Source: Xinhua News Agency
Taiwan Zhongzhou University of Science and Technology
Xinhua News Agency, Taipei, December 3 Taiwan Master of Engineering Technology Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Zhongzhou University of Science and Technology, some of thesis reported are inconsistent with the major, and topics such as numerology, night markets, and teachers' sense of humor teaching have appeared. The education authorities of the Taiwan authorities invited scholars and experts to inspect and determine that they were indeed deviating from their professional fields. After submitting a consultation meeting for discussion a few days ago, they decided that the institute would stop recruiting from the 2020 academic year.
This is the first case that a Taiwanese university research institute was suspended because of its dissertation title that did not match the teaching major.
You Ronghui, chairman of the Taiwan Private School Trade Union, recently revealed that the Master of Engineering Technology of Zhongzhou University of Science and Technology Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, has more than 100 graduation thesis for 167 masters after 2013. The topics of the 167 master's thesis have nothing to do with engineering technology, but are related to numerology, night markets, fire fighting or leisure. Yang Yuhui, an official of the education department of
, told the media that after scholars and experts examined the relevant papers of Zhongzhou University of Science and Technology, they found that a high proportion did not meet the teaching objectives and core abilities. The school also admitted that it was unable to fulfill its responsibilities for the quality control of the papers, so it decided to stop the quota of 40 students in the 2020 academic year. This case brings vigilance to all schools, and professors must be responsible for checking students' papers.
Zhongzhou University of Science and Technology emphasized that it would not shirk responsibility. President Huang Silun, Vice President Chai Yunqing, former director of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering was transferred from his current position due to poor supervision. In the future, we will also adjust the project development process of all institutes to rebuild a new teaching system to ensure that the paper will no longer deviate from the major you studied.
Some Taiwanese scholars believe that this incident highlights the abolition of the teaching quality supervision mechanism of the education authorities and has not played a role at all. In an interview, Lai Dingming, acting president of Oriental Design University, said that Taiwan faces serious "less birth rate". In order to survive, many private schools have the concept of "just have students". The school should try to cooperate with what students want to write papers. It is really sad that Taiwan’s higher education has developed into this way.
You Ronghui told the media that Taiwan's private school unions randomly checked doctoral and master's thesis from many universities, similar to Zhongzhou University of Science and Technology's thesis deviates from the teaching objectives of the department, or the topic of the graduation thesis does not match the professional field of the instructor. These universities do not hesitate to "leave money" in order to survive, which may cause Taiwanese higher education to face "pheasant universityization" and schools become schools that sell diplomas. Taiwan’s private school trade union requires the education authorities to conduct further census on various schools, and at the same time require all schools to implement teaching quality supervision mechanisms and propose punishment measures for guiding professors to curb this unhealthy trend. (Reporter Cha Wenye Wu Jihai)
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