Highlight 1: Large-scale enrollment provides more choices.
These days, in the hot weather of early summer, the enrollment counseling offices of major universities in Beijing are crowded with people. Candidates and parents who came to consult this year's high-tech policy surrounded the booths of all departments, and all departments also generously opened their doors to show their teaching achievements. Candidates and parents are welcome to visit.
Among the universities in Beijing this year, the most concerned is the large-scale enrollment policy to be implemented in Tsinghua University. The reporter learned from the information exchange meeting on enrollment held in Tsinghua last weekend that starting from 20 17, Tsinghua will break down the barriers between departments and carry out large-scale enrollment, training and management reform in an all-round way.
According to the Tsinghua University Admissions Office, this year, the school will integrate all undergraduate enrollment majors into the category of 16, and students need to fill in their volunteers according to their majors. In the freshman year, all students will receive a wide range of unified general education courses, professional guidance courses, professional basic courses and so on. Complete the professional confirmation before the end of the freshman year, and enter the relevant departments to start professional study in the sophomore year.
Liu Zhen, director of the Admissions Office of Tsinghua University, said that the general direction not only reflects the future social development direction, but also takes into account the consideration of promoting the integration of disciplines, which is conducive to the cultivation of compound innovative talents. "Our philosophy is to give students greater freedom of choice through large-scale enrollment and reduce the blindness and operational difficulty of volunteering. After a year of adaptation and adjustment, candidates can fully understand the subdivided majors in the big category, and then choose the majors that they prefer and are better at, which is more beneficial to the future development of students. "
It is understood that in recent years, more and more colleges and universities have begun to promote or implement large-scale enrollment, and large-scale enrollment is gradually becoming a new trend of college enrollment in the future. The relevant person in charge of Peking University Admissions Office said that Peking University began to implement large-scale enrollment in 2002. After students enter school, they will study professional basic courses first, and then study according to their interests after one or two years. "Large-scale enrollment has broken the past education model based on departments and will give students more choices."
Highlight 2: The newly established major focuses on national needs.
The reporter found that some colleges and universities have added some majors this year to cultivate comprehensive professionals, highlight the highlights of disciplines, meet the needs of national social development, and increase the attractiveness of high-quality students.
According to Xin Wei, director of the Admissions Office of Renmin University of China, this year the university added three undergraduate majors: World History, Data Science and Big Data Technology and Labor Economics. Among them, "Data Science and Big Data Technology Specialty" aims to cultivate compound talents of data science who are familiar with statistical analysis, computing technology, computer technology and other professional knowledge, so as to meet the national demand for data science talents.
Tsinghua University has added two undergraduate majors this year, namely, traffic engineering in civil engineering and landscape architecture in architecture. In response to China's urgent demand for talents in international organizations, the school has also added an undergraduate training program in the direction of international affairs and global governance to the School of Social Sciences.
According to the Tsinghua University Admissions Office, the newly added undergraduate major of International Affairs and Global Governance requires students to know about world history, international society and international organizations, aiming at enhancing students' cross-cultural cooperation and leadership, enabling them to have excellent negotiation skills and leadership, and consolidating their diverse fields and background knowledge, because "it is not enough to pass the language test in international organizations, but also to master the background knowledge in the corresponding fields".
In order to meet the diversified development needs of candidates, Beijing Normal University launched nine experimental classes in Beijing this year, including the national top-notch talent training experimental class in basic subjects, involving international economy and trade, law, economy, business administration, physics and other fields.
Highlight 3: Comprehensive evaluation focuses on scientific selection.
This year is the first year for Zhejiang and Shanghai to explore the reform of "New College Entrance Examination". In this context, comprehensive evaluation of enrollment has become an important enrollment channel and selection model for colleges and universities. Therefore, Peking University, Tsinghua and other universities will continue to explore the comprehensive evaluation admission model based on the Zhejiang-Shanghai college entrance examination, with a view to selecting talents with excellent comprehensive ability.
Tsinghua University implemented the "Leading Program" in Shanghai for the first time this year, and enrolled students according to the professional groups such as physics basic group, general basic group, chemistry basic group and clinical medicine group. The enrollment targets are ordinary high school graduates with excellent academic performance, comprehensive quality and outstanding innovation potential, and the applicant's comprehensive academic performance should be in the forefront of the whole grade. The selection procedure of "Leading Plan" is basically the same as that of Zhejiang "Trinity" comprehensive evaluation enrollment.
Last year, Peking University implemented the "Trinity" comprehensive evaluation enrollment for the first time in Zhejiang, and recruited 50 outstanding students from Zhejiang. "Trinity" comprehensive evaluation and selection process is divided into three links: preliminary examination, written examination and interview. Finally, according to the comprehensive scores of the college entrance examination, the independent test scores of colleges and universities and the high school level test of 6: 3: 1, the students are selected. This year, the school will further expand the comprehensive evaluation enrollment in Zhejiang, involving 27 majors in 24 departments.
It is reported that in the preliminary examination stage, the expert group of Peking University will conduct at least three rounds of evaluation on candidates' application materials, and make a comprehensive evaluation based on students' personal interests, high school academic performance, participation in social services, awards, personal characteristics and self-reports, and put forward evaluation opinions.
The person in charge of the Peking University Admissions Office said that the education reform could not be accomplished overnight. It is necessary to observe the effectiveness of the reform and make corresponding adjustments, and it will take some time to test. "Trinity" comprehensive evaluation of enrollment is a useful attempt to recruit students independently in colleges and universities in the future, which can be integrated into the concept and standard of university selection and help to break the "one exam for life".
In 20 17, Beijing's high-tech policy was stable, showing three bright spots. Paying attention to the college entrance examination enrollment policy is very helpful for candidates to fill in their college volunteers.