As the thesis scandal spreads across the island, He Lixing, the advisor of DPP Taoyuan mayoral candidate Lin Zhijian, has disappeared since issuing a statement. Looking back, He Lixing has supervised 473 master's and doctoral students over the past 30 years, an average of about 16 students per year. He has supervised the completion of nearly 30 papers in one year at most, and his output is astonishing. School officials said that He was enthusiastic in giving guidance and had good social connections, so he was naturally popular with students. Hong Mengkai, a "legislator" of the Chinese Kuomintang, questioned that Lin Zhijian's thesis advisor He Lixing was only an associate professor, but he was able to supervise 473 master's and doctoral students. Such a number can be called a "degree mass merchandiser". Can it really have academic quality?
Lin Zhijian
Taiwan The "Ministry of Education" stated that the fields and professional characteristics of each department are different, and the guidance work for master's and doctoral dissertations is also different. The number of papers that university professors guide students should take into account both academic requirements and the quality of guidance; Schools should also actively strengthen thesis quality assurance and supervisory professor responsibility mechanisms to maintain academic and professional development.
 Query " Taiwan PhD and Master's Thesis Knowledge Added System ". He Lixing served as a supervisor for a total of 473 projects. The earliest thesis he supervised was in 1992. In the first six years, the number of students he supervised was in single digits. From 2011 to 2018, it exploded. There are almost 30 people every year. He Lixing has many talents all over the world. In addition to "outstanding alumnus" Lin Zhijian, Hsinchu County Magistrate Yang Wenke, County Secretary Chen Jiyuan, Confidential Secretary Chi Yanyun, and former Zhushi City Councilor Zheng Guiyuan were also mentored by He.
 However, Wang Xiangyu, a professor at the Department of Communication at the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, said that in recent years, education policies have guided schools to engage in industry-government-academic cooperation. Many professors rely on the creation of interpersonal connections to have endless cases, which has become a special cooperation model in the political and academic circles. ; Usually one teacher supervises graduate students, and the upper limit is 3 to 5 people per year. The previous "Ministers of Science and Technology" are all internationally renowned scholars, such as Zhang Shanzheng supervised 47 people, Xu Juemin 26 people, Yang Hongdun 68 people, and Chen Liangji 191 people. There are 104 people including Wu Zhengzhong, "together there are not as many as He Lixing alone." It may be difficult to maintain a certain academic quality.
Liao Yiming, a professor at the Department of Political Science and Law at Kaohsiung University, said that behind the phenomenon of thesis school, the enrollment of working students has brought abundant political and business resources to schools and scholars, forming a phenomenon of "mutual support between industry, government and academia". Lai Xiangwei, a professor at the Department of Broadcasting and Television at National Taiwan University of Fine Arts, said that an associate professor supervised 473 graduate students. When he talked with professors from National Taiwan University and National Chengchi University, he felt inferior. He didn't know how to quality control and ?
Xie Hongnian, vice president of Taiwan's Chung Hwa University, said that the number of master's and doctoral students mentored by professors is stipulated by each department, and the upper limit varies. He teaches in the Department of Architecture and can mentor no more than two people in a year. He Lixing retired last year. The Department of Science and Technology Management where he originally taught has a special on-the-job class. Due to the large number of students, the number of tutoring students admitted each year is of course relatively large. The same is true for other public universities that offer master's degree courses, and it takes only one year to tutor students. Maybe double digits. (Xue Yang/Editor)
