Research Of Characteristic Development For Graduate Education In Military Academy In The New Period

Graduate education in the military academy, as the highest level of military higher education, bears the profound responsibility to produce high-quality new type military personnel for our army who are "competent to fight and fight to win". However, during the development of military graduate education in the new period, there have appeared some inevitable new problems and contradictions. For instance, military graduate education is dissociated with the post-oriented education system for the growth and promotion of officers, and its orientation is not clarified; development directions and training objectives for graduate education in different schools show convergences, and lack distinctive features; many schools take extensional development model pursuing quantity and scale, with insufficient development aftereffect; the all-round quality and post-qualified ability of graduated students are weak, and the training quality is in low level etc. The existence of these problems urges people’s attention to the reform and transformation of military graduate education in the new period. To these problems, this article conducts relatively systematic and in-depth exploration, using methods including combination of theory and practice, qualitative and quantitative analysis, text analysis and questionnaire survey. This thesis has completed main work in the following three aspects and arrived at corresponding conclusions:Firstly, the thesis makes general analysis on the internal and external environment of military graduate education using the SWOT method. Through the systematic analysis on the advantages and disadvantages, and opportunities and threats, the thesis concludes corresponding SWOT matrix and calculates impact weights of these factors based on the expert scoring, and then shows the most influential factor to the development of graduate education in military academy both qualitatively and quantitatively, finally it poses some problems that the orientation is indeterminate and direction is unclear, and the training of innovation ability lacks as well as the cultivation of application ability lags behind, and external challenges are severe. Using SWOT strategic combination method, the thesis further lists requirements for development from all aspects systematically, and most of these requirements focus on distinct characteristics. These results directly indicate that following a unique development road is not only the inevitable direction of military graduate education development in the new period, but also the most possible and promising direction. Secondly, the thesis argues about the position of graduate education in military academy in the new military education system, and the orientation of graduate students training, and the definition of graduate education characteristics. Aimed at the problems that the orientation of graduate education is not clear in the current education system of military schools, and the training objectives are too single to meet the requirements of the new military transformation, this thesis, based on the overall analysis of the features, functions and historical development vein of undergraduate, post-oriented and graduate education in military schools, proposes that the graduate education in the military academy should have dual attributes of both high-level undergraduate education and intermediate and advanced post-oriented education, and proactively integrate into the dominant system of post-oriented education for military officers, and achieve the integrated development of graduate education and post-oriented education, which can not only extend the connotation of the former, but also enhance the level of the latter, and they have complementary advantages and can promote each other. This thesis also, based on in-depth analysis of the changing procedure of military graduate education training objectives and the problems remained, concludes that the training objectives in the new period should not be confined to the training of research-oriented talents or simple application-oriented talents, instead it should be aimed at the cultivation of innovative and inter-disciplinary military talents, whose connotations are clarified as well; through the comparison with traditional military graduate education and graduate education in civilian universities, the thesis presents a general analysis of the three important features of the characteristic development for military graduate education.Thirdly, the thesis projects for the achievement path of characteristic development of graduate education in military academy. According to the orientation of both high-level undergraduate education and intermediate and advanced post-oriented education, the form has been designed of the integrated development of graduate education and post-oriented education for short term as well as long term; and then, on the basis of the requirement of this integrated development and the orientation to the training of innovative and inter-disciplinary military talents, a "War-Study-Research" training mode is built, so that every link of graduate education in the military academy can be directly oriented to the troops, to the preparation for military warfare and to the future battlefield; according to the definition of the characteristics of graduate education in military academy in new period, methods have been planed which require to stick to distinctive military feature, and to strengthen practice feature, and also to develop one’s own characteristics.The findings of the research in this thesis provide both theoretical and practical reference to the improvement of military graduate education quality, to the training of innovative and inter-disciplinary military talents who can meet the requirement of new military transformation and to the decision-making military institutions and graduate students training units in their reflections on the reform and transition of military graduate education.