What happened to higher education in China?

Higher education in China has become universal.

During the period of 10, China's higher education changed from popular higher education in the past to popular higher education; From the past incremental reform to the stock reform; From traditional talent training mode to innovative talent training mode.

China has built the largest higher education system in the world, with a total of 44.3 million students. The gross enrollment rate of higher education increased from 30% in 20 12 to 57.8% in 202 1 2, an increase of 27.8 percentage points, achieving a historic leap. Higher education has entered the stage of popularization, and more people have the opportunity to receive higher education.

expert opinion/advice

Xie Weihe, a professor at Tsinghua University, believes that based on talent training, China's higher education is changing from the traditional talent training mode to the innovative talent training mode. There are three signs:

First of all, innovative ideas have become the common sense of higher education. Cultivating innovative talents is becoming a conscious concrete action of teachers, administrators and even students in the field of higher education in China.

Second, the new liberal arts, new engineering, new agricultural science and new medicine, including the construction of first-class majors and first-class courses, which have been carried out in recent years, are also becoming a new platform for the priority development of education and the cultivation and growth of innovative talents.

Third, China's higher education is becoming an important supporting force of the national innovation and development strategy. "