西部高等教育高质量发展(笔谈)

High-quality Development of Western Higher Education(Written Talk)

西部高等教育的全面振兴关乎高等教育现代化和教育强国的实现,在我国推进共同富裕的全局中具有特殊而重要的地位。“对口支援西部地区高等学校计划”“中西部高校基础能力建设工程”“中西部高校综合实力提升工程”等计划和工程的实施,在促进西部高校改善办学条件、加强学科建设和提高教育质量等方面发挥了积极的作用,但与东部地区相比,西部高等教育的相对发展水平仍然不高,在经费投入、人才资源、科技创新资源等方面与东部相比仍有较大差距,高质量发展遭遇“肠梗阻”。西部高等教育的高质量发展需要跳出就教育论教育的理论局限、跳出行政区划为本的视野局限、跳出单纯要求中央政策和发达地区支持的思想局限、跳出单纯借鉴学习和模仿发达地区高等教育的思维局限。要把西部高等教育置于国家发展的总体格局中,对西部高等教育的发展问题实施“靶向治疗”,尝试建立西部高等教育改革创新国家级试验区,在最大限度激发西部高等教育发展内驱力的同时化解东部高校人才滞胀危机,为高等教育的后发式发展模式提供改革范例。

The overall revitalization of higher education in the west is related to the modernization of higher education and the realization of a powerful educational country.It has a special and important position in promoting common prosperity in China.The implementation of such plans and projects as“Counterpart Support Plan for Colleges and Universities in the Western Region”,“National Basic Ability Construction Project of Western and Central China”,and“the Comprehensive Strength Enhancement Project of Colleges and Universities in the Central and Western China”has played a positive role in promoting colleges and universities in the western region to improve the conditions for running schools,strengthening discipline construction,and improving the quality of education.However,compared with the eastern region,the relative development level of higher education in the western region is still at a disadvantage.There is still a big gap in the human resources,scientific and technological innovation resources compared with the eastern region,and the high-quality development in the west suffers from“intestinal obstruction”.The high-quality development of higher education in the west needs to jump out of the theoretical limitations of education theory,the vision limitations based on administrative divisions,the ideological limitations that simply require the support of central policies and developed regions,and the thinking limitations that simply learn from and imitate the higher education in developed regions.The western higher education should be put in the overall pattern of national development,implementing“targeted treatment”for the development of western higher education,attempting to establish a national experimental area for the reform and innovation of western higher education,stimulating the internal driving force of western higher education development to the maximum extent,and solving the talent stagflation crisis in eastern universities,so as to provide a reform example for the post development model of higher education.