The second degree was cancelled. 2065438+On July 26th, 2009, the Ministry of Education officially issued a notice to stop enrolling the second degree. It is clearly stipulated in the document that degree-granting units will no longer recruit students with second bachelor's degrees, which means that China's second degree will withdraw from the historical stage. The second extension information was cancelled. The second degree refers to the graduation certificate issued by the examination institute after obtaining the first degree, taking the examination recognized by the national education administrative department, and obtaining the second degree (such as the higher education self-study examination and adult college entrance examination, etc.). ), complete the course credits of the second degree, and pass the thesis defense in the examiner's college to obtain the bachelor's degree certificate issued by the examiner's college. Its purpose is to train a group of high-level professionals with wide knowledge and interdisciplinary urgently needed by the country as soon as possible, which will complement the postgraduate training methods and better meet the needs of economic development. The person in charge of the the State Council Academic Degrees Committee Office said that the new China bachelor's degree system has been established for nearly 40 years, which has well met the needs of the rapid development of higher education and played an important role in improving the quality of undergraduate education. However, with the continuous expansion of the scale of undergraduate education, there are also some new problems that need to be solved urgently, such as the nonstandard examination of some bachelor's degree authorization, the imperfect procedures of some degree awarding, the insufficient support of system design for the cultivation of compound talents, and the blank of quality supervision and disposal of degree awarding. It is necessary to strengthen the top-level design, standardize the authorization and award of bachelor's degrees, improve the management system of bachelor's degrees, and improve the quality of bachelor's degree award.