China News Service, September 28. According to the website of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Education recently issued "Several Opinions on Strengthening the Post Management of Doctoral Tutors" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions").
The "Opinions" make it clear that the training unit should formulate comprehensive criteria for the selection of doctoral supervisors in terms of political quality, teacher ethics and style, academic level, educating ability, guidance experience and training conditions, and avoid simplistic papers and scientific research. The funding determines the selection and employment conditions.
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The "Opinions" proposes to improve the job selection system.
The training unit should formulate comprehensive selection criteria for doctoral tutors in terms of political quality, teacher ethics, academic level, educating ability, guidance experience and training conditions, and avoid simplistically determining the selection conditions based on thesis and scientific research funding. ; It is necessary to formulate complete methods for the selection and appointment of doctoral tutors, adhere to fairness and openness, earnestly perform the selection and appointment procedures, establish a system of regular review and dynamic adjustment of enrollment qualifications, and ensure the quality of selection and appointment of doctoral tutors; select teachers with deputy senior titles and below as doctors Student tutors should be strictly controlled.
Doctoral supervisors should generally have experience in supervising or assisting doctoral students before independently supervising doctoral students.
For foreign tutors, part-time tutors and off-campus tutors, the training unit must put forward special selection requirements.
The "Opinions" are clear and improve the assessment and evaluation system.
The training unit shall formulate scientific evaluation standards for doctoral tutors, improve the evaluation methods, incorporate political performance, teacher ethics and style, academic level, guidance energy input, and education effectiveness into the evaluation and evaluation system, and perform the duties of doctoral tutors Conduct a comprehensive evaluation.
Relying on the annual assessment, strengthen the evaluation of the teaching process, implement the combination of self-evaluation by tutors, peer evaluation, student evaluation, and management personnel evaluation to establish a scientific and reasonable evaluation mechanism.
Establish an incentive demonstration mechanism.
The training unit should pay attention to the use of the evaluation results of doctoral supervisors, use the evaluation results as an important basis for performance allocation and evaluation, as an important basis for the annual enrollment qualifications and enrollment plan allocation of mentors, and give full play to the education, guidance and evaluation of evaluation and evaluation. Incentive function.
Encourage local and various training units to select excellent mentors and excellent teams, increase publicity, promote successful experiences, and attach importance to the demonstration and leading role of excellent mentors and excellent teams.
The "Opinions" pointed out that the system of mentor change should be improved.
The training unit shall clarify the procedures for the change of mentors and establish dynamic and flexible adjustment methods.
Due to doctoral students' transfer of schools, majors, change of research direction, or health reasons of their supervisors, transfer, etc., both graduate students and supervisors can apply for change of supervisors.
For conflicts between teachers and students or other situations that are not conducive to maintaining a good tutoring relationship, the training unit shall promptly mediate based on the principle of protecting the rights and interests of both teachers and students, and may terminate the tutoring relationship and re-appoint the tutor if necessary.
Improve post exit procedures.
For tutors who fail to effectively perform their job responsibilities and have serious problems in doctoral enrollment, training, degree awarding, etc., the training unit should take measures such as interviews, restriction of recruitment, suspension of recruitment, and withdrawal of tutor positions as appropriate.
Those who violate the moral standards of teachers and those who violate the law and discipline shall be dealt with seriously and the responsible persons shall be held accountable.
For the doctoral students involved in the supervisor's withdrawal from the guidance position, proper arrangements should be made and follow-up training should be done.
The "Opinions" require that the management of job setting be standardized.
The training unit should scientifically determine the size of doctoral tutor positions based on its own development positioning, discipline development planning, resource conditions, enrollment plans, and teacher level; reasonable according to the characteristics of the discipline, teacher ethics, academic level, scientific research tasks and training quality Determine the quota for the tutor to guide the doctoral students, and ensure the tutor's effort to guide the doctoral students.
Improve the supervision and management mechanism.
Provincial education administrative departments shall supervise and guide the training units in their regions to improve the post management system of doctoral tutors, and incorporate the construction and implementation of the system into the corresponding evaluation indicators and resource allocation system.
The training unit shall formulate relevant systems and methods for the post management of doctoral supervisors, strengthen and standardize the post management of doctoral supervisors, protect the legal rights and interests of doctoral supervisors, and promote the full implementation of their job responsibilities.