What main functions should modern colleges and universities undertake? Traditionally, there are different views. It has two functions (teaching and research) and three functions (teaching and research and social service). However, these two viewpoints are based on the traditional operation mode of colleges and universities, which can not meet the requirements of the new operation environment of colleges and universities. We believe that if colleges and universities want to make greater achievements in the construction of China's socialist market economic system, they must undertake the five major tasks entrusted by society in time. In other words, colleges and universities should develop, develop and give play to the five functions of teaching, scientific research, social service, science and technology incubator and employment guidance. The establishment of these five functions will mark the establishment of a new university operation mode.

1 Higher education is a professional education based on complete secondary education and a social activity to train all kinds of senior professionals.

2. Medieval universities in Europe are generally regarded as the beginning of modern higher education.

3. Medieval universities mainly organized education and teaching around literature, law, medicine and God. Among the four subjects, liberal arts is the foundation, learning Latin and grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music; Law, spirit and medicine are advanced disciplines.

In the United States, all education after middle school is called higher education.

6. The concept of higher education in the Higher Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) is: The higher education mentioned in this Law refers to the education implemented on the basis of the completion of higher education and secondary education.

7. From the nature of higher education, higher education is a kind of vocational education, which is an activity to cultivate senior talents according to the division of labor.

8. In 1980s, the core courses of Harvard general education included six categories: literature and art, science, historical research, social analysis, moral thinking and foreign culture, aiming at cultivating educated Americans.

9. In ancient China, the tradition of "learning to be an excellent official" and the establishment of official schools were concrete manifestations of taking education as a political tool.

10. The function of personnel training began in ancient times and developed in medieval European universities, which is also the most basic function of modern universities.

1 1. The emergence of higher education can be traced back to the "colleges" in ancient Greece; In China, higher education can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty. "The Last Month Of Summer School" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period; The academy that began in the Tang Dynasty (Li Zheng Academy, founded in 7 17, and later renamed Jixian Temple Academy) is another type of higher education institution in China.