Research On The Model Of Running Agricultural Universities In China

With over one hundred years of development, derived from agricultural school in late 19th century, most of the Agricultural Colleges and Universities in China have been transformed into the forms of multiversity with distinctive professional features. Chinese Agricultural Colleges and Universities have made significant contribution to the economic and social development of China in ways of personnel training, scientific research and social service. Also, it has been playing an irreplaceable role in providing solutions to issues concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers especially, in current historical turning point of constructing new rural of socialism. Under unprecedented circumstance like this, the issue of how to develop Agricultural Colleges and Universities in China has come to be more and more protruding and concern-arousing.A mode in running Colleges& Universities is a simplified pattern to specify the status and functions and intercourse of each element in the process of operating, thus, it is a complex of series of philosophies and goals, structures of school subjects, procedures of operating and the management of Colleges& Universities. Compared with Colleges& Universities of other kinds, Chinese Agricultural Colleges& Universities have four features of industrial organizations, regionality, applicability, and diversity. There are mainly four stages through which the running of Agricultural Colleges& Universities has gone, namely, firstly, the stage of passive mode during which the industrial education was established and the advanced agricultural industrial school was formed. Secondly, the system of Agricultural education came into being in Man Kwok in the form of Independent College, Special School and Agricultural Universities. In this system, with Agricultural Universities as its mainstream, it is known as the coexistence of mode of open& close in which open outweigh close. Thirdly, with the foundation of PRC and the reconstruction of out-dated mode of education, a distinctive mode of industry-running took its shape which was closed and industry-oriented. At last, with the disintegration and reconstruction of Agricultural Colleges& Universities, the establishment of independent running of Agricultural Colleges& Universities, the mode is gradually changing from close to open and presents a pattern of diverse development. There is one thing to note that the above mentioned four stages are not isolated from one another, but are interacted with one and another in the form of synchronic diversity and evolution. The double nature of academy and vocation in university is a prerequisite of its role-play in social development, it is also an ultimate factor of the change of the modes which are processes in which dynamic balance is sought to deal with its double nature.After over a century's development, the system of Agricultural Education to tailor the economic and social development has been taken its overall shape with its spurred scale, comparative complete resources of teaching and enriched teaching experiences. But there are problems that one can not ignore:the poor teaching facilities and conditions, the lack of ability in sustainable development, the structure and setting of schools that can not meet the community's requirements, the scarce number, unbalance component and low quality of teaching staff, the shortage of original scientific researches at high level, the inability of the conversion from scientific researches to productivity. Agricultural Colleges& Universities education needs to be improved at a fast pace with the nation's strengthening strategy of development of high school education and the call of the construction of agriculture, farmer and rural area. But, the fact is, Agricultural Colleges& Universities education has never been attached importance to and its existence is being under threat by other non-Agricultural Colleges & Universities and is lagged by the weak agricultural industry.With the core value of developing modern agriculture and the strategic requirements of Chinese-style agricultural development, Agricultural Colleges& Universities should further enhance the construction of basic agricultural school, be excellent in traditional Agricultural majors, adjust its expert structure, try to form a balanced system with rational structure, distinctive features and competitive schools to provide the society with needed scientific achievements, solve some major technical problems in agriculture and train all kinds of talents that are needed in the field of agriculture. At the same time, Agricultural Colleges& Universities should get rid of the mono mode of talents training focused on the mono-school research-oriented and set the target of training more entrepreneurial and realistic talents. Also, Agricultural Colleges & Universities need to better complete their expert structure, optimize the curriculum structure, mix the new results in science with the practical productive technology in the teaching program, increase the students'ability in applying theories to practiceTo ensure the benign development of Agricultural Colleges& Universities, the government should enforce the act in education and the control of policy. Besides, it should put the development of Agricultural Colleges& Universities into its scheme of strategic high education development with more financial and political support. Furthermore, the government should play a major role in granting the construction of high-level agricultural universities of some chosen key Agricultural Colleges& Universities. The local Agricultural Colleges& Universities are encouraged to be transformed into high-level local universities with model-role. Still, the government and relative departments should invest greatly to the development of Agricultural Colleges & Universities. It is, hence, suggested that corporations be encouraged and guided to participate in the cooperation of production, learning and research with Agricultural Colleges& Universities with the favorable policies introduced by the government.The evolution of the mode of high-school running is a historical process in which not only contain the subjectivism and complexity of running-entity but also embody the internal mechanism of the changing running-mode that is formed during the course of the pursuit of more competitive practical modes sought by running-entity.