Why is it generally good to cancel the unified doctoral examination? 1, background:
Not long ago, the Graduate School of Shanghai Jiaotong University issued a new enrollment brochure "Since 20 18, the school will no longer organize a unified doctoral entrance examination". If you want to study PhD at Jiaotong University, you can either study directly as an undergraduate or as a graduate student, or you can only apply and hope to pass the exam.
2. The original intention of the enrollment policy reform:
Wang Yaguang, executive vice president of the Graduate School of Shanghai Jiaotong University, introduced in detail the specific measures and original intention of adjusting the doctoral enrollment policy of Shanghai Jiaotong University.
According to the introduction, there are only three ways to become a doctor at Shanghai Jiaotong University. First, undergraduates directly apply for doctoral studies after graduation, which is consistent with the process of recommending graduate students who are exempt from exams, that is, sending graduate students; Second, master students and doctoral students continue to study, that is, those who are studying for a master's degree apply to walk their doctoral students, and third, the "application-assessment" system that has aroused widespread discussion.
The so-called "application-assessment" system is to replace the national unified entrance examination selection system with the assessment of candidates' individual applications, to examine candidates' training potential and academic innovation ability through independent comprehensive assessment of schools, and to strengthen the autonomy of tutors and scientific research teams in enrollment selection.
3. Why is it controversial?
Ordinary college candidates sigh on the Internet. For example, one of them wrote, "I am very shy to apply for the system, and I have to admit that my ability is lacking, and I have to fill in a lot of materials that need to be prepared. I am deeply ashamed, so I am very keen on the admission of the unified examination ... "-However," I didn't taste anything until today when I learned that the application examination system was implemented and the independent proposition examination was cancelled. There was still some confidence in the cross-school exam, but now it has been poured cold water, and all the disadvantages have been revealed. "
This shows that the system has certain control over the quality of selecting doctors. Obviously, people who want to apply for a doctorate will be screened first, which further improves the level of doctoral students. If possible, the level of doctoral students will be improved, and I believe that doctors will be more valuable. This is a good thing for those who are committed to Kao Bo.
4. Benefits:
In 20 14, the Graduate Student Association of China Agricultural University conducted a questionnaire survey on the doctoral students selected by the school through the "application-assessment" system at that time. The survey results show that 37.05% of doctoral students think that the "application-examination" system avoids the single examination of the ability to take exams and is beneficial to the examination of the comprehensive quality of doctoral students. There are 2 1.43% students who think that canceling the unified examination can attract more graduate students to apply for the examination and improve the enthusiasm of the school.
The standard of doctor should not be "examination", but ability.
For basic education, making every child stand on the same starting line is undoubtedly the goal that the state and educators should strive to achieve. The college entrance examination has a great influence on everyone. Strive for fairness.
But for higher education, paying too much attention to fairness will undoubtedly damage the efficiency of education, which is no longer necessary. The recruitment of doctors should produce results, so the enrollment stage should be guided by research results, not curriculum results.
I quite agree with a netizen's analysis: "A person's strong scientific research ability and good published articles often mean that he is good at mathematics and English writing. Such people's college entrance examination results are generally not too bad. Even if the college entrance examination is seriously abnormal, his learning ability and fighting spirit are much better than those around him. Often he has seized the opportunity to enter the 985 or 2 1 1 university graduate school through graduate school. To take a step back, even if the undergraduate course did not respond, I worked hard to publish a lot during my master's degree, and I often won the favor of my tutor through the publishing system. "
6. Let those who have unclear goals give up their thoughts in time.
Because many people actually don't have a clear understanding of what doctors need to do and whether they can graduate, it is only an inertia to apply for doctors to a large extent, and it is not a bad thing to give up this idea as soon as possible.
Generally speaking, the core and essence of modern education is to give full play to everyone's specialty and potential. It is in this sense that the "application-assessment system" makes it easier for applicants who are really interested in academic research, have academic research background and have academic research potential to enter the academic research field, which is undoubtedly the direction of doctoral enrollment reform.
The assessment is ability, not wealth. If it is difficult for poor disciples to take the exam, it can only show that rich children have a hard time taking the exam. Why don't you work hard?
According to this system, those who have the ability, whether Liu Han's disciples or rich children, have the opportunity to take the doctoral exam.