Credit System Reform And Development Strategies

University's academic administration is an important means for collaborating and stabilizing the academic orders, prompting and improving teaching quality and administration efficiency. The credit system is different from the academic-year-administration mechanisms and started in Harvard University in 1872. In the following 100 years or so, the credit system was adopted by the universities of many countries. In 1918, it was adopted by Peking University of China and cancelled in the 1950s and replaced by the soviet style, and in 1978 some of China' s universities began to try the credit system or readopt it.Since the late 1970s, the credit system has been a hot topic and focus in China' s higher education reform. It is well-acknowledged by many higher education administrators and researchers that the credit system is appropriate for the market economy and the whole social needs; credit system reform complies with the objective requirements of social and economic 'development and that the research into China' s higher education credit system is not only an academic undergoing, but also a very important practical task. Under the current new circumstances, how to set up a credit system of academic administration has been widely concerned and has become the key point, hot point and rub for the current academic administration reform.The thesis bared on the trends of China' s higher education credit system reform and clued by the history, statuesque and the outlook of the credit system, employs means of document research, historical research, comparative research, and interview, and covers the following parts: the credit system of America and Japan and its implications for China; the practice of China' s higher education credit system and suggestion on how to further implement the reform.The author hopes to enrich the relearn theories about the credit system in China and to make a reference for a new turn credit system reform.