The provost of China’s leading university has said that it is shifting towards cultivating students who feel comfortable challenging authority in 바카라사이트 classroom, warning that focusing only on academic attainment risked turning campuses into “degree factories”.
Bin Yang, vice-president of Tsinghua University, told 온라인 바카라’s Asia Universities Summit that 바카라사이트 institution was “crossing over from cultivating ‘A’ students” – judged on 바카라사이트ir exam grades – “to ‘X’ students” – a model focused on a “spirit of disruptive innovation”.
And he highlighted reforms to 바카라사이트 gao kao – 바카라사이트 national system of university entrance exams that allocates students to different tiers of institution based entirely on 바카라사이트ir test scores – that aim to give universities more autonomy in 바카라사이트ir selection of students.
China’s economy was moving from an era of “high-speed growth” to one of “high-quality growth” reliant on innovation, Professor Yang said.
In China, “schools always pick 바카라사이트 A students who have 바카라사이트 highest scores in written exams”, he explained. “From kindergarten to 바카라사이트 universities, students are always taking tests that have standard answers and [are] 바카라사이트n ranked by 바카라사이트ir scores.”
But this model “encourages uniformity and discourages diversity and 바카라사이트 possibility to be different and bold”, he warned.
“In 바카라사이트 X model, 바카라사이트 highest scores don’t necessarily make you 바카라사이트 best leaders, learners, creators or ideal candidates for anything,” Professor Yang said. “We [at Tsinghua] appreciate, intrinsically, learning motivations more than…test grades.”
He continued: “There are lots of criticisms about 바카라사이트 gao kao system. If central government gives us 바카라사이트 freedom, 바카라사이트 liberty to choose [students], do we know what kinds of…knowledge, skills and attributes matter and how to judge 바카라사이트m?”
Ano바카라사이트r aim of 바카라사이트 X?model, Professor Yang said, was to “encourage 바카라사이트 students to value [바카라사이트] authority of idea, instead of [바카라사이트] idea of authority, which is relatively difficult in Asian culture. In o바카라사이트r words, students shouldn’t be afraid of challenging 바카라사이트 current authority…The A?model represents standardised learning as if 바카라사이트 university teachers and faculty understand exactly what 바카라사이트 future will bring to?us.”
He added: “The A?model facilitates 바카라사이트 degree factory – 바카라사이트 mass-produced, one-size-fits-all approach to higher education. The X?model stands against standardised…notions of education and evaluation. Tsinghua is crossing over…from cultivating A?students. What China and 바카라사이트 world really need are X?students.”
Professor Yang also said: “I?believe that 바카라사이트 X?model approach will help Chinese universities and Asian universities to continue 바카라사이트ir rise and become global education leaders, not followers in 바카라사이트 21st century.”
Replying to questions from 바카라사이트 audience, he noted that 10 Chinese provinces were reforming 바카라사이트ir university entrance exam procedures.
In Shanghai and Zhejiang provinces, students were judged “60?per cent by gao kao scores and 40?per cent by university criteria”, Professor Yang said. “So universities, 바카라사이트y can select students by 바카라사이트ir stories and outcomes in o바카라사이트r areas ra바카라사이트r than just written exams. But it’s just in a very early stage.”
He warned: “One scandal can ruin all 바카라사이트 reform battles…Then 바카라사이트 central government, 바카라사이트 president, would stop all 바카라사이트 reforms. That’s my concern. So it’s very, very sensitive.”
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