China News Service, September 28. According to the website of the Ministry of Education, the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and the Ministry of Education recently issued the "Opinions on Further Strictly Regulating Degree and Graduate Education Quality Management" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), the Ministry of Education's Degree Management The head of the Graduate Education Department (Office of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council) answered questions from reporters on relevant issues.

The person in charge pointed out that fraudulent dissertations will be included in the national credit information sharing platform as credit records.

Data map: Candidates who participated in the postgraduate admissions examination entered the examination room one after another.

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　　The person in charge said that the improvement of the quality of postgraduate education should in the final analysis be reflected in the strict self-discipline and self-improvement of every postgraduate student, and it depends on strict control by every degree-granting unit.

The more prominent problem now is that the implementation of the system is not strict and not in place.

　　For this reason, the "Opinions" take the degree-granting unit as the main body of responsibility, and require that the relevant systems be supplemented and strengthened according to new changes and new requirements in the situation, strengthen the quality management of the entire process of enrollment, training, and degree award, and implement the main body of each link Responsibilities, especially to move forward the quality barrier, improve and implement the postgraduate diversion and exit mechanism, and for graduate students who are not suitable for continuing to study for a degree, we should divert and exit as soon as possible in accordance with the training plan.

　　At the same time, the majority of tutors must earnestly perform their duties of establishing morality, and the management department must implement supervision and execution throughout the entire management process, and resolutely "squeeze water" for the degree to prevent "going through the field" and "doing false work."

　　The person in charge pointed out that in accordance with the laws of education, postgraduate training is made up of multiple links, and the weakness is often the pain point and difficulty of postgraduate education quality management.

The "Opinions" emphasizes that degree-granting units must use real and practical measures based on the existing system and in light of actual conditions.

　　The first is to strictly control the first pass of the enrollment examination, implement the main responsibility of enrollment, benchmark the national education examination standards, further improve the self-proposed work norms, and ensure that the enrollment work is standardized and transparent.

　　The second is to strengthen quality standards, according to different disciplines or professional degree categories, referring to the unified requirements of relevant documents, according to the unit's school positioning and characteristics, detailing the quality standards for degree awarding, as well as the dissertation specifications, review rules and verification methods.

　　The third is to strictly implement the all-round and full-process management of degree awarding, grasp the key points of thesis opening, mid-term assessment, review, defense, and degree evaluation, refine the process, compact responsibilities, implement a system of public disclosure of thesis defense, and refrain from defense It is a formality, and records and archives key links.

　　The fourth is to strengthen the staged assessment, move forward the quality inspection gate, improve and implement the graduate student diversion and withdrawal mechanism, and strictly regulate the management of the school status.

　　Fifth, it is to establish a good relationship with students as the goal, and to regard good teacher ethics and style as the primary selection condition for tutors, to ensure that major policies and measures are implemented in the guidance link in time.

　　The sixth is to improve the defense and appeal handling mechanisms and rules for supervisors and graduate students in handling decisions, and establish legitimate rights and interests protection and relief mechanisms.

　　The person in charge said that the quality management is strictly regulated and the main body of responsibility is the degree-granting unit.

The education administrative department needs to do a good job in and afterwards guidance and supervision. The Ministry of Education will resolutely implement the State Council’s deployment and requirements on deepening "delegation, management, and service". While expanding the autonomy of degree-granting units, improve the Ministry of Education and provincial education. Administrative departments and degree-granting units have a three-level quality monitoring system and inspection and supervision mechanism. Standardize and strengthen postgraduate examination work, prevent and deal with academic misconduct work into the scope of national education supervision, and include fraudulent dissertations as credit records and include them in national credit information bdfgh.

　　Continue to strengthen the use of various supervision methods such as qualification evaluation of degree authorization points, random inspections of dissertations, and special inspections of quality, in parallel with academic punishment, and "zero tolerance" for violations of regulations to step on the "red line" and "bottom line", and comply with laws and regulations Give party disciplinary sanctions.

　　For degree-granting units that have many problems in the management links of enrollment, training, and degree awarding, as well as outstanding problems in teacher ethics, school spirit, and academic style, they will report on specific conditions, rectify within a limited time, strictly control enrollment plans, and restrict new degree authorization Processing methods such as declaration.

For degree authorization points with serious problems, the degree authorization will be resolutely revoked in accordance with laws and regulations.