A Comparative Study On The Degree System Between China And The UK

The degree system is an important component of the higher education system. Improve the degree system is an important part of higher education reform. Increased demand in the community and the massive expansion of higher education under the dual function, both contradiction and the adaptation gap above the existing degree type, the talented person raise pattern and the society needed gradually revealed; degree structure in the rank and the type, distribution of degree conferred institutes and degree quantity proportion are all imbalance; the unit of degree awards too numerous disorderly and the degree awards the population to increasable day by day, the original verification principle and the means lack of operational in reference; the degree quality assurance and monitoring system is to be established. From a comparative perspective on degree system research, improving our system and building graduate degree and quality assurance monitoring system have important practical significance.British degree systems pass through the long development which accumulated the rich experience are worth to excavating with the model. This article has carried on the limits to the degree and the degree system connotation, through comparing the development vein of the Chinese and British degree system, analyzing the degree system of China and Britain's operation characteristic. The British degree system and the standard, the degree authorization verification and the degree quality monitoring are three aspects obtained which had inquired about the Chinese and British degree system operation aspect existing differences, proposing relevant recommendations to improvement Chinese degree system.Although, both the British and Chinese degree system in the type and structure are basically the same, but the two countries have experienced different places in the historical development, showing a lot of difference in specific operation. British degree establishment nimble, society pointed strong, the degree which called "the gold content" is higher, the degree unit has a bigger autonomy and the certain independence, these are all distinguishes to China's degree system. The manifests in these three links are the degree system and standard, the degree authorization and the verification, the degree quality monitors in all.Profiting from the success experience of British degree system, in view of the deficiency of Chinese degree system, the author made through the reform of the current degree authorization verification system, adjustment graduate management competence, enhance autonomy of the universities, establishment and implementation of internal and external integration degree of quality assurance mechanism, and other countermeasures. These including: a degree of authority to declare eligibility restrictions and a system of provincial degree increase authorized management control; giving full play to the degree mandated audit function of macro-control, adjusting the distribution structure of postgraduate education rationally.