Study On A Mechanism Of The Joint Cultivating Postgraduates Of Research Institutions And Universities

Current and a future period is a decisive stage of China’s completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects. China’s development is to face all kinds of opportunities and challenges in all respects from home and abroad. Confronted with such complicated and changeable strategic environment, how should we grasp opportunities, and embrace challenges, so as to fulfill our Chinese Dream of achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation? Science and technology is the key, talents are the core, and education is the base. As the crucial binding point of science and technology as the first productive force and talents as the first resource, higher education plays a considerably crucial strategic part in the national development.In2011, Chairman Hu Jintao explicitly pointed out in his speech at Tsinghua University Centennial Ceremony that our colleges and universities should place the quality enhancement as the most central and urging task of the educational reform. He noted that colleges and universities, research universities in particular, in the process of building an innovative nation, should push collaborative innovation actively, by means of innovations of institutional mechanisms and guidance of policy program, promote deep cooperation among universities, research institutions and enterprises, establish strategic alliance of collaborative innovation, share resources, overcome difficulties in major research projects jointly, and make substantial achievements in key areas.As the highest level of higher education, postgraduate education is capable of connecting effectively the fundamental functions of higher education, that is, talent cultivation, scientific research, social services, cultural heritage and so on, to be an organic whole. Its developing level and quality have significant position in the progress of building innovative nation. Therefore, in order to promote collaborative innovation and accelerate completing the establishment of national innovative system, to integrate advantageous resources among universities, research institutions and enterprises, and implement the joint cultivation of postgraduates is an important breakthrough, as well as a major way of innovating graduate training mode and comprehensively improving the quality of graduate education.This dissertation at first conducts a literature review of home and abroad research on the innovative mode of joint cultivating postgraduates, figures out the major research content and development, and forms a comprehensive understanding of joint cultivating postgraduates. Then, the dissertation sorts out the graduate education history of China’s research institutions and the evolution course of scientific research functions of colleges and universities, and points out that research institutions and universities still have potential problems of isolation in science and education combination, and connecting with the gradually formed background of current environment for collaborative innovation, further analyzes the necessity of implementing the mode of joint cultivating postgraduates under new circumstances. The dissertation holds that joint cultivating postgraduates is a major approach to breaking out of and solving the deeper problem of separation of science and education, a major innovative measure of achieving science and education combination of higher significance in current environment for collaborative innovation and making the most of the advantages both in scientific research and education, and a major means of the exploration of improving the training quality of postgraduates.In the second, the dissertation reviews the status quo of our current joint cultivating postgraduates of research institutions and universities, and conducts an empirical study on the relevant mechanism factors that affect the quality of joint cultivation, and summarizes the experience from the cases in four kinds of joint cultivation areas, and elaborates the relevant experiences and implications from the foreign joint cultivating postgraduates of research institutions and universities. With these contents, the dissertation analyzes the concerning institutional mechanism problems in joint cultivating postgraduates of research institutions and universities of our country.At last, the dissertation builds up a mechanism framework of the joint cultivating postgraduates of research institutions and universities, and puts forward some advice on the policy level. This mechanism framework includes seven aspects: establishing the mechanism of management and coordination; innovating mentor selection mechanism and instructional method; optimizing enrollment mechanism; improving training plan and curriculum system construction; actively establishing the mechanism of research practice and training; improving the construction of degree-granting mechanism; establishing the quality assessment mechanism. In order to advance the improvement of the joint cultivating mechanism, the dissertation makes several suggestions on the directions of policy that educational authorities should follow:to encourage research institutions and universities to further richen the forms of joint cultivation and expand the areas of joint cultivation; to actively lead the change of the joint cultivation motivation; to constantly improve the mechanism security arrangements on the national level, so that joint training work has smooth policy-operating environment.