Functions of higher education institutions:
The function of colleges and universities refers to the social tasks undertaken by colleges and universities to meet the needs of social division of labor and social development. It is generally believed that modern colleges and universities have three functions: cultivating specialized talents, developing scientific knowledge and serving the society. The corresponding work is education and teaching, scientific research and various forms of social work.
Cultivating specialized talents is determined by the nature of colleges and universities, and it is the inherent function of college students, and it is constantly changing and improving with the development of society. Research activities existed at the beginning of the establishment of universities, but the function of developing scientific knowledge was marked by the establishment of Berlin University by W. Feng Te Humboldt at the beginning of the 9th century, and was not widely recognized until the end of the 9th century.
Brief introduction of higher education institutions:
Institutions of higher learning refer to schools that implement higher education, collectively referred to as undergraduate colleges, junior colleges and junior colleges. Colleges and universities are mainly divided into ordinary colleges, vocational colleges and adult colleges.
Chinese mainland's higher education system has two first-class, Ministry-provincial cooperation and basic capacity-building projects in central and western universities, namely, 20 1 1 plan,1plan, excellent engineer education and training plan, excellent legal talents education and training plan, excellent doctor education and training plan, excellent agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan and excellent teachers training plan.
School profile:
Colleges and universities are collectively referred to as universities, colleges, independent colleges, higher vocational and technical universities, higher vocational and technical colleges and junior colleges. From the level of education and training, including junior college, undergraduate, master and doctor. Among them, universities generally refer to comprehensive colleges.
Colleges include medical college, engineering college, business college, normal college, youth political college, management college, agricultural college, political science and law college, police college, tourism college, drama college, music college, transportation college, and fine arts college. Higher vocational colleges include vocational and technical college, vocational college and junior college.