Du Zhanyuan, Vice Minister of Education, said at the 20 14 International Forum hosted by Nankai University that there is still a big gap between the training of high-level talents in China and their own needs.

It is understood that the total number of graduate students in China is about 6.5438+0.7 million, which is roughly equivalent to the size of registered graduate students in the United States in the 1980s. In 20 12, the total number of doctoral graduates in China was 56,000, accounting for about 40% of that in the United States, and the total number of master graduates was about 560,000, less than 70% of that in the United States. Ask Kay if you have any concerns & talk to Taoist teachers.

The statement made by officials of the Ministry of Education about the shortage of high-level talents in China is regarded by some experts as a signal to continue to increase graduate enrollment.

1999, with the promulgation of the Action Plan for Revitalizing Education Facing the 2 1 century, higher education entered the stage of rapid enrollment expansion.

In 2008, the Ministry of Education said that the enrollment expansion from 65438 to 0999 was too hasty, and gradually controlled the proportion of enrollment expansion. Wu, former vice minister of education, revealed at the opening ceremony of "2007 National Doctoral Academic Forum" held by Tongji University that the proportion of postgraduate enrollment expansion in China will be controlled within 5%, and postgraduate training should be changed from expanding scale to improving quality.

However, in 2009, China began to actively promote professional degree graduate education, and the enrollment expansion of graduate students once again ushered in an opportunity. According to Du Zhanyuan, since the establishment of China's degree system in 198 1, 490,000 doctoral students and 4.26 million master students have been trained in the past 30 years, of which the postgraduates trained in the last five years account for about 50% of the total training.

Looking up the notice of the national postgraduate enrollment plan for 20 1 1 ~ 20 14 published on the website of the Ministry of Education, it is found that the total enrollment scale of postgraduate students in China has expanded from 560,495 in 20 14 to 63 102014. However, from 20 12 to 20 14, the growth rate gradually slowed down, being 4.3%, 4.0% and 3.8% respectively.

In recent years, blind enrollment expansion is considered to be an important reason for the decline in the quality of graduate education.

Beijing business today pointed out today that a master tutor in a university generally needs to instruct more than four full-time master students, while the average number of professional master students who are studying on the job has reached five or six or even more than 10, which is already in a state of full load and high pressure. Under such circumstances, the expansion of enrollment will cause greater work pressure and even harm to tutors. In this case, some tutors' guidance to students is bound to become a mere formality, and graduate education has actually become a "post-undergraduate" education, which cannot improve the professional research ability.

First, the blind enrollment expansion of graduate students will also lead to the neglect of undergraduate education in colleges and universities, and the cost of acquiring knowledge and employment opportunities for undergraduates is getting higher and higher. According to the data of the State Council Academic Degree Office, there are more than 700 universities in Chinese mainland and more than 1000 universities in the United States, but there are more than 3 10 universities with doctoral degree authorization qualifications, while there are only 253 universities in the United States. At present, many undergraduates actually regard further study as a way to escape the pressure of employment. Society has also formed an academic atmosphere. A staff member in charge of recruitment in a state-owned enterprise told reporters that some of the positions they provide every year are fully competent for undergraduates, but under the current circumstances, only highly educated graduates can be given priority.

Second, in recent years, some colleges and universities have blindly expanded their enrollment, which has exceeded their resources. According to the Beijing News, this year, Peking University, Beijing Normal University and other universities have stated in their enrollment brochures that some graduate students should pay for their own accommodation and other expenses.

Third, however, some colleges and universities have not stopped expanding their enrollment. 2 1 Xiong Bingqi, vice president of Century Education Research Institute, pointed out that this is because the thinking of pursuing educational GDP in colleges and universities has not changed. Many colleges and universities believe that only holding postgraduate education, or even the scale of postgraduate students exceeds that of undergraduates, is the performance of high school level.

Fourth, he also pointed out that reversing the trend of enrollment expansion faces strong practical interest resistance, including: if the scale of graduate enrollment is reduced, the way out for undergraduate graduates will be further narrowed; If the scale of graduate students is controlled, master's and doctoral supervisors in some schools will compete for posts. In addition, some colleges and universities hope to further upgrade and increase master's and doctoral programs.

5. "Pursuing high level and high quality is the eternal goal of postgraduate education. After China's graduate education has developed to a considerable scale and the system structure has been relatively perfect, the strategic focus should be shifted to comprehensively improving the quality of graduate education. " Bie Dunrong, director of the Higher Education Development Research Center of Xiamen University, said that the quality of postgraduate education is a key element of the country's innovation capability. Without a high level of postgraduate education quality, it is impossible to have a high level of national innovation ability.

Six, it was suggested that to strengthen the capacity building of graduate students, we should take a multi-pronged approach, and the government, universities, society, tutors and graduate students should perform their respective duties. The government should do a good job in macro-management of graduate education and coordinate the implementation of funding and funding for graduate education. Colleges and universities should establish the idea that quality is the lifeline of postgraduate education, strengthen the construction of hardware facilities, implement the construction plan of tutor team, provide excellent soft and hard conditions for tutors and postgraduates, and improve the internal quality assurance system. Relevant social organizations actively participate in postgraduate education, cooperate with universities, and establish a collaborative education model with various forms and mechanisms. Tutors constantly strengthen teachers' professional ethics and academic accomplishment, sum up the experience and lessons of postgraduate training, improve guidance methods and improve guidance ability. Graduate students, on the other hand, concentrate on their work, be diligent and inspirational, devote themselves wholeheartedly to learning activities such as course study and project research, and constantly improve their learning and research methods to improve their learning efficiency and quality.

Seven, some people think that the most urgent thing for our country at present is to learn from foreign educational management systems and school-running systems, effectively separate management from running schools, implement school-running autonomy, and establish a modern school governance structure.