Full Description
This open access book presents 12 selected articles published in 2023 in the Chinese journal Universities and Disciplines (quarterly), which is a comprehensive academic journal sponsored by the Ministry of Education, the Center for Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development, and Peking University. The selected articles focus on the theory and practice of China's university and discipline construction, showcasing the distinctive development path of China's universities and disciplines. This book covers topics such as Chinese higher education construction, education digitization, basic disciplines, professional degrees, and subject evaluation, and includes case studies of discipline development in the talent cultivation practices of Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Southern University of Sciences and Technology.
This book is a useful reference for researchers, university leaders, policy makers and other readers who are interested in the development of higher education in China.
Contents
1. The Significance, Mission and Pathways of Higher Education's Leading Role.- 2. Digitalization and Paradigm Revolution in the Liberal Arts.- 3. Knowledge Attributes and Realistic Challenges of Basic Disciplines in Humanities.- 4. Reflections on the Cultivation of High-Level Talent in Mathematics.- 5. Considerations and Reflections on Coordinating the Catalogue of Disciplines and Specialties with Discipline Evaluation.- 6. On the Practice of Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Pattern Construction of Inter-discipline Development in China—Based on an Analysis of the Interdisciplinary Constructing Units at Higher Education Institutions Listed in the Project of Building World-Class Universities.- 7. Empowering the Transformation of Emerging New-Type Research Universities: The Organizational Innovation of University Technology Transfer System.- 8. The Practice of and Reflections on Autonomous Degree Accreditation in China: A Case Study of Peking University.- 9. Integrating into the Overall National Development: An Analysis of Development Prospects of Macao's Higher Education.- 10. Exploration of Cultivation Mode for Professional Degree Graduate Students Under the Whole Chain Sci-Tech Innovation System: A Case Study of the Aerospace Information Research Institute at Chinese Academy of Sciences.- 11. On the Pattern of the Emergence and Development of Top-Notch Talent: The Emergenic-Epigenetic Model and Its Implications for China's Talent Cultivation in Basic Disciplines.- 12. Status and Trends of Basic Science Research in China—An Analysis Based on the Stanford University List of World's Top 2% Most-cited Scientists.
