still have a certain degree of degree. Water injection" phenomenon.

Make sure there is no "water injection" in the degree!

  "We must ensure the brand of the Chinese degree and ensure that our degree does not have any "water injection". Therefore, we focus on teaching, learning, evaluation, and management to promote this work together." Hong Dayong said.

  From the perspective of teachers, the training of students must be strictly managed academically, and the tutors themselves must lead by example, uphold a rigorous and realistic academic attitude, spend more time on educating people, and strengthen the academic guidance of students.

  Students must have academic input, strictly implement the academic process regulations, earnestly implement all aspects of learning, and develop a rigorous and self-disciplined behavior habit.

  In all aspects of the dissertation and defense, the relevant review experts must be really hardened.

It is necessary to earnestly take responsibility, earnestly review, and handle all aspects of student training, especially the key aspects such as graduation review and thesis defense.

  In particular, it is necessary to strengthen the further improvement of management rules, strengthen the sampling of dissertations, strengthen the inspection and diagnosis of the quality of postgraduate training in various training units, and at the same time improve the mechanism for dealing with degree "water injection" and academic misconduct, and promote classification and evaluation. , Different disciplines and different levels of degrees, formulate more scientific evaluation standards.

Data map: Jilin University graduate students return to campus.

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Falsified dissertations will be included in credit records!

  Postgraduate education trains high-level innovative talents, and requires high standards and strict requirements in management.

Strict quality management is one of the key reform measures proposed in the "Opinions".

The "Opinions" put forward requirements from three aspects: import, process and export.

  Strictly control the entrance, deepen the reform of the examination and enrollment system, accurately select talents, and select good candidates who are willing to read, loyal and reliable, and have both ability and political integrity.

  Strictly control the process, grasp the key links such as course study, internship practice, thesis opening, mid-term assessment, thesis review and defense, and degree evaluation, and implement the management responsibility of the whole process.

  Strictly control the exit, strengthen the construction of the style of study, dare to let unqualified students not be able to graduate, but force students to concentrate on learning.

Make good use of methods such as the evaluation of degree authorization points and random inspections of dissertations to strengthen the supervision and testing of the quality of graduate education.

The fraudulent act of dissertation will be included in the national credit information sharing platform as credit records.

Data map: On September 7, the 2020 fall semester of Huaqiao University officially opened.

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Establish a responsibility recognition and accountability mechanism for teachers’ failure of morality

  The "Opinions" also put forward requirements for the construction of the tutor team.

  Political performance, teacher ethics and style, academic level, mentoring energy input, and education effectiveness will be included in the mentor evaluation system.

Support tutors in strict academic management, and support responsible tutors.

  “Tutors are not only the academic tutors of students but also life tutors. Graduate students are not simply the identity of the students, but also the partners of the tutors.” Hong Dayong said that the Ministry of Education will soon issue the "Guiding Code of Conduct for Graduate Tutors" to establish teacher ethics in accordance with laws and regulations. Responsibility identification and accountability mechanism.

Data map: Dr. Nong takes college students to the land.

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Protect "unlearned" and expand the enrollment ratio of direct PhD students

  At the press conference, Hong Dayong introduced the "Ten Special Actions" developed by the Ministry of Education.

In order to ensure the timely implementation of the "Opinions" and achieve practical results, to better play the role of guidance, supervision and guidance.

——Accelerate the training of talents in short supply in an extraordinary way

  In terms of related actions focusing on strategic support and high-end leadership, it is necessary to carry out the training of high-level talents in key areas of core technology.

  Hong Dayong introduced that it is necessary to focus on core technologies in key areas, accelerate the training of a group of talents in short supply in an unconventional way, and make contributions to the country's solution to the "stuck neck" problem and the promotion of technological innovation.

——Encourage the establishment of "industry mentors"

  In terms of optimizing the setting of disciplines and personnel training, it is necessary to carry out the construction of integration of production and education.

  Hong Dayong introduced that it is necessary to promote the reform of professional degree postgraduate training model, encourage local training units to set up "industry (industry) mentors", promote industry enterprises to participate in all aspects of talent training; improve the quality evaluation mechanism of the integration of industry and education, and strengthen talent training Connect with the employment needs of industry enterprises to enhance the practical innovation ability of graduate students.

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——Expand the enrollment ratio of direct doctoral students

  The improvement of doctoral education has also been put on the agenda.

  In terms of enrollment, it is necessary to improve the recruitment and selection mechanism for doctoral students and expand the proportion of direct doctoral students; at the same time, explore the establishment of a negative list system for enrollment plan management, and impose necessary restrictions on training units with outstanding problems.

  Hong Dayong introduced that it is necessary to advance the layout of doctoral education and expand the scale of doctoral students in a differentiated manner.

Optimize the resource allocation mechanism to create a better supporting environment for the sustainable development of doctoral education.

——Support "unfamiliar" and unpopular subjects with high protection and inheritance value

  Focusing on consolidating the foundation and cultivating core competitiveness related actions are also the focus of the "Ten Special Actions".

  "Support a group of basic disciplines in the fields of natural sciences, philosophy and social sciences that are related to the support of original innovation, as well as'unknown' and unpopular disciplines with high protection and inheritance value." Hong Dayong said that through the above methods, the basic disciplines will be deepened Construction.

  Author: Lang Lang