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¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¢ñ.History
Review
¡¡¡¡China
University of Geosciences is within the first group of universities
being authorized to establish graduate school. In the early years of
its foundation, the university set up its graduate school with the graduates
from Beijing University, Peking University, Tianjin University, and
Tangshan Railway Institute. In 1953, CUG Graduate School started its
recruitment of graduates; the number of graduates reached 147 in 1961
and 321 before the Cultural Revolation.During the Cultural Revolution,
the graduate education was suspended. It was not until 1978 was the
recruitment of masters resumed. The recruitment of doctors started from
1982.
¡¡¡¡In 1986, the Chinese Government ratified the foundation of the Graduate
School of Wuhan College of Geology.With the foundation of CUG in 1987,
the Graduate School was renamed as CUG Graduate School.After the development
of over 50 years, the university has already formed a professional graduate
education system with obvious advantages in sciences and engineering
and coordinate development in liberal arts, management, economics and
laws. Thus, CUG has become a very important base for the cultivation
of both geological and non-geological graduates. Since the resumption
of the recruitment of graduates in 1978, as many as 2000 graduates have
been conferred diplomas, including 300 doctors, about 1700 masters,
19 international students, and 100 masters of engineering. In the evaluation
of 33 national graduate schools in 1996, the discipline construction
and quality of thesis in CUG Graduate School was ranked in the top 5.
In 1999, it is also hornored with the title of ¡°National Advanced Unit
in the Management of Diplomas and Graduate Education¡±.
¡¡¡¡¢ò.Grasping the key
point: Boosting the
¡¡ discipline constrution of Graduate School
¡¡¡¡In
recent years, the Graduate School has increased the propaganda of recruitment
of graduate students and enlarged the scale of publicity. As a result,
the resources of students have greatly augmented, and the enrollment
has been increasing year by year. The current doctors, masters, masters
of engineering, international students and students attending in an
advanced studies total about 3000. Furthermore, the school is also honored
as one of the excellent examination spots in the academic year of 2000-2001.
¡¡¡¡The construction of disciplines and supervising groups, and the continuous
improvement of the running of Graduate School are the key points for
excellent achievements in graduate education. After years of construction
and development, CUG (Wuhan) already owns 5 state key disciplines, 11
key disciplines at provincial and ministerial level, 11 authorized doctoral
programs, 34 master¡¯s programs, 8 fields of engineering to recruit masters
of engineering, two granted top disciplines, and 2 post-doctoral working
stations. Moreover, non-geological graduate programs have already exceeded
the traditional geological programs, resulting in a great change in
the former monotonous discipline construction. Thanks to the application
of various measures, the university now has owned a group of highly
qualified graduate supervisors, including 9 academicians of Chinese
Academy of Sciences and academicians of foreign nationalities, 86 doctoral
supervisors. The number of professors has increased to 200 and that
of associate professors has reached to 360 in 2001.
¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¢ó.Emphasizing
quality:Graduate
¡¡¡¡Aeducation has entered
a new stage.
¡¡¡¡The
quality of graduate cultivation is a lifeline for graduate education.
The university has raised the educational principle regarding the improvement
of quality as its center. It has also carried out a series of reforms
to actualize this principle. For example, the Graduate School has revised
the graduate cultivation schemes for five times; it has also endeavored
to optimize the course system and emphasize the quality of course-teaching;
it practices a supervisor-system, and adheres to the filtration of graduates
at metaphase, encouraging excellent graduates to graduate ahead of schedule
or further pursue the Docotor¡¯s Degree; the school also carries out
a successive way of combining master¡¯s studies and doctor¡¯s studies
together, thus making talents showing themselves, etc. The rapid progress
of science and technology in the 21st century, the fierce international
competition, and the new situation in the market economy have raised
high demands for senior talents. In order to adapt to the demands, the
university has greatly strengthened the graduate education in science
and technology. It has taken the lead in putting forward an innovative
new way of implementing creative education to doctors and training highly
qualified senior talents with creativities. Many achievements, such
as ¡°Research and Practice on the Graduate Cultivation Mode and the Course
System under New Circumstances¡±, ¡°Research on the Demands, Knowledge
Construction, and Cultivation Mode of Cross-century Geological Masters
and Doctors¡±, and ¡°Research on the Index System of the Evaluation of
Dissertation¡±, etc, have won prizes at provincial and ministerial level.
¡¡¡¡Dissertation is the materialzation of the graduates¡¯ ability in absorbing
knowledge, exerting creativities, improving comprehensive makings, and
perfecting academic attainments. In order to continuously boost the
graduates¡¯ ability in composing dissertations, Graduate School gives
prominence to the training of creative consciousness and innovative
capabilities, and runs it in the whole process of graduate education
as well. The school adopts the credit system, requiring graduate students
to publish a certain number of academic theses concerning their respective
research branches before the presentation of dissertation. It has also
changed the scholarship of the third academic year into awards for the
publication of academic theses, giving students a certain amount of
award for the publication of each thesis. A system requiring the proposal
for dissertation, and the implementation of submitting graduation papers
for the evaluation of anomynous and foreign experts have been greatly
emphasized. The schools also ask graduates to present their dissertation
in English. As a result, the number of published academic theses is
remarkably increased, and the quality of dissertations has also been
continuously improving. For example, the doctoral dissertations of Li
Xinzhong and Zhang Kexin have respectively won the national award for
¡°100 Excellent Doctoral Dissertations¡± in 1999 and 2002; in addition,
other 16 doctoral dissertations have won similar awards at provincial
level.
¡¡¡¡In the academic year of 2001 to 2002, 52 theses written by graduates
in the school have entered SCI,EI and ISTP;20 have been published in
overseas journals and magazines and 95 were submitted to some international
conferences for academic exchanges. Over 1894 theses have been published
nationally and 188 were submitted to some national academic conferences
as well.
¡¡¡¡Graduate School attaches great importance to the cultivation of comprehensive
makings of graduate students, and strengthens the education of Marxism
theory, moralities and patriotism. It has encouraged students to participate
in various kinds of activities such as donations, social practices,
and fighting against bloods etc. A great number of graduates have won
great honors and awards at national or provincial and ministerial levels.
¡¡¡¡The graduates trained by CUG Graduate School have exerted important
roles in the development of science and technology and the construction
of national economy. Since 1978, several have won certificate for ¡°Chinese
Doctors with Outstanding Contributions¡± issued by the diploma-conferring
committee of the State Council, and hornors such as¡°May First¡±Labor
Medals, Hou Dengfeng Prize, and so on. Some of them have become young
and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, post-doctoral
supervisors, pioneers in discipline construction, and leaders in party
or governmental organs.
¡¡¡¡After the development of over fifty years, the structure of graduate
disciplines and majors is becoming more and more rational, the conditions
are gradually being improved, and the scale of running of the school
is enlarging. The school has greatly advanced its education quality,
and realized the harmonious development of scales, structure, quality
and benefits. In the new century, with the integrated progress of the
university as a whole, we strongly believe that the graduate education
of our university will keep pace with the times and continuously bring
about entirely new prospects for its own development.
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