What is higher education? What is the purpose of higher education?
Higher education is a variety of specialized education implemented after secondary education. In China, higher education includes full-time higher education and adult higher education, the latter belongs to the category of adult education. China's higher education is divided into four levels: junior college students, undergraduate students, master students and doctoral students, and the corresponding bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees are awarded. China's colleges and universities are divided into arts, science, engineering, agriculture, forestry, medicine, normal education, finance and economics, politics and law, sports and art. Selecting new students through the national unified examination is the basic form of college enrollment. In the past, the national enrollment plan and graduate distribution plan were completely mandatory, but in recent years they have been changed into two forms: national task plan and regulation plan. The national task plan is a mandatory plan issued by the central and local education departments, and the regulatory plan is a plan for schools to train and recruit self-funded students according to their own needs. In the past, graduates were allocated uniformly throughout the country. After the reform, except for graduates from normal universities and some hard industries and remote areas who are employed in a certain range, a "two-way choice" is implemented for most graduates, that is, under the guidance of national policies, graduates are recommended by schools and employers choose their volunteers within a certain range. China's higher education trains talents according to their majors, which are generally set in disciplines such as literature, science, engineering and medicine. In recent years, colleges and universities have revised the professional catalogue according to disciplines, broadened the scope of professional business and cultivated the adaptability of talents. According to the needs of cultivating general talents, the majors are merged, and the majors in colleges and universities are still undergoing a wider reform. China's colleges and universities have always adopted the academic year system, which has strict regulations on the number of years of study, teaching hours and course content. In recent years, more than half of the schools have implemented the planned guidance credit system and increased the proportion of elective courses. Some colleges and universities also try out the second degree system, major and minor system and tutorial system. The management system of colleges and universities in China is that some comprehensive universities and normal universities are under the responsibility of the State Education Commission, junior colleges are managed by the corresponding central competent ministries and commissions, and local universities are managed by the provincial level. According to the spirit of "the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's Decision on the Reform of Education System", the autonomy of higher education institutions has been expanded. Teachers' appointment system is implemented in colleges and universities, and teachers are divided into four levels: teaching assistants, lecturers, associate professors and professors. Higher education is the frontier of high-tech development. Higher education promotes scientific and technological progress by cultivating high-tech talents, researching scientific research topics and developing scientific and technological products. Only by strengthening higher education can the country make science and technology develop faster. In the era of knowledge economy, all countries in the world regard higher education as the focus of education.