The latest reform plan of higher education

The latest reform plan

Official website, the Ministry of Education announced that the Ministry of Education and other five departments recently issued the "Reform Plan for Adjusting and Optimizing the Specialty Setting of General Higher Education" (hereinafter referred to as the "Reform Plan").

The National Business Daily reporter noted that the reform plan released this time involves many heavy contents such as optimizing and adjusting disciplines and majors in colleges and universities and revoking professional conditions in colleges and universities, which has aroused widespread concern in the whole society.

For example, the "Reform Plan" proposes that by 2025, about 20% of disciplines and majors in colleges and universities will be optimized and adjusted, and disciplines and majors that are not suitable for economic and social development will be eliminated; It is necessary to build a number of future technical colleges, modern industrial colleges, high-level public health colleges and outstanding engineers colleges.

Official website, the Ministry of Education announced that the Ministry of Education and other five departments recently issued the "Reform Plan for Adjusting and Optimizing the Specialty Setting of General Higher Education" (hereinafter referred to as the "Reform Plan").

The National Business Daily reporter noted that the reform plan released this time involves many heavy contents such as optimizing and adjusting disciplines and majors in colleges and universities and revoking professional conditions in colleges and universities, which has aroused widespread concern in the whole society.

For example, the "Reform Plan" proposes that by 2025, about 20% of disciplines and majors in colleges and universities will be optimized and adjusted, and disciplines and majors that are not suitable for economic and social development will be eliminated; It is necessary to build a number of future technical colleges, modern industrial colleges, high-level public health colleges and outstanding engineers colleges.

In addition, the "Reform Plan" also clarifies that the adjustment of the stock of disciplines and majors should be strengthened and the exit mechanism should be improved. The majors that have not enrolled in colleges and universities for five consecutive years shall be revoked.

265438+ In a written interview with the National Business Daily, President Xiong of the 20th Century Institute of Education analyzed the major adjustment of this discipline, and said that the Regulations on the Administration of Undergraduate Major Setting in Ordinary Colleges and Universities issued by the Ministry of Education on 20 12 proposed that colleges and universities should actively adapt to the needs of national and regional economic and social development and should follow the laws of higher education and talent growth. In the same year, the Ministry of Education proposed to establish a dynamic adjustment mechanism for disciplines and majors, and began to encourage universities to independently adjust and cancel the "surplus low-quality dislocation" majors.

Judging from the reality, there is also a phenomenon of blindly chasing "hot spots" in the initial stage of specialty setting in colleges and universities in China, which leads to many new majors that do not meet the orientation and conditions of the school and have no characteristics and high quality.

Dean Xiong emphasized that this time it is proposed to optimize and adjust about 20% of disciplines and majors in colleges and universities by 2025, and the pace of adjustment is unprecedented. To do this optimization and adjustment well, it is necessary for relevant departments and schools to carry out their respective duties, promote the education field and the reform of education and teaching in colleges and universities in a two-way way way, strengthen supervision and improve service reform.

Students of mathematics, physics and other basic sciences in Qiang Jian.

The "Reform Plan" proposes to "set up a number of new disciplines and specialties that adapt to new technologies, new industries, new formats and new models". What fields will the newly established disciplines and majors focus on in the future?

In this regard, the "Reform Plan" pointed out that advantages and characteristics should be highlighted in the future. Guided by the construction of new engineering, new medicine, new agricultural science and new liberal arts, strengthen superior disciplines and form a highland for talent training; Do a good job in characteristic disciplines and realize classified development and characteristic development. At the same time, it is necessary to build a number of future technical colleges, modern industrial colleges, high-level public health colleges and outstanding engineers colleges, and build a number of colleges with professional characteristics.

The "Reform Plan" emphasizes that it is necessary to strengthen the disciplines of basic sciences such as mathematics, physics and chemistry, and appropriately expand the layout of disciplines that are in short supply such as astronomy. At the same time, we should deepen the construction of new engineering courses. Actively adapt to the trend of industrial development, actively serve the strategy of manufacturing a strong country, deepen the construction of new engineering and accelerate the adjustment of discipline structure around "new engineering majors and new requirements of engineering majors".

It is worth noting that the "Reform Plan" also specifically proposes "strengthening the construction of new medical departments".

The "Reform Plan" is clear, facing people's life and health, implementing the concept of "great health" and accelerating the construction of a medical discipline professional system that serves the whole life cycle and the whole health process. Focus on concept content, methods and techniques, standard evaluation, etc. , comprehensively transform and upgrade the existing medical specialty.

Dean Xiong told the reporter of the National Business Daily that in the process of expanding the enrollment of higher education, many domestic undergraduate colleges have chosen new majors in order to rapidly expand their scale. The humanities and social sciences majors with low running costs are far greater than those of science and engineering majors, which leads to a severe employment situation for graduates of related majors. It is imperative to optimize the setting of disciplines and specialties from attaching importance to scale development to improving quality.