1. Residence
In Australia, universities only provide a very small number of on-campus student dormitories, and students' accommodation methods are mainly solved through student families and market-oriented apartments. The dormitory on campus has the most convenient transportation conditions and a small number, so the rent is high and only a few students choose. Students come from families in the city or region where the university is located, and usually live in their own homes. Most students from foreign cities and regions rent commercial apartments or their own houses through the real estate market. Rent varies greatly according to housing quality, traffic conditions, distance from school, environmental conditions of residential areas and other factors. Students can choose the rent according to their own economic conditions. Therefore, Australian universities are basically non-residential, while most universities in China require all students to live on campus. Therefore, China University has student dormitories on campus, so it is a residential system.
2. Limited liability and unlimited liability
Another big difference is that universities should aim at knowledge education? Limited liability company? Or are you fully responsible for students' thoughts, life and study? Unlimited liability company? . As far as the responsibility mechanism for students is concerned, there is not much difference between China students in primary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools and other countries. It's all in the dual responsibility system of parents and schools at home. When students arrive to enter the university. Hey? 8 years old or above 18 years old, legally speaking, is an adult who bears civil and legal responsibilities, and college students should be more independent. Therefore, from the perspective of student responsibility mechanism, it should be a ternary responsibility system of students, families and schools. Students bear the responsibility themselves, followed by families and schools.
However, universities in China treat college students not as adults, but as preschool children. They put everything in their heads for their own sake? Kindergarten? Therefore, in the university stage, China implements the unified responsibility system for students and schools and seeks the responsibility system for universities. So besides studying, students' eating, drinking, pulling, dispersing, sleeping, safety, ideological growth, physical health, mental health, marriage, spare time, job hunting, etc. are all covered by the school, and the university becomes a veritable university? Unlimited liability company? , is it? Adult nursery? .
This way of unlimited liability increases the risk of running a school. We often hear some lawsuits filed with universities because of students' problems, and the nature of unlimited liability of schools often makes schools very passive. At the same time, the school must increase the operating expenses of the school in order to undertake the above responsibilities. It is said that the administrative and logistics management expenses of Huada account for half or more of the total school expenses. Such high administrative logistics management costs are also a major reason for the high tuition fees in colleges and universities in China.
3. Ideological education
Australia believes that after primary and secondary education, students basically have a world outlook and life values, which is a milestone for adults. Therefore, there is no compulsory course of ideological education for students in Australian universities. China's national conditions are different, so a compulsory course of ideological education has been set up. According to the data of a domestic university, the class hours of ideological education account for 15% of the total class hours of college students, which shows that students spend a lot of time studying ideological education and coping with exams during their college years. I don't believe that the minds of teenagers in our country mature later than those in foreign countries. Can't middle school education in China complete the cultivation and formation of students' world outlook and values? I think that through the change of ideas and the reform of middle school education, universities in China can also become places where college students are educated as adults.
4. There is no class, and there is a class organization and management model.
Australian secondary schools are organized in the same way as China, with dozens of students forming a class and several classes forming a grade. However, after entering Australian universities, universities no longer have the form of class organization and management for students. College students enter the majors of different colleges. Each major offers certain courses. Every college student should apply to the school for elective courses before each semester. After the school confirms, he will apply for personal class time from the school according to his life and university schedule. For example, the same accounting class may have two or three different classes a week (such as Monday morning and Wednesday afternoon), so each student will have a personalized class schedule. When the school confirms the students' schedule, students only need to go to the corresponding classrooms for large classes and small classes according to the schedule.
Students in large and small classes may be students of their own major, students of different majors in our college, or students of other colleges. There is no concept of class or organizational form at all. What is implemented here is the adult learning management mode in autonomous management. There is no difference in learning organization between universities and middle schools in China. There are classes, class teachers (or counselors), class monitors and class committees, which are still the management mode of treating college students as non-adults led by schools and classes. The biggest difference between no-class learning management and no-class learning management is that no-class learning gives students more space for independent management.