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Example Research For The Domestic And World First-class Universities Forming Pattern

Posted on:2005-03-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X L MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360122994827Subject:History of education
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A university, as a place of making a thorough inquiry, especially the First World-class Universities, leads the trend of the human civilization's transmission and innovation. In China, with the purpose of realizing the great strategy of constructing universities in the world at an early date, We first must have a clear picture of universities developing history in China and in the world, and the world famous universities' appraisal criterion and their forming pattern, and understand deeply their significant important position and function in one country's ups and downs and modernization process, By so doing, We, on this account, can use for reference and absorb what is useful and discard what is not, so as to be advantageous to the practice for building our country's first standard universities.Tsinghua University was built in June 1909, and having developed into state-maintained Tsinghua University period, after then became one of the Country-class Universities and the national supreme university as famous as Beijing University that It is the basis of development of Tsinghua University. After then, there were some troubles in Tsinghua University's development. During the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Tsinghua University, and Beijing University, Nankai University were made into South-West United University that under hard circumstances, still cultivated the domestic and international scholars of its time and lots of excellent talented persons, and created a miracle of higher education in the wartime. Tsinghua University after being independent by carrying adjustment between colleges, became a comprehensive university including five colleges such as liberal Arts, Science, Law, Technology, Agriculture, and in all to 26 departments and institutes. But its teaching and management, still carried on that of the pre-war time no much change basically. After liberation Tsinghua University that was taken over became a multiple discipline engineering university by adjusting its departments When the Great Cultural Revolution was end, in order to meet the need of talented persons' training for modernization and the trend of the world universities development, Tsinghua University took great pains to construct the comprehensive research open World-class University. When we inspect the development pattern of Tsinghua University, it is not very hard of to find out that there are six reasons for it having become the State-class University: First, concept guiding ideology of paying attention to academic research; Second, president and democratic human administrative ideology; Third, strict but open teachers' selection and training system; Forth, excellent student body and strict, conscientious, serious good style of studying; Fifth, havingrelatively complete and universal subject constructing system; Sixth, having adequate education finding comparing with other universities in ChinaIf we want to make the State-class Universities into the World-class ones, we have to investigate the development history and its forming pattern of the World-class Universities nowadays. Here taking Harvard University as an example. Harvard University, having become a World-class University had a period of experience of hard undertaking. During the time of colony, Harvard University learned form Europe. But the school-running achievements were not good. After the Independent War Harvard University obtained strong point form all aspects, and reformed with keen determination, and made innovations unceasingly. When World War was II complete, it became the World-class University: Having become the World-class University, Harvard University's developing pattern reflects the following characteristics. First, pursue the outstanding school-running concept and the principal aim of upholding the truth; Second, give full play to basic functions that take teaching and research as a center; Third, subject set-up which is on the basis of general knowledge; Fourth, commodious free academic atmosphere; Fifth, attach importance to teachers' cons...
Keywords/Search Tags:Tsinghua University, Harvard University, First-class universities, Forming pattern
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