Deepen the Implementation of the Spirit of the National Conference on Graduate Education to Improve the Overall Quality of Graduate Education at USST

From July 15 to 16, USST held a summing-up meeting or a free discussion on the educational ideas of graduate education at USST and a 2021 working meeting of PhD supervisors, focusing on the theme of “deepening the implementation of the Spirit of the National Conference on Graduate Education to improve the overall quality of graduate education at USST. "

In his speech, Wu Jianyong, Secretary of the Party Committee of USST, firstly expressed his heartfelt thanks to the contributions made by all the postgraduate supervisors to the development of USST, pointing out that this meeting was held to further unify educational ideas, clarify concrete approaches and make vigorous efforts to implement them, so as to promote the cultivation of high-level talents to a new height and improve the overall level of the school’s postgraduate supervisory team.
In order to deepen the reform of graduate education, improve the quality of high-level talent cultivation and build a high-level doctoral supervisory team, he made the following proposals: first, we should always adhere to the mission of cultivating talents for the Party and the country, and spare no effort to cultivate outstanding, innovative talent with virtue; secondly, we should always adhere to the integration of “inheritance” and “innovation”, and realize the simultaneous resonance between disciplinary development and economic development; third, we should always stick to the combination of value-orientation and competence cultivation to build a high-level postgraduate supervisory team.
Yang Fuyi, specially invited guest, deputy dean of the Graduate School of East China Normal University, introduced the preliminary exploration work of graduate education reform at East China Normal University from various aspects, such as the current situation of postgraduate education, postgraduate enrollment, postgraduate education’s process management and curriculum reform, and emphatically shared the implementation plan of outstanding talent cultivation centered on the growth and success of postgraduates.
Vice President Liu Ping delivered a keynote speech on the topic of "Implement the spirit of national graduate education to promote high-level talent cultivation.” Yang Qiguo from the School of Energy and Power Engineering gave a special report on "Exploring Innovative Talent Cultivation Model under the New Situation;" Zhang Xuedian from the School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering gave a special report on "How to Construct a Team of High-level Teachers for Graduate Education;" Zhang Yongqing from Business School gave a special report on "How to Adjust Disciplinary Programs with the Aim at the Frontiers of Science and Technology;" Jin Jing from the School of Environment and Architecture gave a special report on "With Progressive Ideas Leading the Way and Solving Problems as the Orientation, Continuously Optimize Graduate Education System;” and Liu Baolin from the School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering gave a special report on "Push the Integration of Medicine and Industry and Set up a Cross-disciplinary Talent Cultivation Model". Zhang Zhendong, PhD supervisor of the School of Mechanical Engineering, shared his experience on "Cultivating graduate talents with moral education as the priority" and Nie Shengdong, PhD supervisor of the School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, shared with attendees his experience on "Cultivating high-quality talents in medical imaging technology and scientific research." The speakers offered their tips for postgraduate training from different perspectives.
President Ding Xiaodong pointed out in his concluding speech that the university should focus on two major goals, take problems as the orientation, and manage to think out a way to resolve the problems affecting the quality improvement of graduate education in the midst of difficulties and challenges.
He said that, first, with cultivating talents as the priority and cultivating virtue as the root, we should comprehensively conduct education from the five aspects of morality, intellect, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labour, guiding students to grow up healthily in an all-round way; second, with cultivating talents as the key and ensuring quality as the foundation, we should focus on the whole process of talent cultivation and think integrally about the differences and relevance of each collaborative unit; third, with supervisors as the base and teachers’ morality as the foundation, we should make sure that supervisors shoulder the "major responsibility" instead of "full responsibility." Supervisors should correct their own behaviors to set a good example to their students and construct an academic community of both teachers and students; fourth, we should enhance the efficiency of management, systematize our thoughts, cooperate comprehensively from the overall system and developing situation, and carry it out with a pragmatic attitude and solid style.