Study Of The Academic Responsibility Of The University Teachers In China

With the coming of the knowledge and economy society, knowledge is becoming increasingly important in its development. As the place to spread and explore knowledge, university has always been taken as an academic and cultural organization and technicality is one of essential nature of it. But now with the spread of academic corruption, academic responsibility taken by university teachers, those who create, spread and apply knowledge, has widely been concerned about. Hence this thesis attempts to seek what is the university teachers' academic responsibility and how to ensure the teachers will take the responsibility.Academic responsibility can be defined as the obligation in the study and research work for those professional personnel in universities and scientific research institutions. These professional personnel must abide by the academic criteria and regulations in teaching, scientific research, contribution to society and other academic work;they must be responsible in the teaching work, achievement in the scientific research, the way and the process of the academic work;and set good examples in practicing academic morality and being honest in the scientific research. University teachers must take the responsibility to spread and hand down the knowledge, to explore and create new knowledge, to apply and renew the knowledge, to manage and evaluate the knowledge. The vocational particularity of university teachers and the function of the university determine the academic responsibility the university teachers should take. As a learned man, the university teacher is an element of the school and society as well as an independent researcher. Accordingly, to take the academic responsibility of university teachers are affected by social and political, economic and cultural factors, and also by the management system of school resources, academic research and staff. Meanwhile, the teachers' academic level and self-discipline have influence on how the teachers can assume the responsibility. Therefore, in order to ensure the university teachers will take the academic responsibility, the following steps must be taken: to set the guarantee system by the government, academic circle and the market;to establish the sound academic system;to improve the university teachers' quality.