Research on the Transformation and Development of Universities under the Combination of Science and Education and the Combination of Production and Education

The research on the transformation and development of colleges and universities in China involves the connotation,causes,target orientation,content and conditions,problems encountered in the transformation and development.Therefore,the author studies the transformation and development of Universities under the integration of education,industry and education.The research shows that the development of integration of general vocational education is the basic feature of Applied Undergraduate education,the development of integration of industry and education is the basic way of Applied Undergraduate education,and the development of integration of science and education is the basic law of Applied Undergraduate education.Colleges and universities must grasp the transformational development path of integration of science and education,integration of production and education,and clarify the orientation of running schools for the local economic development and the development of disciplines to connect regional industries.

The Transformation of China’s Key Science and Technology Universities in the Move to Mass Higher Education

China’s key science and technology universities are modelled on the FrenchÉcole Polytechnique.As such,they are utilitarian institutions,rooted in the concept of cultivating manpower for society’s economic progress,and tending to ignore the development of the individual.As China’s elite higher education system took in a rapidly increasing number of students in the recent massification process,China’s key science and technology universities underwent reform to become more comprehensive in curricular offerings and more research-oriented in function.The authors have uncovered an interesting phenomenon:Despite repeated discussion in academic circles,this transformation was never actually a conscious strategic choice for universities.Only when the Chinese government launched a program of higher education“massification”did universities develop their own unique reform strategies in a move to become more comprehensive and more research oriented.The authors have adopted a multi-stream analysis framework to describe and analyze three case study universities:University of Science and Technology of China(USTC),Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST),and Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University(NWAFU).It was found that Chinese universities already have quite a high level of autonomy,but that the government still has the power to make strategic decisions.Each university’s decision-making mechanism has been an independent process within the constraints of the political economic structure over this period,and policy-making has combined top-down and bottom-up processes.