中外合作办学项目面临的问题及其对策

Problems in Sino-Foreign Cooperative Educational Projects and Countermeasures

湖南省各高校10多年中外合作办学项目的办学历程已积累了丰富的办学经验,也形成各自的办学特色.随着中国高等教育形势的发展和留学市场的变化,中外合作办学项目面临一些影响其可持续发展的问题.这些问题既涉及外部因素,如高考生源减少、国内高校录取率逐年提高、低龄化出国不断升温等,也涉及到项目自身的一些缺陷,如国外合作院校层次和录取的生源起点偏低、引进国外合作院校优质课程较少、用英文或双语教授专业课程偏少、英语课程偏重于考试培训等.面对这些问题,一方面要完善办学项目的内涵使其可持续性,如采用英文或双语专业课程教学,英语着重培养学生交际能力等;另一方面要拓展办学项目的外延使其形成互补性,如增加交流生与交换生项目,创造条件与国外知名高校建立合作办学机构落地湖南省等.

In the past more than 10 years, unique styles of education have been formed and much experience has been accumulated in the Sino-foreign cooperative education projects conducted in the universities or colleges in Hunan province. However, with the development of higher education and the change of study abroad market, there are some problems affecting sustainable development of the projects, including the external and internal factors. The external factors include the decreasing number of college entrance exam candidates, the increasing college entrance rate of the country over the years and the more and more younger-age people going abroad and so on. The internal factors include the lower levels of foreign partners, the inferior quality of the admitted students, the less high quality courses from the foreign partners,the less specialized courses taught in English or bilingual and too much attention to exams in English language. Thus,on the one hand, it is necessary to make the projects fit the new situation, such as offering more specialized courses taught in English or bilingual and paying more attention to students＇ communication abilities. On the other hand, it is necessary to expand the projects for exchange students, and establish cooperative education institutions with the famous foreign universities in Hunan Province.