A Research Into The Status And Mode Of Municipal Universities And Colleges

Municipal universities and colleges are a new sector in China's Higher education,coming into being together with the country's reform and opening programs,The development and construction of such institutions are not only necessary for the construction of China's socialist modernization but also veryimportant for flourishing the entire national education,for enhancing the general quality of the people,and for meeting the pressing need required of education by all sectors of the society.Without their own local institutions of higher education,which keep abreast with the urban development,it would be unimaginable for the cities to realize their urban modernization and to rise up to the standard of a modernized and civilized society.As far as the national education is concerned,the municipal universities and colleges,as a forerunner and an experiment in the reform of the higher education,form a vital constituent part of the entire higher education structure,as an important force in the realization of educational popularization.Characterized by their nature of locality,diversity,professional orientation,and popularization,municipal universities and colleges play a role irreplaceable by ministerial and provincial institutions of higher education.For the purpose of healthy and steady development and construction,they must further probe channels of development,reform and regularize their management system,formularize proper strategies,and introduce the market mechanism,so as to increase their vitality of development.