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On April 11, Wuhan University announced that it would set up a new Lei Jun class in the School of Computer Science, planning to recruit 30 students, aiming to cultivate leading talents with full-stack computer engineering capabilities and entrepreneurial innovation and entrepreneurship qualities.
Lei Junban will carry out in-depth school-enterprise cooperation with domestic leading enterprises such as Xiaomi, and introduce excellent courses such as Internet thinking methodology and industry-leading software and hardware system design of leading enterprises. At the same time, the class will also hire well-known innovation and entrepreneurship mentors in the business world and top engineers in the industry to form a mentor team to teach students according to their aptitude and provide students with more professional and practical educational resources.
It is worth mentioning that the students of Lei Jun's class will adopt a more flexible training mode, personalized choice of academic system, and self-customization of bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees, and can be 100% qualified for research and study, and the duration of this doctoral degree is 6-8 years. Students will enjoy more abundant educational resources, including priority internships in leading enterprises, and special funds to support 100% participation in foreign training, study tours, and international and domestic academic conferences.
For this initiative, netizens have expressed their appreciation and support. Some netizens commented: "The construction of small and refined classes is a new model for cultivating strategic leading talents, an exploration of the practice of 'unveiling the leader', and an experiment to promote high-quality development." Some netizens said: "Yes, good, school-enterprise cooperation can cultivate people with more practical experience, and Wuhan University deserves to be Wuhan University." ”
According to public information, on November 29 last year, Lei Jun donated 1.3 billion yuan in cash to his alma mater, Wuhan University, to support scientific and technological innovation in the computer field and support the training of college students.
Looking back at higher education in mainland China:
There are deficiencies in the professional setting of colleges and universities
The matching rate of majors reflects the degree of matching between the structure of majors in colleges and universities and the structure of labor demand in the job market.
Among the undergraduate majors, the matching rate of science, agriculture and history majors is less than 60%. Among the junior colleges, the matching rate of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, finance and economics, manufacturing, environmental protection, meteorology and safety, electronic information, tourism, public utilities and other majors is also below 60%. This means that more than 40% of graduates are employed in jobs that do not correspond to their majors. The low matching rate of majors indicates that there are deficiencies in the professional settings of universities. This has been the case for many years, reflecting the phenomenon of universities working behind closed doors and not being sensitive enough to respond to market demand. Therefore, there is a need for more forceful and effective adaptation to market demand.
China's spending on education has only increased
In 2020, the total investment in education was 4,613.5 billion yuan, an increase of 8.39% over the previous year, accounting for 4.54% of GDP, remaining above 4% for the ninth consecutive year. At the same time, the national general public budget education expenditure and the national per capita general public budget education expenditure have shown a trend of "only increasing but not decreasing".
The general higher education area will be optimized
The forward-looking analysis suggests that the regional imbalance in the development of general higher education will continue to improve. This will include changes in the scale of education in various regions, changes in the structure of education, improvement in the level of education, and improvement in the efficiency of resource allocation. At the same time, it will also involve the continuous improvement of educational ideas, concepts, systems and systems that have led to the above-mentioned changes. In this process, the optimization of general higher education institutions will include the following aspects:
Xu Mei, spokesperson of the Ministry of Education, pointed out that the goal of the Ministry of Education is to achieve first-class universities and first-class disciplines by the middle of this century, and to reach the world's leading level in terms of quality and quantity. But we still have a long way to go to get there. Next, the Ministry of Education will guide the construction schools to further intensify reforms, enhance their connotations, and speed up the construction process, so as to promote the improvement of the mainland's overall higher education strength and international competitiveness.
Xiong Bingqi, president of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, believes that 90% of China's universities should carry out vocational education and cultivate vocational and technical talents and applied talents, rather than so many academic talents. However, colleges and universities are often reluctant to move in this direction, leading to a disconnect between talent training and societal needs.
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