Yunnan University for Nationalities enrolls yoga postgraduates for the first time, and registration will begin on 10.
June 65438+1October 65438+In July this year, Yunnan University for Nationalities and India's West Yunnan Yoga University jointly held a postgraduate education project on traditional ethnic sports (yoga), which was successfully approved by the Ministry of Education. This is the first authorized point of yoga master's degree in China. In the 20 18 Graduate Admissions Guide officially issued by the Graduate School of Yunnan University for Nationalities, a master's degree in yoga has been added under the major of national traditional sports.
It is difficult for some netizens to understand how universities train masters in yoga, and even ridicule whether they can get masters in yoga practice, which is caused by their ignorance of physical education in universities. In the final analysis, it belongs to educational academic affairs that universities offer majors and add master's programs (master's training direction) and doctoral programs (doctor's training direction). Public opinion should learn to respect the autonomy of running a university. Public opinion can question how the university decides to add a master's degree in yoga, but it cannot replace the university's decision.
According to the information reported by the media, this paper fully demonstrates that Yunnan University for Nationalities has added a master's degree in yoga under the major of traditional ethnic sports. The specific training mode will be "2+ 1", with two years of study in China and one year in India. After completing the required credits and meeting the conditions for degree granting, you can get two degree certificates issued by China and India. Students in this major study Hindi, Sanskrit, Indian culture and other courses, as well as yoga pose, yoga philosophy, basic knowledge of meridians, basic knowledge of yoga medicine, yoga teaching method, yoga physiotherapy, yoga rehabilitation and treatment, yoga anatomy and so on. Obviously, not some netizens say that you can get a master's degree by practicing yoga. This is to train professionals and serve the yoga industry.
Public opinion should pay attention to two points about the new majors and master's programs in universities.
First of all, we must accurately understand what is the autonomy of universities. In recent years, China has been promoting the reform of separating educational administrative evaluation from management. The core of this reform is the decentralization of power from the central government to local governments and the decentralization of power from the government to schools, so as to implement and expand the autonomy of running schools. Public opinion generally supports the implementation of school autonomy, but in many cases, public opinion will interfere with school autonomy intentionally or unintentionally. To implement the autonomy of running a school, we should not only prevent administrative forces from interfering in running a school, but also avoid public opinion from interfering in running a school independently.
Public opinion can supervise the autonomy of universities. The main contents of supervision include whether colleges and universities run schools according to law, whether they respect the rights of teachers and students, and whether they implement education and academic-oriented management. However, they can't "exceed their authority" and accuse universities of not offering a certain major or course-offering a certain major or course. This is a matter of university autonomy, which should be decided by the professors' committee and academic committee of the university, as long as the university has the right to offer majors or courses. To promote the implementation and expansion of school autonomy, it is necessary to respect the autonomy of universities and urge them to establish an internal governance structure that makes good use of autonomy.
Secondly, universities (especially postgraduate education) cannot be considered as academic talents. Although China's higher education is about to enter the era of popularization, our society's understanding of higher education is lagging behind. When it comes to universities, many people think that universities should cultivate high-quality academic talents, including local undergraduate colleges and higher vocational colleges. According to the structure of higher education, it is very good that 5%- 10% of all universities can cultivate academic talents. The remaining universities should train applied technical talents and professional talents, including postgraduate education, and only some of them can train academic talents. The rest cultivate applied talents. Postgraduate education in the United States and Britain belongs to transitional degree and vocational education.
The Chinese government has clearly planned to promote the transformation of 600 local undergraduate colleges to carry out vocational education, and since 20 10, it has promoted the adjustment of postgraduate education structure, which is divided into academic masters and professional masters. By 20 15, the ratio of academic masters to professional masters has reached 1: 1. However, due to academic complex, many people do not recognize vocational education and professional master's degree. This is an ideological obstacle for colleges and universities to return to their own orientation and form a reasonable talent training structure.
With the implementation and expansion of the reform of school autonomy, there will be many "alternative" majors and "alternative" courses in China universities in the future. Public opinion should not make a fuss. Public opinion should pay attention to whether universities establish modern governance structure and improve modern governance ability. This is the key for universities to make good use of their autonomy, and it is also an important part of China's educational reform to realize educational modernization.