How to do a good job of setting up undergraduate majors and guaranteeing the quality of construction of new majors? The Ministry of Education detailed?

People's Daily News Beijing, February 24 (Reporter Sun Jing, Li Yihuan) Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the 2022 undergraduate professional filing and approval results of the general institutions of higher learning, new 1961 professional points, revoke 804 professional points, 31 kinds of new majors included in the "undergraduate professional directory of the general institutions of higher learning". The person in charge of the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education said that in the professional setting and adjustment work, the first is to serve the demand, take the initiative to serve the needs of the national strategy, regional economic and social and industrial development, and set up majors that are in line with the positioning of the school and the characteristics of the school. The second is to pay attention to quality, requiring the establishment of additional majors should meet the basic requirements of the National Standard for Teaching Quality of Undergraduate Majors in General Institutions of Higher Education, with a reasonable talent training program, with teacher conditions, teaching resources, experimental and internship conditions, etc.. Thirdly, to optimize the structure, support and encourage colleges and universities to break down the barriers of disciplines and majors, continuously deepen the construction of new engineering, new medical science, new agricultural science and new liberal arts, and establish new majors of cross-fertilization; to promote colleges and universities to actively carry out the optimization, adjustment, upgrading, substitution and new construction of majors; to cultivate characteristic and advantageous major clusters in different types of colleges and universities; to upgrade and transform traditional majors; to eliminate majors that don't adapt to the social demand and don't conform to the orientation of schools; to accelerate the cultivation of talents in short supply. The specialties that do not meet the needs of the society and do not conform to the school's orientation should be eliminated, so as to accelerate the training of talents in short supply. Specialization is the basic platform and basic unit of talent cultivation in colleges and universities, and the quality and structure of specialization are directly related to the ability of higher education to support and serve economic and social development, and directly affect the effectiveness of colleges and universities in cultivating morality and educating people. In the professional setting work, how to guarantee the quality of the construction of new majors? The person in charge of the introduction, the Ministry of Education through policy guidance, expert advice and information services, etc., to promote colleges and universities to strengthen the quality assurance of newly established specialties. Procedurally, universities are required to combine the needs of economic and social development, professional development planning and teachers, conditions of operation, etc., against the "National Standards for the Teaching Quality of Undergraduate Specialties in Colleges and Universities", rigorous demonstration of the necessity and feasibility of the proposed new professional, the development of personnel training programs, on-campus review and publicity before the network can be declared. In order to highlight the employment-oriented aspects, the Ministry of Education explicitly requires colleges and universities in the declaration of additional specialties, to fully investigate the needs of society, to detailed research data on the demand for talent as the reason and basis for the establishment of additional specialties, to strengthen the communication with employers, and to clarify the specific requirements of the community on the newly established specialties. The reporter understands that, during the period of concentrated publicity of professional declaration materials, the Ministry of Education specially organized more than 4,300 experts to carry out online reviews, and put forward more than 38,000 opinions and suggestions on the declared professional talent training programs, faculty, teaching conditions, etc., and through the platform of real-time feedback to the corresponding colleges and universities, guiding colleges and universities to continue to improve the scientific nature of the newly established professions, reasonableness and standardization, and to guarantee the basic quality of the construction of the professions. Quality. (Responsibility: Li Yihuan, Qin Hua)Share to let more people see