Shanghai will implement sampling inspection methods for master's degree theses.
If the master's thesis is not well written, it will be settled after the autumn. Recently, Shanghai issued a notice that 5% of last year's master's degree theses will be randomly selected every year, and the degree-granting units that have "had problems with their degree theses" for two consecutive years will be interviewed. Insiders said that the New Deal has played a warning role for colleges and universities. However, to improve the quality of graduate students, there should be a series of supporting mechanisms.
165438+1October14th, the Shanghai municipal education commission and other units issued the "sampling method for master's degree theses in Shanghai" (hereinafter referred to as the "method"), stipulating that "the sampling scope of master's degree theses shall be conducted once a year, and in principle, the sampling scope shall be the theses awarded master's degrees in the previous academic year. All master's degree awarding units and first-class disciplines or professional degree categories are included in the sampling range. The sampling rate of master's degree thesis is around 5%. "
In addition, the same tutor instructed four or more graduate students to obtain master's degrees in the same year, and the on-the-job personnel studied for master's degrees, delaying obtaining master's degrees for more than 1 year. The proportion of key sampling inspection will be increased to about 10%. Conduct quality interviews with degree-granting units that have appeared "problem dissertations" for two consecutive years, with a high proportion or a large number of articles.
On October 29th, 2065438+200465438+/KLOC-0, the the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and the Ministry of Education issued the Sampling Method for Doctoral and Master's Dissertations, which stipulated that "sampling of doctoral and master's dissertations should be conducted once a year".
Will the degree be revoked if the graduate thesis is found to have problems? In this regard, there is no clear provision in the Measures. Hou, an associate professor at the Institute of Higher Education of East China Normal University, believes that this shows that the policy is still "flexible". Previously, master students and doctoral students in domestic universities had to take a certain proportion of off-campus blind exams before graduation defense, and they could only defend after passing the exams. However, after the defense was passed, there was no ex post facto tracing system.
"For universities, it plays a warning role," Hou believes, but this is not a complete solution.
"The New Deal has certain benefits in purifying the academic environment, which is conducive to breaking the situation that doctors are difficult to get in and out." A doctoral student from a university in Shanghai told Southern Reporter. But at the same time, she also said that there are two problems in the sampling system. "First, the spot check afterwards was judged to be problematic, which is not only the responsibility of the school, but also the responsibility of the blind reviewer; Second, the evaluation scale is relatively vague compared with papers in science and engineering, humanities and social sciences. "
Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at China Academy of Educational Sciences, believes that it is far from enough to improve the level of scientific research only through the reform of the paper sampling system. "There is no paper sampling system in the United States, but according to the academic rules prevailing in universities, it is unlikely to pass. Some people have problems with their doctoral thesis and may be abandoned by the system. "
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