Today, Tsinghua University officially released "Several Opinions on Further Deepening the Reform of Graduate Education in the New Development Stage" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions on Reform of Graduate Education") and "Several Opinions on Improving and Developing the University Innovation System" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions on Innovation System").
The two Opinions thoroughly implement the relevant instructions and strategic plans of the Central Government, fully analyze the opportunities and challenges faced at present and in the future period, take serving the major strategic needs of the Party and the country as the guide, aim at "real problems", take "real measures", and systematically and innovatively To design solutions with leading and Tsinghua characteristics, to promote the university's career to a new level, and to blow the charge of postgraduate education reform for the new development stage.
The world today is undergoing a great change unprecedented in a century, and a new round of technological revolution and industrial change is accelerating. The need for higher education and the need for scientific knowledge and excellent talents for the development of the Party and the country is more urgent than ever. Postgraduate education is at the top of national education, which is an important combination of the first productive force of science and technology, the first driving force of innovation and the first resource of talents, and an important cornerstone of national development and social progress.
In June 2020, Tsinghua University took the lead in completing the reform of postgraduate degree evaluation standard among domestic universities. Conference. On October 8, Tsinghua University held the first conference dedicated to postgraduate education in its history. Today, on the basis of full discussion and consensus, Tsinghua University released the Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Postgraduate Education, which demonstrates the university's determination and confidence in deepening the reform of postgraduate education comprehensively.
The formulation of the Opinions on Postgraduate Education Reform is an important initiative to implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on the work of postgraduate education, the spirit of the National Education Conference and the National Conference on Postgraduate Education, to further deepen the reform of postgraduate education in the new development stage, to comprehensively improve the quality of high-level talent cultivation, and to better serve the development needs of the Party and the national cause.
The Opinions on the Reform of Postgraduate Education points out that it should adhere to the fundamental task of establishing moral education, adhere to the educational policy of serving the people, serving the CPC in governing the country, serving the consolidation and development of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, serving the reform and opening up and socialist modernization, and be oriented to serving the strategic needs of the Party and the country and improving the innovation ability of postgraduates, and accelerate the construction of a world-class high-level talent cultivation In order to serve the Party's national strategic needs and improve the innovation ability of postgraduates, the university should accelerate the construction of a world-class high-level talent training system, cultivate high-level innovative talents with mission and excellence, and make greater contributions to the construction of a strong socialist modern country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Adhering to reform and innovation, highlighting the problem-oriented and goal-oriented, and enhancing the ability to independently cultivate high-level top-notch innovative talents; adhering to open integration, and enhancing the ability of postgraduate education to serve economic and social development and promote the construction of human destiny community.
Only by taking "real initiatives" and solving "real problems" can we truly achieve the goal of deepening the reform of postgraduate education. Tsinghua University has proposed 12 initiatives in response to the 21 major problems faced by the reform and development of postgraduate education as summarized in the university-wide seminar, taking into account the problems at the overall level of postgraduate education proposed by the National Conference on Postgraduate Education, with emphasis on
Improving the ideological and political education system of graduate students. Emphasize that morality is the cornerstone of high-level talent cultivation. Cohesion of the "three whole education" synergy, highlighting the mission of nurturing people for the Party and the country. Focus on the integration of the ideological and political curriculum, the course of thought politics and guided thought politics.
Strengthen the construction of instructors. Build a team of instructors with positive morality, strict teaching style, active research and high academic level, strengthen the first academic responsibility of teachers to teach and educate people, inherit the fine tradition of school guidance, promote noble teacher style, cultivate rigorous academic style, and improve the mechanism of protecting the rights and interests of guidance.
Improve the structure of disciplines and specialties. According to the needs of the Party and the country as well as the requirements for cultivating innovative ability of postgraduates, the university will lay out and build relevant emerging disciplines in advance, add several high-quality cross-disciplines, and build a number of professional degree programs serving economic and social development.
Establishing a new mode of cultivation through this research. Based on the growth of students and the enhancement of their abilities, the university will promote the coherence of this research and coordinate the reform of graduate and undergraduate education. The university will realize the integrated design of the training program of this research, strengthen the curriculum connection, promote the mutual recognition and conversion of credits, and improve the flexible academic system of this research. Innovate the integration and articulation of comprehensive thesis training for undergraduates and postgraduate training links.
Strengthen the construction of postgraduate courses and teaching materials. Further improve the postgraduate curriculum system, improve the frontier, research and challenge of the curriculum, highlight the cultivation of innovative thinking and innovative ability, and strict course assessment requirements. Improve the quality assessment and supervision mechanism of course teaching. Establish a long-term mechanism to support the construction of high-level postgraduate teaching materials.
Take advantage of the integration of science and education to educate people. Encourage the transformation of scientific research achievements into course teaching resources, encourage teachers active in the forefront of academic research to undertake teaching of graduate courses, and encourage graduate students to cultivate inherent and lasting academic character, academic sentiment and academic aspirations in the process of independent inquiry and creation of new knowledge.
Improve the mechanism of education and industry integration. Strengthen the practical teaching of postgraduates and enhance the nurturing effect of social practice for doctoral students and practical internship for master students. Enhance the practical innovation ability of graduate students in discovering real problems, solving big problems and defining new propositions.
Improve the quality assurance system of postgraduate education. Strengthen the management of postgraduate cultivation process, give full play to the quality control of cultivation links such as qualification examination, topic selection report, final academic report and dissertation defense, and increase the efforts of triage. Insist on taking the dissertation as the main basis for degree evaluation. Further strengthen the guidance of postgraduate employment.
Establish a long-term mechanism for the construction of academic style of postgraduates. Strengthen the education on academic integrity, academic norms and ethics of postgraduates, encourage dedicated academic research, abandon academic utilitarianism, and create a clean and upright academic atmosphere. Fully stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of graduate students' academic research, and play the role of demonstration of advanced models of academic culture and good academic style.
Upgrade the level of international cooperation in postgraduate education. Continuously promote joint training of graduate students with world-class universities and top universities in countries and regions along the "Belt and Road". Further enhance the quality of international student recruitment and improve the system of international student awards and support.
Build a comprehensive postgraduate development support system. Improve the support system for the cultivation and development of graduate students' interests, and promote their physical and mental health and comprehensive development. Improve the refinement level of career development guidance for graduate students.
Strengthen the organization and implementation of postgraduate education reform. Adhere to the overall leadership of the Party Committee and strengthen theoretical research and practical innovation of postgraduate education. Fully mobilize the autonomy and creativity of teachers and students, and implement the main responsibility of postgraduate training of faculties and departments, the first responsibility of postgraduate training of instructors, and the coordination service and supervision functions of relevant departments.
The "University Innovation System" is proposed to start a new journey of scientific research and innovation. Since the 21st century, global scientific and technological innovation has entered an unprecedentedly intensive and active period, and a new round of technological revolution and industrial change is reshaping the global innovation map. University innovation system is an important part of the national innovation system. The release of the Opinions on Innovation System is an important symbol, which is an important layout of Tsinghua University to systematically promote scientific research and innovation under the framework of "Innovation System", aiming to thoroughly implement the important remarks of General Secretary Xi Jinping on insisting on innovation as the first driving force to lead development and the series of strategic plans of the Party Central Committee on science and technology innovation. It aims to serve the construction of a modern and strong country, accelerate the improvement and development of the university's innovation system, and start a new journey of scientific research and innovation.
The Opinions on Innovation System clearly elaborates on what kind of university innovation system Tsinghua University wants to build, proposing to improve and develop a university innovation system based on a healthy academic ecology, guaranteed by a sound system and smooth mechanism of academic governance, with the goal of producing first-class academic results and cultivating first-class talents, continuously marching into the breadth and depth of science and technology, and becoming a strategic scientific and technological force serving national development. .
The "Innovation System" points out that the university should implement the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, face the world's scientific and technological frontier, the main battlefield of the economy, the major needs of the country and the people's life and health, deeply participate in the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, promote the cross-fertilization of science, technology, literature and medicine, and achieve high-quality development of various disciplines. Inheriting the fine traditions of the university, adhering to the scientific research tenet of "topping the sky, standing on the ground, and making people", the university will continue to deepen the reform, innovate the research model, accelerate the construction of a world-leading university innovation system, and serve the construction of a strong country in science and technology, education, talent and culture. The basic principle is to serve the country, educate people, and lead in culture and academics.
Make a decision and then move, and gather consensus to open a new situation. The Opinions on Innovation System is an important result of fully coalescing the thinking of the whole university staff and students on the construction of university innovation system. It is a valuable tradition of Tsinghua University to hold regular seminars on research work. During the critical period of the fight against the epidemic, the university tried to overcome the difficulties and launched the 18th Research Seminar in March 2020 as scheduled, setting the theme of the meeting as "Innovation in Research Model and Construction of Innovation System of World-class University". It took half a year for the seminar to be completed and the preliminary results were formed.
Facing the outstanding problems and stimulating innovation momentum. Through comprehensive research and in-depth analysis, the 18th Scientific Research Seminar identified 20 outstanding problems that restrict the high-quality development of scientific research in the university. The Opinions on Innovation System addresses the specific problems and puts forward 13 construction priorities, including.
Create a healthy academic ecology. Adhere to academic freedom, promote academic democracy, increase academic openness, improve academic evaluation, adhere to academic integrity, comply with research ethics, promote the construction of academic communities, form an academic atmosphere that dares to question, and enhance respect for and protection of intellectual property rights.
Improve the academic governance mechanism. Respect academic power, give full play to the roles of academic committees, degree committees and teaching committees, and respect the role of academic communities in academic affairs. Classify and apply different incentive mechanisms, and coordinate and optimize the allocation of school resources.
Innovate the organization model of scientific research. Support free exploration in the field of basic research, establish organized research with the goal of supporting breakthroughs in key core technologies, strengthen interdisciplinary crossover, and build a high-level research team and service support team that can adapt to the needs of different research organization models.
Strengthen the "0 to 1" basic research. We place the highest priority on enhancing original innovation capabilities, respecting the academic judgment of teachers and academic communities, and encouraging free exploration by teachers and students. Cross-disciplinary research is an important source of original innovation, and the institutional mechanism to promote cross-disciplinary research should be further improved.
Strengthen organized scientific research oriented to major problems. Inherit the successful experience of serving the major needs of the country by promoting "big crossover" of disciplines and forming "big teams" to carry out scientific and technological research. Establish an evaluation mechanism and guarantee mechanism for organized scientific research on major issues.
Promote the layout and construction of disciplines. Stabilize and support the development of basic disciplines, strengthen the construction of disciplines in strategic and key areas, and actively develop new interdisciplinary disciplines. Insist on the internal development of disciplines, and improve the mechanism of dynamic adjustment and effectiveness evaluation of disciplines.
Promote the innovative development of humanities and social sciences. Vigorously promote intellectual change and academic innovation in philosophy and social sciences, advocate the study of Chinese problems, promote the production of leading innovative achievements in thought and art, and promote the deep integration of humanities and social sciences with science and medicine.
Build a high-level team of innovative talents. Attract a group of world-renowned top talents, gather a group of first-class scholars active in the international academic frontier, create a group of leading talents serving the major strategic needs of the country, and cultivate a group of young scientific and technological talents with development potential and innovative vitality.
Enhance the level of cultivation of high-level talents. Vigorously promote research-based teaching, continuously strengthen creative innovation and entrepreneurship education, and strengthen the value shaping, ability cultivation and knowledge transfer to students through scientific research practice. Actively expand corporate and social resources, and promote the flow of high-level talents and scientific research cooperation between schools and enterprises.
Build a new think tank system. Build a new think tank system with a national high-end think tank as the leader and radiating think tank institutions across the university, and actively layout strategic, forward-looking and reserve think tank research. Deepen strategic research and policy research in the fields of education, science and technology in response to major real-life issues.
Strengthen the construction of major science and technology innovation bases mainly in the State Key Laboratories. Promote the reform of State Key Laboratories and give them greater autonomy in terms of "human, financial and material", so that they can become the initiators of major national scientific and technological tasks, the organizers of leading national scientific and technological forces in related fields and the promoters of major international scientific and technological cooperation.
Promote university-university-enterprise collaborative innovation. Universities and enterprises are the twin engines of innovation. Strengthen multi-level, forward-looking and strategic cooperation with domestic and foreign enterprises with industrial influence, deeply participate in the implementation of national regional development strategies, actively participate in the construction of new local R&D institutions, improve the system of cooperation between industry, university and research, and perfect the system of transferring and transforming achievements.
Enhance the level of international academic exchanges and cooperation. Promote the establishment of a new model of dynamic and diversified international scientific and technological cooperation, actively participate in promoting major international scientific research projects, and strive to play a leading role in areas such as climate change, public health, artificial intelligence governance, and online teaching.
It is reported that the university will subsequently study and develop action plans related to the two opinions.
The blueprint has been drawn, and it is time to advance. With the attitude of self-improvement, teachers and students of the university are working hard and forging ahead, making positive contributions to the forefront of world-class universities and welcoming the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party and the 110th anniversary of the university with excellent achievements!(Tsinghua University)
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Secretariat of ACGS
2021-02-25