1. The strategy of postgraduate training is to develop towards "strict education".
In the past, China's training strategy focused more on "lenient". In other words, graduation is not a problem as long as you are admitted to graduate school. Although there will be a certain elimination rate, it is still low on the whole.
How low is it? According to the data compiled by Huajing Industrial Research Institute in 2020, the graduation rate of master students in China is about 9 1%, and the elimination rate is less than 9%. In other words, in the past, as long as you were admitted to the graduate school and completed the daily scientific research tasks at the graduate stage, you could basically graduate normally and get a master's degree.
Although, according to the official statement, "leniency" does reduce the quality of teaching to a certain extent, which makes some graduate students lack a sense of urgency and fail to complete the tutor task seriously, so that the graduate students who eventually graduate may not meet the training requirements. But to be honest, is the direct cause of the low quality of graduates really caused by "leniency"? Personally, I think not.
From a national macro point of view, the number of highly educated elite talents was pursued in the past, and now it is time to pursue the quality of elite talents, which is also a background reason for the "strict" postgraduate training strategy.
2. An endless stream of graduate thesis scandals.
In recent years, there have been scandals of plagiarism or ghostwriting of graduate papers almost every year, including some full-time graduate students from 985 2 1 1 prestigious schools.
One of the biggest melons is the plagiarism of Zhai Tianlin's graduation thesis, so the year of Zhai Tianlin's accident was called "the first year of China" by the majority of graduates. After all, it was a watershed, and then the requirements for graduation thesis became more and more strict.
The direct reasons for the frequent scandals of graduate thesis are not only the self-discipline of graduate students, but also the excessive development of ghostwriting industry.
In recent years, the ghostwriting market for master's graduation thesis is extremely hot. Every year near the graduation season, a large number of ghostwriters or individual writers take orders, and the price often ranges from 200 yuan to 300 yuan per thousand words. If you want to review blindly, you only need to add one or two thousand yuan. Calculate, a master's thesis, a paper of 20,000 to 30,000 words, 78,000 to 1 10,000.
Not only in-service graduate students are looking for ghostwriting, but also many full-time graduate students at school. They either have no time or energy, or they are incompetent and want to spend money to buy a thesis for graduation.
And those writers or writers' companies will basically assure these customers who buy ghostwriting services that the articles are original by the authors and so on. But in fact, these institutions or individuals can guarantee the repetition rate of the final exam at most, and if you understand the tricks behind the repetition rate, you can know that the repetition rate of the paper can be reduced to the school standard by washing the manuscript.
More than just washing manuscripts, many writing institutions sell more than one manuscript. For example, in 2020, Liu Moumou, a graduate of Tianjin University, and Mou Lin, a graduate of Xiamen University, bought the same graduation thesis, which was finally discovered by the unit and the corresponding degrees were revoked.
It can be seen that because the paper ghostwriting itself belongs to academic misconduct, there is no way to restrain ghostwriting institutions from doing anything wrong in the process of ghostwriting. While providing services for academic violators, it also encourages a large number of graduation thesis scandals, which undoubtedly makes the society doubt the academic ethics and academic quality of graduate students, leading to advocating that graduate students should be "strict" from the whole public opinion level.
To sum up, on the one hand, the national postgraduate training strategy is changing, on the other hand, there are endless graduation thesis scandals, both of which make the country aware of the need to strengthen the "strict out" policy and strictly manage postgraduate students. Strict management cannot just shout slogans. The key is to have corresponding policies to stimulate universities to strictly manage their own students. So in 2022, we can see that the graduation thesis sampling system is repeatedly mentioned from the central government to the local government.