Chinanews.com, September 28. According to the website of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Education has recently issued "Several Opinions on Strengthening the Post Management of Doctoral Tutors" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions"). The question answered the reporter's question.
The person in charge stated that the "Opinions" require that the rights of doctoral tutors be guaranteed and strictly regulated at the same time, and they firmly support the strict academic management of doctoral students in accordance with the regulations.
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The person in charge introduced that the "Opinions" put forward 10 measures to strengthen the post management of doctoral tutors.
It mainly includes five aspects:
The first is to strict political requirements and clarify the rights and responsibilities of mentors.
Put political requirements in the first place, clarify the connotation of the position, and emphasize that the doctoral supervisor is a position established for the needs of doctoral students, not a fixed level or honorary title in the professional title system, and must be separated from the professional title evaluation system to prevent the formation of a lifelong advisor system.
In response to the problem that some doctoral supervisors "do not want to manage" and "do not dare to manage", on the one hand, it is clear that the primary task of doctoral supervisors is talent training, and they are responsible for ideological and political education, academic standard training, and innovation ability training for doctoral students. On the other hand, it requires that the rights of doctoral tutors be guaranteed and strictly regulated at the same time, and tutors must be firmly supported in strict academic management of doctoral students in accordance with regulations.
The second is to improve the selection system and strengthen job training.
In view of the lack of strict hiring system for doctoral tutors in individual training units, or the practice of simply determining the qualifications of tutors based on scientific research funding, the training units are required to formulate comprehensive selection criteria for doctoral tutors and strictly implement the selection procedures.
In response to the insufficient training of doctoral tutors by some training units, it is proposed to establish a three-level training system with national model demonstrations, provincial key guarantees, and full coverage of training units, to promote doctoral tutors to fully understand education policies in a timely manner, update educational concepts, and improve guidance ability.
The third is to improve the evaluation system and establish an incentive mechanism.
Emphasize the improvement of evaluation methods, establish a comprehensive evaluation and comprehensive evaluation system for doctoral supervisors, strengthen the evaluation of the teaching process, and establish a scientific and reasonable evaluation mechanism.
Attach importance to the use of evaluation results of doctoral tutors, encourage local training units to select excellent tutors and excellent teams, increase publicity, promote successful experience, and attach importance to the demonstration and leading role of excellent tutors and excellent teams.
The fourth is to highlight dynamic adjustments and improve the change and exit procedures.
On the one hand, promote training units to establish dynamic and flexible adjustment methods, fully respect the wishes of both parties to determine the tutoring relationship, and improve the tutor change system; on the other hand, for tutors who are not suitable to continue to guide doctoral students, they are required to leave their tutor posts in a timely manner and do it properly It involves the follow-up training of doctoral students.
Fifth, standardize job setting and improve the supervision mechanism.
On the one hand, in view of the current situation of some training units blindly expanding the size of doctoral tutors under the condition of insufficient school conditions, the training units are required to scientifically determine the size of tutor positions; on the other hand, in view of the situation that some tutors have too many doctoral students, The training unit is required to reasonably determine the quota for supervisors to supervise doctoral students to ensure the energy input of supervisors and the quality of training.
The person in charge stated that the "Opinions" are a guiding document for the post management of doctoral tutors for a period of time in the future. The next step will be to implement the "Opinions" and the spirit of the National Postgraduate Education Conference, and implement the "Ministry of Education, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Finance on Accelerating The "Opinions on the Reform and Development of Postgraduate Education in the New Era" requires a combination of requirements to guide all local training units to implement them and ensure that they achieve practical results.