In order to implement the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, deepen the construction of political style, carry out special education and governance on outstanding issues in the moral field, implement the requirements of the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-Term Education Reform and Development Plan (20 10-2020), resolutely oppose bad study style, effectively curb academic misconduct, and create a clean and honest educational environment and pragmatic academic atmosphere, the Ministry of Education has decided to
First, fully understand the importance and urgency of the construction of study style in colleges and universities. Style of study is the concentrated expression of university spirit, the essential requirement of teaching and educating people, and the foundation and development soul of colleges and universities. Excellent style of study is the fundamental guarantee to improve the quality of education and teaching. Whether a good academic atmosphere can be created is related to the scientific development of higher education and the success or failure of education. At present, the style of study in colleges and universities is generally good. However, in recent years, in the teaching and scientific research activities of teachers and students in colleges and universities, bad phenomena and misconduct have occurred from time to time, such as quick success and instant benefit, impetuous exaggeration, plagiarism, forgery and tampering, buying and selling papers, cheating in exams and so on. It has seriously damaged the academic atmosphere of teaching and educating people and caused extremely negative social impact. It is urgent to strengthen and improve the construction of study style in colleges and universities.
Second, adhere to the principle of comprehensive management. To strengthen the construction of study style in colleges and universities, we should adhere to the combination of education and governance, adhere to educational guidance, system norms, supervision and restraint, investigate and punish warnings, and establish and improve a long-term mechanism to carry forward excellent study style. Through special education governance actions, we will quickly establish a working system for the construction of study style, clarify the responsibilities and obligations of all localities, departments and universities, and strive to significantly improve the overall situation of study style and scientific research integrity in colleges and universities during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period, so as to lay a good foundation for study style in order to ensure the quality of personnel training, enhance the level of scientific research and enhance the ability of social services.
Third, build a working system for the construction of study style. The Ministry of Education shall set up an office for the construction of study style, which shall be responsible for formulating relevant policies for the construction of study style in colleges and universities, guiding and inspecting the construction of study style in colleges and universities, accepting reports of academic misconduct, guiding, coordinating and supervising the investigation and handling. All regions and departments should improve the construction institutions of study style and be responsible for the construction of study style in their own regions and units. Colleges and universities should establish corresponding working institutions and mechanisms to be responsible for the construction of study style and the investigation and punishment of academic misconduct.
Fourth, strengthen the main responsibility of colleges and universities. The main leaders of colleges and universities are the first responsible persons for the construction of study style and the investigation of academic misconduct, and there should be special leaders responsible for the construction of study style. Local education departments should incorporate the construction of study style into the assessment of leading bodies in colleges and universities, improve the target responsibility system, and implement the accountability mechanism. Colleges and universities should normalize the work of study style, put it in a more prominent position, establish and improve a complete work system such as education and publicity, system construction, and investigation of misconduct, and realize the three implementations and three publicity of study style construction institutions, academic norms, and investigation mechanism of misconduct. Colleges and universities should publish an annual report on the construction of study style.
Five, the establishment of academic norms education system. Adhere to education as the foundation and strengthen the construction of study style and academic ethics. Strengthen the scientific spirit education of teachers and students, pay attention to the educational role of role models, and emphasize the self-discipline and self-moral cultivation of scholars. The Ministry of Education and China Association for Science and Technology jointly organized publicity and education on the construction of scientific ethics and style of study for graduate students nationwide. The Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education organized experts to go to various places to explain the Guide to Academic Norms of Science and Technology. Local education departments should organize and implement local publicity and education. Colleges and universities should offer lectures on scientific ethics for junior college students and educate graduate students on academic norms; Scientific moral education should be included in the category of teachers' post training and vocational training system, and in the category of administrative personnel's learning.
Sixth, strengthen teachers' scientific research integrity education. The construction of teachers' style of study should be the focus of special education and governance actions for the construction of style of study in colleges and universities. The core task of teachers' study style construction is to strengthen scientific research integrity. Colleges and universities should educate teachers on scientific research integrity once a year, incorporate the content of scientific research integrity into the annual assessment of teachers, and establish scientific research integrity files. Education guides teachers to love science and pursue truth, resist the impetuous atmosphere and behavior of opportunism, shoddy work and blind pursuit of quantity regardless of quality, and internalize the excellent style of study into conscious action. Teachers should strengthen the education and supervision of students, carefully review their experimental records and manuscripts, infect and educate students with the spirit of rigorous scholarship and serious and responsible style, and strive to become an example of teaching and educating people.
Seven, effectively improve the evaluation orientation. Respect the law of talent growth and academic development, and avoid quick success and short-term behavior. Local education departments should prevent the tendency of one-sided quantification in assessment and increase the weight of quality and contribution indicators. Correctly guide the social ranking of various colleges and universities to pay more attention to the quality and contribution of innovation. In the evaluation and appointment of professional and technical posts, colleges and universities should embody the orientation of emphasizing innovative quality and contribution, and comprehensively examine teachers' morality, teaching style, innovation and contribution. It is necessary to prevent the tendency of unilaterally linking academic achievements and academic awards with material rewards and job promotion.
Eight, give play to the role of expert advisory committees and academic committees. The Social Science and Technology Committee and the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education have set up study style construction committees respectively to strengthen the study style construction in colleges and universities more effectively. Colleges and universities should give full play to the important role of academic committees in the construction of study style, academic evaluation and academic development. Academic committees should actively undertake the education of academic norms and the publicity of scientific research integrity, and be responsible for the investigation and evidence collection of academic misconduct in our school.
Nine, strengthen the management of scientific research process. Colleges and universities should establish scientific and rigorous management systems, such as the original records and inspection system of experiments, the publicity system of academic achievements, the examination system of experimental data before thesis defense, the handover system of graduation and resignation research materials, and the signature and retention system of paper contributors. We will further improve the procedures for the evaluation of scientific research projects and the appraisal of academic achievements, strengthen the systems of application information disclosure, objection material review, online publicity and complaint acceptance, and increase the openness and transparency of scientific research management.
Ten, strengthen all-round supervision and restraint. Insist on supervision as the best preservative to strengthen the style of study and scientific research integrity. Advocating peer supervision, researchers and managers have the responsibility to complain if they find or have legitimate reasons to suspect that others have academic misconduct. To strengthen administrative supervision, all localities and departments should earnestly perform their duties of administrative supervision, guide their colleges and universities to carry out study style education, improve academic norms, and inspect the construction of study style every year. For the complaints of academic misconduct with great social influence, it is necessary to strengthen supervision and specific guidance to promote their fair and effective handling. In order to give full play to the role of social supervision, the identified academic misconduct should disclose the facts and results, and accept the supervision of social forces and news media.
Eleven, standardize the investigation procedures of academic misconduct. Reports of all kinds of academic misconduct shall be investigated by the universities where the parties are located. After receiving the report materials, the academic committee of colleges and universities (or the academic style committee) shall organize an expert group of not less than 5 people to conduct independent investigation and evidence collection from an academic point of view, put forward the investigation opinions objectively and fairly, and make them public to the parties concerned. If there is any objection, the parties may complain to the higher authorities. During the investigation, both the informant and the defendant have the obligation to cooperate with the investigation. The investigation process should be kept strictly confidential.
Twelve, seriously deal with academic misconduct. Dealing with academic misconduct should follow the principle of seeking truth from facts and being serious, while paying attention to safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the parties. The school makes a decision according to the investigation opinions of the expert group and relevant policies and norms, and reports it to the higher authorities. The treatment methods include canceling the qualification of project application, delaying the promotion of professional titles or positions, stopping the recruitment of graduate students, dismissing the post appointment, revoking the degree, and violating the law to pursue legal responsibility. The verified academic misconduct of students shall be dealt with according to the relevant degree and student status. If there is evidence to prove that the whistleblower has malicious or irresponsible reporting behavior, the whistleblower should be educated, warned and punished accordingly until he is investigated for legal responsibility.
Thirteen, establish a regular inspection system. Local education departments and institutions of higher learning should set up columns on their own websites, publish annual reports on the construction of study style, and disclose the results of investigation and handling of academic misconduct. The processing results must be kept for more than 3 months. The Ministry of Education selects a number of units and universities to conduct special inspections on the construction of study style every year.