The world is changing rapidly, and the growth of new technologies and new demands has had an unprecedented impact on the university education system.
The reverse influence of universities and society has always been a real problem that universities cannot avoid.This includes the need for the university's internal knowledge system to be open to the society, and the need for social resources and influence to accumulate to a certain stage and identify with its educational identity.It's like two magnetically attractive little balls that get closer and closer.Or like two seemingly different layers of media, atoms permeate each other over time.
This process is irreversible, but it takes a certain amount of time to achieve organic integration.
In the face of the strong demand for high-tech, strengthening the construction of industrial colleges, future technology colleges, and traditional universities is the most common three models, and mainly three different types of dominant.
The main body of the industrial college is mainly vocational college.The college directly connects enterprises or industries to transfer some rights, and the two are fully connected.Let the enterprise directly participate in the curriculum, double recruitment of teachers, platform construction, teaching management, graduation design, and graduation direction.The purpose of this model is to efficiently train the talents needed by the enterprise, which can be used upon graduation.Clearly, this is an efficient way of thinking, and the central issue is how to reconcile resources between the college and the enterprise.
The future technical college undertakes the main body is a high-level research university.Within the school, readjust resources to achieve cross-disciplinary, strong joint, overcome difficulties, create new technologies, solve technical problems, and support the country's long-term plan.In this model, it is necessary to innovate the talent training model and find the direction.Obviously, this model requires a higher level of teachers and students than the average vocational and technical school or university can afford.Tsinghua University and the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are at the forefront of the development of future technical colleges.
The third model is the most popular production-academic research model.For example, in universities to set up industry-academic-research transformation centers, docking with outside companies and enterprises, to achieve results transformation.At the same time, various horizontal projects are introduced to achieve the sharing of schools and external resources.Schools and enterprises often set up joint laboratories to cooperate in a particular field of research, but they often lack systematicity.
Each of these models has its advantages and disadvantages, and each has its own ecological niche.For industrial colleges, the businesses or companies connected to them may become the ceiling of their technology development.The industry is growing, and it's going to get faster.Based on a company or enterprise, or even a too concentrated direction to train talents, if the former does not develop smoothly, it will cause a major impact on the industrial college.For the future technical colleges, they are still internal resource adjustment, lack of inter-university technology joint research mode, lack of external support from industry colleges, and so on.
When considering construction strategies, we need to avoid the following mentality:
First of all, to abandon short and fast thinking, both schools and enterprises want to immediately achieve results, play a good fight, 1 + 1 immediately greater than 2.In terms of industry, academia and research, the best model, I think it is still necessary to push forward the Silicon Valley model.This is a process of universities and Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial environment gradually improving and promoting feedback, not overnight.
Second, we must abandon the single-player mode.Silicon Valley's development has benefited from the cooperation between high-level university groups, not Stanford or Berkeley.In addition, the university group also includes the perfect support of the community and other universities, forming a complementary relationship between the high school low-level talent cultivation model.
Third, the scientific research level of the university should be fully improved.Many of the industries developed from Silicon Valley were based on cutting-edge technology at the time, most of which were the fruits of free exploration by universities.One interesting phenomenon is that the more innovative the technology, the more likely it is not deliberately created, such as the Internet.Without a strong scientific research system, real technological breakthroughs cannot be achieved, but can only hover at a low level.
In setting the future between technical and industrial colleges, there is also an ecological niche, that is, how to make high-level research universities and large industries, companies alliance.This may seem similar to an industrial college, but it's fundamentally different.
Unlike ordinary universities or vocational colleges, high-level research universities do not transfer their educational design concepts and management rights in all directions.That is to say, the teaching and research management of high-level universities will be independent.
But, while maintaining independence, how can we stimulate interest and investment in external resources?
This is a real challenge.It's a bit like being in a relationship where both parties are attractive enough and willing to make a connection rather than relying on one side to pursue it.Will that happen?
Sure.After many years of development, many industries and industries in China are facing or experiencing transformation to enhance their position in the world industrial chain.This requires a large number of high-end talents related to R&D industry technology.On these two points, these industries and industries urgently need to cooperate with high-level universities to achieve a strong combination of roles.At this level, businesses may not be interested in participating directly in university teaching research, but they can provide the latest industry needs, funding, manpower and platform support.The feedback provided by the university is to train high-end talents and support scientific research.At the same time, universities should maintain their university traditions and meet the professional settings established by the Ministry of Education.
The above mentioned to avoid several mentality, then in contrast is to advocate the following ideas:
1) Careful planning and preparation for long-term construction.It is not appropriate to start a large-scale class immediately, mainly on a pilot basis.
2) The concept of a university group.Unite resources that can be combined to generate greater social impact.
3) Recruit high-level teachers and students.
Specifically, the implementation of the program requires the construction of a new type of college.There needs to be a complete interface between the new college and the outside industry (corporate enterprises), such as the board system.University leaders, college leaders, industry leaders, etc. as directors, discuss the industry's resource injection, industry needs, etc. at the board level.The Council commissioned the College to operate.As a college-level board of directors, it is subject to the basic statutes of the school-level board of directors.Through the board of directors, industry representatives regularly report on the latest developments and needs of the exchange industry, and timely improve and adjust the details of the college's training.
When it comes to recruiting high-level faculty, the industry can co-fund with universities.The additional salary can be used as an industry salary, improve the high level of treatment and recruitment attraction of teachers, and lay a good foundation for rapid agglomeration of talents.
In terms of student development, generous industry scholarships can be established to attract students to retain their future development in the industry.At the same time, make full use of the industry platform to provide students with a systematic internship experience.
In terms of discipline construction, it is necessary to fully absorb the necessary knowledge needs and create a general education system with industry characteristics, so that the training program can achieve a balance in width and depth.
Finally, it is necessary to mention the core point, is that the selected industry and enterprises must have a high level, and even in the global internationalization has partially reached the world level.This is to ensure that this union is a real strong union, rather than a family, which is a kind of coincidence, and in many cases, it is better to lack than indiscriminate.
Facing the future, the all-round docking of universities and social resources is an irreversible trend.The interaction between the university and the city will become closer.The university's industrial promotion of the city is an important driving source for the sustainable development of the city.Universities will also become more powerful and have an international perspective because of the development of cities and industries, as if they were standing on the shoulders of giants.Harmonious and harmonious university interaction with external resources is a very worthy interaction.In this process, neither side needs to cross borders too much and lose themselves.Rather, it is necessary to achieve the mutual transmission of energy flow through an effective interface.This interface is actually the cell membrane in the biological system.
Organizations form between independent cells, marching toward higher forms of life.
United universities and external resources form a community to explore the future education model!