China News Service, January 15th. According to the website of the Ministry of Education, the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and the Ministry of Education have recently revised and issued the "Measures for the Evaluation of Degree Authorization Points" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"). The person in charge pointed out that external quality should be strengthened. Supervise, strictly regulate management, and coordinate the use of degree authorization points qualification evaluation, quality special inspections, and random inspections of dissertations to strengthen the evaluation and diagnosis of the training system and its implementation; this revision refines the requirements for the self-evaluation stage of degree-granting units. It is clear that the degree-granting unit's self-evaluation is a diagnostic evaluation, and the conditions for running a school and the construction of the training system of the degree-granting institution should be comprehensively checked.
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In response to the background of the revision and issuance of the "Measures", the person in charge said: Recently, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have issued the "Overall Plan for Deepening Educational Evaluation Reform in the New Era", which calls for strengthening process evaluation, emphasizing the adherence to the fundamental standard of the effectiveness of establishing morality and fostering people. The school's internal quality assurance system.
The National Postgraduate Education Conference proposed to strengthen external quality supervision, strictly regulate management, and coordinate the use of qualification evaluation of degree authorization points, special quality inspections, and random inspections of dissertations to strengthen the evaluation and diagnosis of the training system and its implementation.
The first round of periodic qualification evaluation for degree authorization points was launched in 2014, and the evaluation results will be released in 2020. Out of the 2292 sampling points, 2251 degree authorization points were evaluated as "qualified" and 8 degree authorization points were selected as "qualified". As "unqualified", the result of random evaluation of 33 degree authorization points was "remediation within a limited time."
This evaluation conducted a comprehensive "physical examination" for the existing degree authorization points, broke the lifelong system of degree authorization points, promoted the establishment of a self-evaluation system for degree-granting units, and guaranteed the basic quality of degree and graduate education.
However, some procedural and operational problems have been exposed during the evaluation process, such as the lack of supervision of the quality status of degree authorization points and self-evaluation in the self-evaluation stage, insufficient connection between qualification evaluation and the basic requirements of degree authorization review applications, and evaluation procedures Sexual requirements are not specific enough, etc. It is urgent to revise and improve the "Measures".
At the same time, the first round of periodic qualification evaluation and the good experience and good practices accumulated in the practice of special qualification evaluation in recent years also urgently need to be fixed in the form of the "Measures" to further guide the evaluation practice and give full play to the role of quality supervision.
In accordance with the spirit of the central document and the requirements of the National Graduate Education Conference, combined with the implementation of the first round of degree authorization points’ periodic qualification evaluation and outstanding issues in the work, we have made corresponding amendments to the "Measures" to strengthen process evaluation and process management, especially for The evaluation and diagnosis of the training system and its implementation have further improved the evaluation procedures, highlighted the bottom line awareness and quality awareness, strengthened the implementation of the system and standardized management, and promoted the improvement of the quality of graduate education.
The document has been submitted to the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council for approval.
What are the main principles for the revision of the Measures?
The person in charge pointed out: This revision insists on focusing on stability and seeking innovation while maintaining stability. On the basis of maintaining the stability of the overall system design, it mainly highlights three principles: First, keep the bottom line.
Strengthen the bottom line thinking, focus on the quality of postgraduate training and the quality of degree award, and the guarantee of discipline conditions and the improvement of the quality of talent training are unified.
The second is to implement responsibilities.
Carry out the central government's deployment requirements for promoting the high-quality development of degree and graduate education, and promote the implementation of the main responsibility of quality assurance by degree-granting units by strengthening quality supervision and standard management.
The third is to focus on practical results.
Further clarify the power and responsibilities of the subject review group, professional degree teaching committee, provincial degree committee, and authorized units, improve the evaluation procedure, strengthen the application of results and the connection of policies, and make qualified evaluation a system of "long teeth" and guide Universities focus on key points, condense their characteristics, and improve quality.
In response to the question of "how to strengthen the main responsibility of the quality assurance of the degree-granting unit", the person in charge said: This revision refines the requirements for the self-evaluation stage of the degree-granting unit.
The first is to clarify that the degree-granting unit's self-assessment is a diagnostic evaluation. It is necessary to comprehensively check the conditions of the degree-granting sites and the construction of the training system, carefully look for outstanding issues affecting quality, and continue to improve during the self-assessment period to condense its characteristics.
The second is to refine the requirements for self-assessment procedures to provide guidance for degree-granting units to conduct self-assessment in an orderly manner.
Make detailed regulations on the formulation of self-assessment implementation plans, report writing, information monitoring, expert review, result identification, material uploading, and information reporting.
The third is to regularly compile and publish the "Annual Report on the Quality of Graduate Education Development" and "Annual Report on the Construction of Degree Authorization Sites" of the unit, strengthen normalized quality self-inspection, and play a role of social supervision.
How to reflect the bottom line requirements of qualification evaluation for degree authorization points?
The person in charge said: The qualification evaluation of degree authorization points is an important part of the degree authorization review system. The degree authorization is a qualification for running a school for a certain period of time, rather than being authorized once and for all.
The degree authorization point must tighten the quality string at all times, and must not break the bottom line.
In the periodic qualification evaluation, the basic requirements for the degree authorization point application that is being implemented when the round of evaluation is started are the bottom line; in the special qualification evaluation, the degree authorization point under evaluation reaches the qualified bottom line standard, which is the degree implemented when it is authorized The basic conditions for the authorization point application are to ensure the unity of the "empowerment" and "exercise" conditions for the degree authorization point.
The basic condition of periodic qualification evaluation is the bottom line for the quality of degree authorization points. The self-assessment of degree authorization points and the standards and requirements of expert evaluation at the random evaluation stage are not lower than the basic conditions of qualification evaluation for degree authorization points.
The "Elements for the Selection of Degree Authorization Points" distinguishes academic degrees and professional degrees, and requires the evaluation expert group to formulate targeted evaluation standards based on the characteristics of different disciplines or professional degree categories, and emphasizes the construction of conditions for the study of this degree to support graduate study and scientific research , Organizational guarantee and other conditions, as well as ideological and political education such as the opening of ideological and political theory courses, course ideological and political, postgraduate instructor team building, and postgraduate party building work.
How to improve the evaluation procedure to ensure that the qualified evaluation achieves practical results?
The person in charge said: First, highlight the role of the expert group in the degree authorization review and discussion, promote the provincial degree committee to strengthen the construction of the expert team, and provide academic support for the regional degree and graduate education development plan.
The "Measures" stipulate in detail the rights and responsibilities of the evaluation expert group in terms of the composition of experts, the formulation of the evaluation plan, the feedback of evaluation opinions, and the handling of objections.
The second is the detailed identification method of the assessment result of the chemical site authorization point, which makes more clear regulations on the number of experts and the voting ratio, and classifies and explains the situation of specific result identification and suggestions for handling.
The third is to add objection handling procedures in the selective evaluation stage of the education administrative department. If there are objections to the evaluation results, an appeal can be filed. The expert group or the provincial degree committee should form a special group to conduct on-site inspections of the degree authorization points that raised the objections. After the deliberation, comments are formed.
The fourth is to clarify the situation of increasing the selection ratio, increase the selection ratio for degree-granting units that have experienced serious academic misconduct, and degree-granting units with other problems in talent training and the quality of degree-granting, and stipulate that the dissertation within the current evaluation round The degree authorization points that have more problems in random inspection must be selected.
How to achieve an effective connection between the qualification evaluation of degree authorization points and other systems?
The person in charge introduced: The qualification evaluation of degree authorization points is an important part of my country's degree authorization review system and graduate training management system.
The "Measures" strengthen policy linkage and application of results, play a combination of quality assurance, urge degree-granting units to strengthen discipline construction planning, proactively implement the main responsibilities of quality assurance, improve the quality assurance system, and improve the quality of graduate education.
On the one hand, in line with the relevant provisions of the "Measures for Dynamic Adjustment of Degree Authorization Points", it clearly stipulates that degree-granting units shall not apply for revocation of degree authorization in the periodic qualification evaluation of degree authorization points, so as to avoid degree authorization points "evading" evaluation.
On the other hand, it is clear that the evaluation results are linked to other policies such as the construction of "double first-class", the arrangement of graduate enrollment plans, and the addition of degree authorization points.