Credit System's Challenge And Antidote To The Ideological And Political Work In High Institutions

Credit System's Challenge and Antidote to the Ideological and Political Work in High InstitutionsWith the development of Socialist Market Economy and the progress of Science and Technology in our country, the society requests that the talent in High Institutions should have solid professional basis, extensive knowledge scale, broad adjusting and competing capability to meet the requirements of the market to different standards of students. Based on Courses-Selecting Institution, Credit System has been introduced once again to the realm of High Education in China. As a result of its apparent advantages, it has been gradually adopted in wide range and has become a new focus in High Education reform in our country. With the improvement of Socialist Market Economy, the popularization of High Education and the advent of Internationalization in China, Credit System will undoubtedly become the direction of High Education reform in our country.In condition of Credit System, Courses-Selecting and Elastic Academic System will be implemented. It fully appreciates the personality variations of the students. The basis of traditional Ideological and Political Education in our country's High Institutions -class-has been broken up. The Credit System has reinforced the Students' autonomy awareness, democracy consciousness, mileage awareness and competitive sense. The pattern, means and role of the traditional Ideological and Political Education have been weakened. The importance of recessive education has been enhanced .The execution of Credit System has constituted greet challenge to our traditional Ideological and Political Work.In condition of Credit System, the Ideological and Political workers should: properly perceive the importance of Ideological and Political work, bravely assimilate the experiences in Ideological and Political work about Credit System in western countries; renew the thoughts for Ideological and Political work, establish the notion of "Equal, Opening, Serving and Based-on-people"; explore the new carrier for Ideological and Political work that corresponds to the High Education Practice under Credit System in our country, set up "solid-state" Students' Community, consolidate "fluid-state" Student's Associations and institute "gas-state" Students' course classes, making them to be the position for Ideological and Political work; through improving "Two-Course" Education, enhance the fiber of Ideological and Political workers, establish professional mentor's group and reinforce the obligation of teachers; establish the assuring system under Credit System, for instance, study guidance, psychological consultation, network circumstances, financing the study through moonlighting, job-seeking direction, etc, institute a new system for Ideological and Political work in High Institutions that can meet the requirements of Credit System.