 important
bearing on national economic and social development, such
as life science, information technology, environmental
science and bioengineering. A number of schools have turned
leading disciplines, pillar disciplines and related disciplines
into discipline groups, thereby strengthening their ability
to make research breakthroughs. With strengthened ability,
they have made a great number of findings that have yielded
both social and economic results.
Courses
offered by schools are now more closely related to social
and economic development. And this has enabled institutions
of higher learning to serve the country's social and economic
development better.
At the
end of the 20th century, the Ministry of Education launched
a New Century Higher Education
Reform Program, according to which, a comprehensive
reform of higher education in the fields of talent training
mode, the content of courses, course system and teaching
methods will be studied |
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and implemented.
The program aims to train more people with professional
expertise who have an innovative and enterprising spirit
and a strong ability to solve practical problems.
As for
the management of teaching, most universities and colleges
have adopted "Credit hour system" or "Elastic
Credit Hour System" for many years. However, before
the adoption of this new system, the students only could
get their graduation certificate on the last day of the
fourth year, even though they had finished all credit
hours in advance. In its teaching reform, Peking University
employs multi-teaching models to cultivate the undergraduates
and encourages the students to develop through multi channels.
One of its measures is the actualization of "Credit
Hour System", which means as long as the student
finishes all required credit hours can he/she graduate
in advance. Students can study for a second bachelor degree
or for further education. The multi talent cultivating
models also include that the student can participate in
social practice or start his/her own business after graduation
while his/her file can be kept in the university. The
development plan of undergraduate education of Peking
University is to carry out common knowledge education
for freshmen and sophomores, to carry out "wide aperture"
education for junior and senior students, and to gradually
realize the free course selection credit hour system under
the guidance of teaching plans and instructors. |
