Cover comment ｜ College discipline majors are invalidated, there must be trend prediction rather than simply follow numbers

Jiang Yan

Recently, a notice on the reform of colleges and universities has caused widespread discussion. Anhui Provincial People's Government's Notice on Printing and Distributing the Implementation Plan of the Innovation and Development of the Disciplinary Structure Reform Service Industry (2022-2025) (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"). The notice states that it is necessary to control the scale of disciplinary enrollment scale with insufficient social needs and low implementation rate of employment, and a professional suspension of enrollment with a professional enrollment in three consecutive years. The above practice is accused of setting up the discipline and majors at the employment rate. (China News Agency)

Optimizing the professional structure of colleges and universities, in fact, there have been "red and yellow cards" professional system, and there are also a series of supporting early warning and exit processes. On the whole, this framework is effective. However, it is worth noting that when the local "implementation measures" are formulated, it is quite up. For example, in the past, the mainstream criteria were "a professional point with a professional point with a graduate and dendial implementation rate of less than 50%in a row, and given red card warnings and order it to stop recruitment." Stop tricks below 60%"-This is" self -strict requirements ".

The "minimum requirements" of professional employment rates are getting higher and higher, which is inevitable that tolerance and patience are less and less. This change has once again been pushed to the cusp of public opinion. From the perspective of function, education is for employment, reducing "low employment majors", and is righteous. However, the complexity of the problem is that the market demand for the market is not static but dynamically adjusted. If the professional setting of colleges and universities is too tight to the market employment and "feedback" is too sensitive, it may be easy to fall into some kind of unreasonable state of "chasing the rise and fall".

The market is periodic, which is directly reflected in employment demand. In addition, with the changes in industrial structure and policy rules, many professional markets are ups and downs. Many popular majors in the past few years have revealed fatigue in recent years. Some of the previous "yellow card majors" have undergone a background in recent years. So, where is the border between the two in maintaining the running for running school and "implementing employment orientation"? How to achieve a delicate balance?

Obviously, the more demanding the "minimum employment rate" of the discipline majors, the better the requirements for its "minimum employment rate". It is important to see the essence through numbers, understand the real reason for a certain "low employment rate" in a professional, and predict its future prospects. On this basis, it is impossible to take some "cross -cyclical adjustment" actions. A professional stop is not stopped, and it also involves the loss of teachers' resettlement and the difficulty of the accumulation of discipline resources.

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