2024-09-26
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jimu news reporter cao xuejiao
recently, the news that some universities have adjusted their undergraduate majors has aroused discussion from all walks of life. on september 26, at a press conference held by the state council information office, relevant officials from the ministry of education introduced the issues related to the adjustment of undergraduate majors and stated that this year the ministry of education will add 1,673 majors that are urgently needed for national strategies and cancel 1,670 majors that are not suitable for economic and social development.
at the meeting, wu yan, vice minister of the ministry of education, introduced that there are two basic understandings of undergraduate education: one is that "talent cultivation is the foundation, and undergraduate education is the root", and the other is that "if the undergraduate education is not solid, the earth will shake". this shows that undergraduate education plays an irreplaceable and important basic role in higher education. the reason why undergraduate education is important is that, looking upward, it is directly connected to graduate education and is responsible for providing excellent "roughs" for graduate education; looking downward, it is directly connected to basic education, especially high school education, and its standards and direction directly affect the direction of basic education reform; looking outward, 80% of the students (undergraduate, master and doctoral) in colleges and universities are undergraduates, and the quality of undergraduate education directly determines the quality, level and contribution of this main force.
wu yan said that there are two sentences to explain how to run an undergraduate program: one is "majors are the basic unit of talent cultivation", and the other is "courses are the core elements of talent cultivation". teachers' teaching, students' learning, as well as courses, textbooks, internships, experiments, and practical training should all be integrated into the undergraduate program platform.
the press conference (photo source: guoxin.com)
there are 1,308 undergraduate colleges and universities in china, with undergraduate majors in 12 categories, 93 professional categories, and 816 majors. there are 62,000 undergraduate majors nationwide. over the past 12 years, the ministry of education has added 21,000 undergraduate majors and cancelled or stopped recruiting 12,000 majors that are not suitable for economic and social development. the number of adjustments to the discipline and major structure is sufficient and the intensity is strong enough. this year, the ministry of education has added 1,673 majors that are urgently needed for national strategies and cancelled 1,670 majors that are not suitable for economic and social development. the intensity of the adjustment is unprecedented.
in the next step, the ministry of education will implement and improve the adaptation mechanism between talent training and economic and social development needs, dynamically adjust the requirements of disciplines and majors, and work hard on three degrees of adaptation:
first, improve the adaptability of undergraduate major construction to the urgent needs of national strategies. first, we must deepen the construction of the "four new" disciplines, namely new engineering, new medicine, new agriculture, and new liberal arts. secondly, focus on the forefront of science and technology and key national strategic areas, layout emerging majors, expand the distribution of urgently needed and scarce majors, and especially improve the responsiveness of university major settings and talent training to high-quality development, and cultivate national strategic talents and urgently needed and scarce talents in a more targeted manner.
second, we need to improve the compatibility between the professional construction of colleges and universities, especially local colleges and universities, and regional development. at the beginning of this year, the ministry of education conducted an assessment of the matching degree between college professional settings and regional development in heilongjiang, zhejiang, henan, chongqing, shaanxi and other provinces and cities, and will further expand the scope next year. through this measure, we will actively promote local governments to combine regional development, build a linkage development mechanism between higher education and industrial clusters, and better serve regional development.
third, we need to improve the compatibility between undergraduate major construction and students' all-round development. empower professional connotation construction with artificial intelligence, optimize talent training programs in a targeted manner, improve professional knowledge maps and ability maps, and comprehensively improve the quality of education and teaching. promote colleges and universities to correctly grasp the relationship between knowledge learning and all-round development (the relationship between intellectual education and the "five educations" of morality, intelligence, physical education, aesthetics, and labor), and strengthen the cultivation of core literacy.
(source: jimu news)
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