A Comparative Study: Cultivating Mode Of Postgraduate Between Singapore And Thailand

The postgraduate cultivating mode is a key factor which determines the quality of graduate students. Learning and introducing foreign postgraduate educational advanced ideas and experiences is most essential. There is an urgent need to explore a new postgraduate cultivating model while also adhering to China's national conditions for the sake of society's high-end talent demand.China and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)are geographically close and have significant cultural similarities. Since the late 1990s, the national postgraduate cultivating model has demonstrated a certain degree of convergence trends. Graduate education and cultivating concepts tend to be more plural and diverse. Among the ASEAN, Singapore and Thailand, in terms of economic and educational development, have tended to be the leaders. These two nations have a wide range of collaboration and shared innovation with China, but China's academic circles often do not take notice of these foreign educational cultivating models, let alone attempt to formulate a systematic theoretical result. Studies on postgraduate cultivating modes of Singapore and Thailand will greatly benefit our overall quality of domestic graduate students, once China formulates its own postgraduate cultivating model. This will further promote the internationalization of China's postgraduate education process.This paper seeks to highlight the two prominent ASEAN countries'(Thailand and Singapore) postgraduate cultivating modes which serve as the starting point of comparison and research. The research uses combined methodologies, past and present, international and domestic, theoretical and practical, in order to illustrate four parts to research on Singapore and Thailand's postgraduate cultivating modes.The first part is a general description of the purpose and meaning of the research paper, related concepts and analytical study of the status quo at home and abroad, research methods and thesis-based components of the basic theoretical framework. The second part concerns the geographic, political, economic, cultural sides, as well as postgraduate cultivating mode's status at present and the development process, in order to provide a full analysis and comparison study benchmark to the whole paper. The third part presents an in-depth analysis to the mode of postgraduate education and cultivating of Thailand and Singapore, and analyzes and compares these two countries in different aspects: cultivating objectives, cultivating methods and cultivating evaluation to lay the foundation for further research. The fourth part comprises the last two chapters, offering a characteristics analysis of the post-graduate cultivating model of Singapore and Thailand for China's reference and use: 1. The government will increase investment in graduate education; 2. More practical learning materials; 3. To speed up production and research integration process; 4. To adjust the length of postgraduate training; 5. To speed up the process of the internationalization of graduate education, such as actively adjust foreign student policies and adapt to local conditions and strengthen China- Singapore-Thailand collaboration vis-à-vis cross-cultural models for graduate students. The paper hopes to further enrich and improve our cultivating of graduate students'theoretical and practical cultivating modes which will contribute to and further enhance the Chinese system already in place.