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The focus of the debate is whether university education is market-oriented or academic-oriented.
First, to consider whether university education should be market-oriented, we must first understand what "marketization" is. The so-called "marketization" refers to a behavioral process and trend that university education reconstructs its management system, operation mechanism and control system, adjusts and corrects the relationship between universities and other social organizations, and gradually transforms universities into market operation subjects under the conditions of market economy. Taking the market as a navigation mark and guiding its own development is the normal state and standard of university education, and internal and external needs determine that it should be market-oriented; Second, it is precisely because of the continuous demand for "practical" talents in the market that employers pay special attention to the ability to solve practical problems. They don't want to pay high adaptation costs to the employed college students. Students' practical ability, innovative and entrepreneurial ability, interpersonal coordination ability, social integration and service ability are becoming more and more important. If university education still pays more attention to knowledge inculcation than ability training, it is obviously unable to meet the market demand, and the college students it trains are bound to have employment pressure. Thirdly, we have to consider the basic situation of China's higher education: at present, there are more than 3,400 institutions of higher learning in China, with more than 20 million students, and the gross enrollment rate of higher education has reached about 20%, and higher education has entered the stage of popularization. The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China requires different types and levels of institutions of higher learning to have different orientations. Research universities should serve to cultivate a large number of top-notch innovative talents, but the main task of more small and medium-sized universities is to cultivate practical and applied talents at all levels, and the students here must be "marketable" after graduation. Various reasons determine that "university education should be market-oriented"