Professor Shu Jinlong talks about how to improve the quality of talent training in higher education
All school leaders, middle-level cadres, teachers from various departments and representatives from party member attended the study meeting. The study meeting was presided over by Huan Xiufang, deputy secretary of the Party Committee. Starting with the general situation of colleges and universities in Shanghai, Professor Shu Jinlong briefly introduced the types, levels and present situation of colleges and universities in Shanghai, analyzed the deficiencies in discipline construction and personnel training of colleges and universities in Shanghai, and put forward eleven concrete measures to improve the level of higher education in Shanghai. In terms of connotation construction in colleges and universities, Shu Jinlong said that during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the connotation construction in colleges and universities is the main starting point for the quality of personnel training, and the "085" project of the Municipal Education Commission is actually a project to enhance the connotation construction in colleges and universities; To reflect the effectiveness of the "085" project, we must start from three aspects: ensuring the investment of funds, school construction and performance evaluation. In terms of improving the level of discipline and specialty construction, Shu Jinlong said that a school should have first-class disciplines and specialties. At present, the Education Commission is evaluating the outstanding undergraduate majors and selecting the outstanding undergraduate majors in Shanghai universities. It is hoped that the school will focus on the construction of disciplines and majors, optimize the professional design, run excellent undergraduate majors that meet the needs of society, and rectify unqualified disciplines and majors. In order to improve the quality of undergraduate education, he said that the Education Commission will launch an incentive plan for backbone teachers, and through a certain amount and intensity of funding, encourage teachers to invest more experience in higher education personnel training and encourage professors and associate professors to participate in undergraduate teaching. Shu Jinlong also encouraged school teachers to devote themselves to teaching and improve the quality of higher education personnel training by participating in the national and Shanghai teaching achievement awards and outstanding engineer training programs. In the live interactive session, Song Guoqiang, secretary of the Party branch of the School of Electrical Engineering of our school, and Fu Xiaogang, president of the Higher Vocational College, respectively asked questions about how to classify and evaluate the quality of undergraduate teaching and the necessity of cultivating higher vocational majors in undergraduate colleges, and Shu Jinlong answered them one by one. (Gao Juan)