Internationalization of higher education is an inevitable trend under the background of globalization, and it is also the only way for China's higher education to build a high-level university. China University of Mining and Technology? Internationalization? The concept of running a school is centered on advantageous majors, and many efforts have been made in international mobility of students, international mobility of teachers, internationalization of teaching and courses, international cooperative research, and cooperative running of schools. Although many achievements have been made, there are still some problems.
Keywords: China University of Mining and Technology International Advantage Major
China Library Classification Number G64 Document Identification Code A Document Number 2095-3089 (2014)10-0009-02
The internationalization of higher education refers to the process that a country and its higher education institutions strategically set international frontier goals and put them into practice under the background of globalization. At the implementation level, it is manifested in specific international cooperation and exchange activities and their effects. [1] The essence of the internationalization of higher education is the process of guiding running schools according to the concepts, norms and guidelines prevailing in the international higher education community, strengthening international exchanges and cooperation, thus improving the running level of a country or higher education institution and cultivating talents with international vision and understanding. [2]
China University of Mining and Technology is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. 2 1 1 project? And then what? 985 Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform Project? The construction of colleges and universities is also jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the People's Government of Jiangsu Province and the State Administration of Work Safety. As a multi-disciplinary research university with a history of over 100 years and distinctive features, it plays an irreplaceable leading and supporting role in China's coal energy industry and local economic and social development. [3] In recent years, China University of Mining and Technology has made remarkable achievements in foreign exchange, and was awarded 20 13 respectively by Jiangsu Province. Advanced collective of Jiangsu Foreign Cultural and Educational Experts Research Association? And then what? Jiangsu Advanced School of International Education Cooperation and Exchange? The title of. This paper focuses on the internationalization road with the characteristics of mining universities and points out its existing problems.
1. International school-running practice
1. International mobility of students
China University of Mining and Technology has always met? Go out, please come in? The principle of actively expanding the scale of overseas students and overseas students in China has formed a reasonable pattern of two-way flow. The international mobility of students is an important symbol of the internationalization of universities. The number of international students in China University of Mining and Technology has been increasing. At present, there are more than 80 international students/kloc-0. Judging from the hierarchical distribution of international students, most of them are degree applicants, not non-degree applicants. Among the students with academic qualifications, undergraduates have the largest number and always occupy a dominant position. From the direction, student flow can be divided into two forms: inflow (international students) and outflow (domestic students receiving overseas studies at different times). In 20 13, the international department and the academic affairs department set up scholarships for studying abroad, and selected 126 preparatory students for studying abroad.
At the same time, the international department actively promotes various Sino-foreign cooperative education projects at the graduate and undergraduate levels. More than 65,438+000 students have been sent through the China-Canada MBA program, Griffith University civil engineering undergraduate program, Melbourne Royal Institute of Technology environmental protection undergraduate program, Russian scholarship program, American global excellent undergraduate program, and Oldenburg University exchange program. While encouraging students to visit our school for a short time, on 20 13, our school set up a scholarship for international students in China to encourage more international students to choose mining university as their own school. This measure has achieved remarkable results. In that year, 54 international students and 29 others were enrolled, and the number of international students in school reached 170, which was higher than before. [4]
2. Internationalization of teaching staff
The internationalization of China University of Mining and Technology is also reflected in the emphasis on the internationalization of teaching staff. The teaching staff is one of the important indicators to measure the comprehensive strength of a university, which directly affects the discipline construction and development direction of the school, and also affects the quality and goal of talent training in the school. Many high-level famous universities in the world often have highly internationalized teachers. China University of Mining and Technology promotes the internationalization of teaching staff by both training and introduction.
First of all, international exchange office of China University of Mining and Technology often organizes short-term visits for teachers and administrators to facilitate overseas academic exchanges. International exchange office of China University of Mining and Technology actively coordinated the relevant departments of the school, simplified the examination and approval procedures for going abroad on business, and at the same time issued policies such as Measures for the Administration of Overseas Personnel of China University of Mining and Technology and Interim Provisions on Further Strengthening the Administration of Cadres Going Abroad on Business. While strictly regulating foreign affairs management, we should actively do work for faculty and staff. In 20 13, the school sent11business delegations, with a total of 296 people going abroad to participate in international conferences, academic exchanges, cooperative research or study visits, with a year-on-year increase of 49%. In addition, the overseas study program for management cadres and teachers' groups, which was suspended for many years, has been restarted and achieved good results. The active consciousness of the school staff's conscious foreign exchange has gradually increased, forming a good academic atmosphere. [5]
Secondly, the International Exchange Office of China University of Mining and Technology has stepped up efforts to hire foreign teachers. Their participation has greatly enriched the diversity of teachers' academic background and improved the internationalization level of teachers. By actively expanding employment channels and strengthening service measures, the task of hiring 15 foreign language teachers, one of the key tasks of the school in 20 13, was successfully completed. These English and German foreign teachers have undertaken the teaching work of English-German language major, Sino-foreign cooperative education project, college English, postgraduate English and Sun College respectively, and the teaching effect is good. In addition, in 20 13, the school also received more than 200 well-known experts and scholars from the United States, Germany, Australia, Canada, Russia, Austria, Britain, Denmark, Japan, South Korea, South Africa and Hong Kong for cooperation and exchange. [6]
While optimizing the learning background of local teachers, the school also actively introduces foreign excellent educational resources and intellectual resources in various forms. In 2007, the school approved the subject innovation and intelligence introduction plan (11plan)? Coal resources development and environmental science and technology innovation? Continue to be funded by the state. In 20 13, the school's talent recruitment funds reached 3.6 million, including subject innovation and talent introduction plan. Plan 1 1 1? Three projects, two key projects supported by the introduction of overseas high-level cultural and educational experts, and the fourth project declared this year? Plan 1 1 1? ――? Deep underground engineering discipline innovation and intelligence introduction base? Has been approved for implementation. [7]
3. Internationalization of teaching and curriculum
The internationalization of a school is not only reflected in the diversification of students and teachers, but more importantly, the core is to realize the internationalization of teaching. 1996, OECD meeting? Course internationalization? (Currency internationalization) is defined as? Courses designed for students at home and abroad aim to cultivate students' viability in an international and diversified social work environment. ? Maurice Harari, a western scholar, believes that curriculum internationalization includes not only the development of foreign language training and international and regional studies, but also the introduction of a global perspective into general disciplines? Generalization of disciplines? Process. [8]
According to the characteristics of different disciplines and the requirements of personnel training, our school has steadily promoted bilingual teaching. 20 10 "the construction and reform of international curriculum system in China-Australia college" is listed as a teaching reform project. Formulate and implement training programs, teaching plans and curriculum outlines that are in line with international standards. Three professors from foreign cooperative universities have taught at Sino-German College and China-Australia College, making new progress in internationalization. Every major will offer specialized English courses after students enter the third year of college. However, compared with other projects, the teaching reform is relatively weak. The textbooks for students' English learning are single, and there is no access to the original textbooks. Although foreign teachers have been introduced, the internationalization of teaching and courses has not been fundamentally changed.
4. International cooperation research
In terms of scientific research, China University of Mining and Technology has actively promoted high-level scientific research cooperation in advantageous majors in recent years: on the one hand, it has improved the ability of teachers and students to host, plan and participate in major international projects; At the same time, relying on international conferences, promote the international exchange of scientific and technological and academic achievements. On September 7th, 20 10, President Ge of our school led a delegation to attend the 20 10 World Energy Forum held at the United Nations Headquarters in new york, and delivered a speech entitled? China's Future Energy and Clean Coal Technology? Speech. 2010 from March 2000 15 to March 22, seven people, including Vice President Xuefeng Song, went to Germany to carry out an investigation and visit mission, mainly to implement? China-Germany Cooperation Promotion Conference in Xuzhou Ecological Demonstration Zone? China coal mine safety equipment Internet of Things, urban system logistics planning, energy saving and emission reduction, new energy and renewable energy and other four major industrialization projects. [9]
5. International cooperation in running schools
International cooperation in running schools is also a part of the internationalization strategy of China University of Mining and Technology. In 20 10, our school successively signed educational science and technology cooperation agreements or memorandums with cooperation units such as Duisburg-Essen University, Oldenburg University, Bochum University of Technology, RWE Company of Germany, Ballarat University of Australia, University of Wollongong in Canada, and University of Waterloo. The school actively carries out academic exchanges and cooperation at home and abroad, and constantly promotes international education. At present, the school has signed cooperation agreements with 25 top 200 universities in the world. Innovate the international cooperation mode of higher education, set up an international college, build an international cooperation platform such as the China-Australia Mining Research Center, and jointly build it with more than 10 foreign well-known high-level universities? International Federation of Higher Education in Mining, Energy and Environment? . The National Mining Higher Education Alliance initiated by the South Dakota Institute of Mining in the United States plans to join as a group member, and its international influence is increasing day by day. 20 13 Newly signed schools 10 overseas cooperative universities, with 7 renewed schools. Among them, 1 Australian University newly signed, 4 renewed; Universities in Asia and Africa signed four new contracts; There are 5 cooperative universities in Europe and America and 3 renewed universities, and the layout is becoming more and more reasonable. At the same time, according to the requirements of the school, combined with the actual situation of foreign exchanges of various units, the college and the key laboratory respectively selected five partners as key exchange targets. At present, colleges and key laboratories have basically established substantive cooperative relations with at least two overseas universities or research institutions, making our international exchange work more pragmatic. [ 10]
Secondly, the characteristics and problems of internationalization of China University of Mining and Technology.
The internationalization of China University of Mining and Technology has the following three characteristics: First, the ways of foreign exchange and cooperation are constantly enriched. From the initial simple short-term visit and cooperation of a small number of foreign students, public students and teachers, it has developed into an all-round, multi-channel and multi-level international exchange and cooperation model. At present, China University of Mining and Technology has established cooperative relations with many foreign universities. Through joint training, exchange of international students, international conferences and other forms, we will continue to expand the training of talents facing the world and high-level academic exchanges. Second, the level of participants gradually moved down from graduate students to undergraduates. The early student exchange program of China University of Mining and Technology was mainly aimed at the cultivation of graduate students. In the past two years, the University of Mining and Technology has continuously promoted short-term visits and exchange programs for undergraduates. The school organizes manpower and material resources to promote short-term visit projects. Thirdly, the internationalization of China University of Mining and Technology focuses on its own advantageous majors, especially in the holding of international conferences and international cooperation projects.
Although China University of Mining and Technology has made some achievements in internationalization, there are still a series of problems. First of all, China University of Mining and Technology is not attractive enough for international students, and the proportion of international students is still low. Judging from the countries of origin of international students, most of the international students in China University of Mining and Technology are concentrated in underdeveloped countries in Asia and Africa, which is not attractive enough for students from developed countries such as Europe and America. Secondly, it is not enough to learn advanced foreign educational concepts and systems. The internationalization of colleges and universities emphasizes absorbing and drawing lessons from the world's advanced ideas and modes of running higher education in order to improve the quality of personnel training. At present, the international running mode of China University of Mining and Technology is mostly project-centered and conference-oriented, lacking the systematic implantation of educational ideas and the real reform of the educational system. Thirdly, the international development of China University of Mining and Technology is also reflected in many aspects? Dependence? For other universities, we can learn more from them and output less. The internationalization of higher education requires that the communication between schools should be two-way, that is, learn from each other and export to each other.
In a word, China University of Mining and Technology aims at serving the central work of the school, such as teaching, scientific research, discipline and teaching staff construction, and focuses on promoting the reform and development of school education. Explore the development road of combining practical industry characteristics with international school running, and explore a multi-level, wide-ranging, high-level and pragmatic internationalization road of higher education from the reality of school development.
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About the author: Zhu Xiaoxiao, a teacher and lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages, China University of Mining and Technology (Xuzhou, Jiangsu 22 1000).
Project: Special Fund for Basic Scientific Research Business Expenses of Central University, Social Science Youth Project B of China University of Mining and Technology (2012w57-Research on the Application of Thinking Teaching in College English Teaching).
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