The task of higher education is to cultivate senior professionals with innovative spirit and practical ability, develop science, technology and culture, and promote socialist modernization. The Higher Education Law stipulates that "institutions of higher learning should face the society, run their own schools according to law and practice democratic management".
Higher education usually includes various educational institutions with high-level learning and training, teaching, research and social services as their main tasks and activities. The main types of education are general higher education, adult higher education, higher education self-study examination, open education of RTVU and distance network education.
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The National Education Development Research Center divides universities in China into four types.
1, a research university. It refers to a university that provides a comprehensive bachelor's degree course, puts research first, and is committed to high-level personnel training and scientific research and development (that is, a university with the same number of graduate students as undergraduates or a large proportion of graduate students).
2. Teaching and research universities. The teaching level of such universities is mainly undergraduate and master students. Some professions with strong industry can recruit some doctoral students, but they cannot train junior college students.
3. Teaching-oriented undergraduate colleges. The main body of such schools is undergraduate teaching, and there are a small number of graduate students or junior college students under special circumstances.
4. Colleges and higher vocational schools. This kind of school embodies the most flexible part of higher education in school and specialty setting, mainly to meet the needs of local economic construction and social development.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-higher education