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On The Social Service Function Of Chinese Local Universities

Posted on:2009-09-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C A ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360242494605Subject:Principles of Education
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In the knowledge economy era, knowledge has become a decisive factor of social development. Higher universities are the important bases for knowledge innovation, power stations of social development. The development of higher universities'function is close related with the social advancement. With the development of society, higher universities should fully develop their social service function in order to adjust to and meet the social requirement. With the deepened reforms of higher education system, the local universities have already become the important components of higher education. How should Local universities fully develop their social service function and become real service station in order to complete their historical missions. This subject has increasingly attracted universal concern by the staff of higher education. So this dissertation attempts to probe into the historical evolution, current situations as well as the dominant forces in the development of Chinese local universities'social service function from the different systems, analyses the problems with the ultimate aim to put forward some suggestions of local universities'social service function.This dissertation is divided into five parts.The first part is an introduction to the dissertation .It explains the cause that put forward the questions and the significance of the study ,sums up the documents about the local university's research, introduces the train of thought and research methods, and defines the chief concepts and terms .The second part gives a review to the evolution of local universities'social service function, analyses the development stages of foreign and Chinese local universities'social service function.The third part introduces the current development conditions of Chinese local universities'social service function .It analyses the inner powers in the development of Chinese local universities'social service function which consist of social development, tendency of higher education, governmental support, local universities' needs themselves and so on. The main forms of Chinese local universities'social service function are generalized which include union between local universities and universities , cooperation between local universities and enterprises, cooperation between local universities and local government, service for the rural provided by local universities. Thereby, the fundamental features could be summarized which include region, diversity, disadvantage.The fourth part deeply analyses problems of Chinese local universities'social service function .The first is the problem of government which includes too many constraints on local universities , disconnection between government and local universities . The second is the problem of enterprises which includes deviation of cooperation concept between enterprises and local universities, the low level of recognition on local universities by enterprises. The third is the problem of local colleges themselves which includes backward concepts of the social service, unbalance of majors, poor overall strength of scientific research, inaccurate orientation, and imperfect mechanism of social service.The fifth part ,on the basis of former parts, according to problems of Chinese local universities'social service function ,some suggestions are put forward on how to optimize Chinese local universities'social service function .Some countermeasures are put forward in order to upgrade local universities'social service function .The government should reduce administrative interference, perfect laws and policies, strengthen bi-directional capability, improve interaction between the government and local universities. Enterprises should change ideas, establish the unified body between production and research. Local universities should update ideas, strengthen majors, speed up transformation rate of scientific research, orientate accurately, and perfect mechanism of social service. In addition, some problems should be paid enough attention on the practice by local universities in the implementation of the social service function. The first is to hold to the scholarly, insist the base of social service function. The second is to do what the local universities can do, grasp the limits of social service function. The third is to consider the differences, play advantages, highlight the characteristics of social service function. The fourth is to examine the relationship among teaching, research and social service function, construct coordinated system about functions.
Keywords/Search Tags:Local universities, Social service, Function
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