| The graduate education in the Central-South Mining and Metallurgy Institute that is the predecessor of the Central-South Industry University began in 1954.It has totally trained 159 postgraduates before the Great Cultural Revolution. So it has got the work experience and rational knowledge of postgraduate's education . After the establishment of academic degree system, the work that the University has done in training administrative structure as well as institution construction and theoretical study on postgraduate's education has made its academic degree and postgraduate's education form the training mechanism of advanced specialists which toughly keeps up with the Socialist modernization. The history of postgraduate's education in the Central-South Industry university is the epitome of reform and development of postgraduate's education in china.There is three main training patterns of Master's degree in the Central-South Industry University ,that is, the pattern of training Master of Engineering. Among these three patterns, the first pattern is a key to the whole work of academic degree and postgraduate's education in the process of transformation this pattern has exposed some problems and need further reform. The latest two patterns has vigorously been growing up in china. We have been achieve a better comprehension.The age of knowledge economy put forward the new definition andrequirement for (he talents. The strategy of "prosperity of the nation depending on Science and education" is the tactics that china answers for the age of knowledge economy. The higher institution should make active response to (his change in the direction of development and training patterns of post- graduate's education and give first priority to the cultivation of postgraduate's innovative ability. |