“学达性天”与“实事求是”：高等教育质量观的回归

高等教育质量问题是一个永恒的话题。《中国教育现代化2035》提出,发展中国特色世界先进水平的优质教育,要完善教育质量标准体系,制定覆盖全学段、体现世界先进水平、符合不同层次类型教育特点的教育质量标准,明确学生发展核心素养要求;要制定紧跟时代发展的多样化高等教育人才培养质量标准。

The quality and evaluation of higher education is an eternal topic. In general, the evaluation of higher education quality includes five elements: evaluation guiding ideology, evaluation index system, evaluation procedure, evaluation subject and evaluation results. At present, the evaluation index system of higher education quality in China is not scientific enough. Especially, the evaluation of undergraduate teaching is not guided by the fundamental values for improving the quality of personnel training. Therefore, the new index system still lacks the scheme of indicators that are necessary to encourage the innovative and quality personnel training. The quality of higher education is facing five trends of development: from adaptation to guidance, from techniques to humanity, from intelligence to wisdom, from knowledge to thinking, and from process to result. A deep understanding of these trends and related problems is of great significance for improving the quality of higher education and promoting the development of higher education. From the perspective of quality management of higher education, "management" can be divided into three levels: the first level is "management", with the effect pointing to control; the second level is "reason", with the effect pointing to rationalization; and the third level is "security", with the effect pointing to stability. The major shortcomings of higher education lie in its alienation from "safety", lack of "reason" and excessive focus on "management", which marks higher education far from quality construction. Facing the new requirements of higher education development in the new era such as the supplier of public goods in higher education, we need to rethink the past and accommodate the shortcomings to construct a most suitable quality construction and evaluation system for higher education that guides and optimizes the demand, adheres to the spiritual quality, and provides the society with more effective and more suitable higher education supply. At present, in the construction of higher education quality quality, "projects" are regarded as an important means to improve the quality of higher education, which have been widely used and have a trend of gradual expansion. However, the "projects" may not improve and represent the quality of higher education, but it may suspend, beautify, or even distort the quality of higher education. The phenomenon of "project-oriented quality of higher education" requires vigilant attention. Higher education in the new era should take the cultivation of people’s "self-consciousness" as its fundamental orientation, and seek joint efforts to form the quality effect of higher education in all aspects such as discipline construction, specialty construction, curriculum construction and teaching reforms. In order to make correct view of quality higher education, we must not forget our original intentions and determinations to the local characteristics of Chinese higher education. In this respect, Yuelu Academy’s profound philosophy of "learning to achieve nature" and "seeking truth from facts", and Jinling College’s motto of four-dimensional talent quality standard "sincerity, reality, diligence and benevolence" may provide us with useful wisdom and practical path for further thinking about the quality standards and quality construction of higher education. The teaching quality of ideological and political courses in higher education is related to the implementation of fundamental tasks to build morality and cultivate people. We should conduct in-depth investigations and research, adopt targeted strategies and measures, and strive to improve the teaching quality of ideological and political courses.