Research on Quality of Full-Time Professional Degree Postgraduate Education

To investigate the characteristics of full-time professional degree postgraduate education, this article discussed some problems faced and corresponding measures in the deepening reform of graduate training mechanism. Thus the education quality of full-ti

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Research on Quality of Full-Time Professional Degree Postgraduate Education Chunjun Zhu Abstract To investigate the characteristics of full-time professional degree ­postgraduate education, this article discussed some problems faced and corresponding measures in the deepening reform of graduate training mechanism. Thus the education quality of full-time professional degree postgraduate can improve by strengthening “double tutors” mechanism and students’ research practice. Keywords  Full-time postgraduate education  •  Training mechanism  •  The quality of education

78.1 Introduction Professional degree system is a well-known practice in the world for application talents cultivation in which the ratio of professional master’s degree gainer account for more than half of the ones in American and from 2003 to 2008, Britain granted the postgraduate degree mostly for curriculum postgraduates [1]. Since 1991, our country already has three levels of professional degree education system for doctor, master, bachelor at present. And to optimize the education structure of postgraduate education, better adapting to specialized personnel with high-level professional skills need of national modernization construction, the ministry of education, since 2009, started to recruit the full-time professional degree postgraduates mainly from undergraduates, and plans to make the proportion between professional degree postgraduate and academic ones eventually reach to 7:3 [2].

C. Zhu (*)  China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, China e-mail: [email protected]

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78.2 The Training Characteristics of Full-Time Professional Degree Postgraduates As one new postgraduates education form for adapting to social and economic development new situation, full-time professional degrees has the characteristics of “relatively independent education mode and specific career orientation”. It has merged the recruit and training system as full-time academic postgraduates, and recruits mainly undergraduates who lack of practical experience and professional skills, having higher foreign language level, strong accept ability, much time and energy. And it has clear career oriented training target in which enterprise and school teachers commonly guide students, and students complete their practice activities mainly through school experiment and enterprise scientific research.

78.3 Some Problems for Full-Time Professional Degree Postgraduate Cultivation At present in China, most of training units are still in groping stage for training full-time professional degree graduate student that relies mainly on the cultivation experience accumulation of academic graduate students and in service personnel applying for master’s degree.

78.3.1 There is Deviation for Social Understanding and the Students’ Quality is Uneven On one hand, the current university, students and ot