Research On Ideological And Political Education Of Postgraduate Students In The Context Of Comprehensive Reform

It signifies a further step in the reform of higher education from the training mechanism reform to the comprehensive reform of postgraduate education. The main purpose is to improve the quality of postgraduate education and train top-quality creative talents. Ideological and political education of postgraduate students is an important part of postgraduate education in training high-quality personnel to assume a very important responsibility. In the context of the comprehensive reform of postgraduate education, strengthening and improving as well as the innovation and development of the ideological and political education of postgraduates is of great significance to deepen the reform of postgraduate education and improve the quality of postgraduate education.The reform of postgraduate training system, which began in2006, develops into a formal reform of postgraduate education till2013. The main methods of the reform are admissions selection system, innovative talents training model, a sound supervisor responsibilities and rights mechanism, a reform evaluation and supervision mechanism and so on. The purpose of the reform is to establish a long-term guaranteed mechanism and a internal incentive mechanism of the quality of postgraduate education, and improve the quality of postgraduate training comprehensively. The comprehensive education reform is related to the ideological and political education of the postgraduates, which both regard the people-orientation as a core value, the innovative talents training as the theoretical support, and the incentive mechanism as the main content. In the comprehensive reform of postgraduate education, the trend of ideological and political education of postgraduate students targeting at training innovative talents has orientation function, assurance function, education function and development function. The ideological state of current postgraduate students is mainly healthy and positive and gradually becomes socialized and diversified. But there are also some problems as political consciousness, frequent psychological problems and honesty challenges. The overall study condition of current postgraduate students is good. The postgraduate students are under the high pressure of education, economy, love and marriage, interpersonal relationship and employment. On the whole, postgraduate students’ ideological and political education still has many problems to be solved in education idea, system and mechanism, ways and means, team construction, etc.To serve for the purpose of the comprehensive reform of postgraduate education, the ideological and political education of postgraduate students must carry out innovation and development. Ideological innovation is the guidance for the reform of ideological and political education for postgraduate students, which should insist on the principles of people-orientation, focusing on moral integrity, advancing with the times, pragmatic efficiency and flexible management. Establishing and improving a four-level management system is a guarantee for the smooth development of ideological and political education. The abovementioned four-level management system consists of four parts: institutions set up by universities concentrate on macro regulation and management; colleges are responsible for carrying out the specific work related to the ideological and political education; under the tutorial system, postgraduate student tutors should perform their duties which are imparting knowledge and educating people; the direct tutors of the students should pay a close attention to students’ ideological and political status.The only way to strengthen and improve ideological and political education of postgraduates is to integrate and optimize their education content in this respect. It should regard the ideal and belief education as the core, the psychological health education as the main line, the academic integrity as the key point, the postgraduates’ professional value as the entry point and the internet ideological and political education as the field. Building a trinitarian work force is the key element in strengthening and improving post-graduates’ ideological and political education, with mentors being the chief people in charge, post-graduates’ counselors being the key propellers and graduates being the main participants. Method renovation is the key in strengthening and improving post-graduates’ ideological and political education, which requires us to reform class teaching, improve academic culture, launch social practice, put emphasize on psychological health and build a comprehensive subsidization system. Carrier innovation and the strengthening of Internet ideological and political education is an emerging and promising way in strengthening and improving post-graduates’ ideological and political education.