Research On The Function Of Research Institutions Of Higher Education In Universities

Along with the development of higher education,its research institutions in colleges and universities are also developing rapidly.Higher education research institutions in Chinese universities can be divided into four groups:institutes set up independently,institutes set up as subsidiary or attached units,institutes set up as transitional places for the people who are not suitably arranged for various reasons, institutes set up as agencies dealing with daily affairs.research institutions of higher education in Chinese universities possess the functions of teaching and training people and administrating,carrying out project research,evaluating teaching, publishing research journals about higher education and exchanging information, organizing teaching and research activities,and publicizing education.While research institutions of higher education in universities have achieved progress in many fields,such as research institutions organization,researchers, scientific research result and research journals,but at the same time,there exist many problems.Those problems are:the functions of those institutes set up by university to its development still need developing,the generalization of the study of higher education reform results in leadership in colleges and universities can not catch the emergency in time in university reform,the culture influence of higher education research institutions,such as their research achievement and academic theory research to universities is not enough,the development of higher education as an academic disciplines is not balanced.Learn from the characteristics of the research institutions in American colleges and universities and combined with the facts of the development of Chinese higher education,the author puts forward some countermeasures:to provide advice for universities self-development,to provide reform ideas for the development of higher education,to serve as training people and constructing the discipline of higher education,to serve as constructing public culture.Effective response function's countermeasure of higher education in university institutions.First of all,we should combine research institutes and policy-making institutions of schools,cultivate the concept of strategic management in the leadership of universities,absorb the higher education researchers to participate the work of university development,and commission research institutions of higher education to carry out special researches.Secondly,we should establish an evaluation mechanism about research projects of higher education,standardize the system of reporting higher education research projects,establish a security system about the fund of higher education research projects,and implement reward and punishment systems about research projects in higher education.Finally,we should promote a system that is benefit to the formation and development of inter-disciplinary and personnel training,foster discipline advantages adapting to school characteristics,and constructing disciplines of natural and social sciences so as to promote integration-oriented teaching reform.