1. General higher education

General higher education refers to professional education that mainly recruits high school graduates for full-time study. General education is a concept corresponding to adult education. The object of general education is mainly teenagers in the growing stage, and it takes the form of full-time teaching.

General higher education belongs to the unified recruitment, including general full-time junior college, general full-time undergraduate (four-year, five-year and two-year undergraduate students admitted through the unified recruitment examination), general full-time second bachelor's degree, general full-time master's degree, part-time master's degree (academic master and professional master's degree) and general full-time doctoral graduate students.

2. Concept definition

General education is a concept corresponding to adult education, and the difference between them mainly lies in the difference of educational objects and learning forms. The object of general education is mainly teenagers in the growing stage, and it adopts full-time teaching form; As the name implies, the object of adult education is adults, and part-time teaching is generally implemented.

The task of general education is usually undertaken by schools that implement general education (called general education schools). General education schools are divided into general basic education schools, vocational education schools and general higher (secondary specialized) schools, all of which implement full-time teaching. General basic education is divided into preschool education, primary education, junior high school education and senior high school education.

These include special education for disabled children, teenagers and young people and unusual work-study education. General vocational education includes general vocational middle schools, technical education, secondary vocational education and higher vocational education. General higher (secondary specialized) education refers to the professional education that mainly recruits high school (junior high school) graduates for full-time study, and it is adult higher education such as correspondence, evening university and open university that mainly recruits on-the-job workers. The form is relative.

3. Training content

The system reform and structural adjustment of higher education are closely combined, and the hierarchical structure and discipline structure gradually become reasonable. In the adjustment of 1993, the total number of undergraduate majors was reduced from 8 13 to 504 and adjusted to 249 in 1998, which broadened the scope of majors and enhanced their adaptability. Teaching reform is carried out in an all-round way, and efforts are made to improve the quality of personnel training.

The reform of teaching content and curriculum system oriented to 2 1 century has entered a substantive stage, and many talent training models that meet the needs of 2 1 century are moving from pilot to popularization and application. It is estimated that by 2002, 100 new training models (teaching plans) will be launched, and 1000 "2 1 000 century curriculum textbooks" will be compiled and published.