High Quality Development of Comprehensive University Medical Education In China: Problems And Path In The New Era

Background: In the new era, the situation of medical education in China has undergone significant and profound changes. Medical universities not only carry the historical mission of providing multidisciplinary talent support for the modernization of education, but also are endowed with the tasks and requirements of holding high quality medical education and promoting the construction of Health China. Objective To state the theory of medical education in the new era, this paper analyzes the problems existing in medical education of China's comprehensive universities, and gives the countermeasures and ideas of medical education development. Method: By using literature research, illustrating with examples, conclusion and reasoning methods to analyze and illustrate.Result: This paper interprets the connotation of high-quality development of medical education in the new era, thinks about the current situation features of domestic medical education such as the multilateral exploration of management mode of comprehensive university medical education, lists the main problems in medical education, and discusses the ideas and countermeasures to solve these problems in the future.Conclusion: The reform and development of medical education need to further improve the top-level design, and obtain the understanding and support from stakeholders. The comprehensive university should consider putting medical personnel training in the vision of Health China construction. Under the guidance of the national macro policy of holding high-level undergraduate education, it is imperative to persist in problem-oriented principle and make efforts to reform, using information technology to promote the sharing of educational resources among schools and form a synergy in medical education.

Higher education leadership responses applied in two South African comprehensive universities during the COVID-19 pandemic: A critical discourse analysis

Background: This article explored the leadership responses that were used by two comprehensive universities in South Africa (Nelson Mandela University and University of Johannesburg) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in continuing with the rolling out of their teaching and learning programmes safely and digitally under disruptive conditions.Aim: Whilst universities in the developing world such as South Africa were expected to face challenges during the pandemic, this article showed that the leadership executives and general staff in two of its large universities, instead, crafted equitable and flexible improvisations to overcome the social challenges that could have posed a threat to their academic project.Setting: The selection of these two specific universities provided a unique opportunity to engage with comprehensive, massified and post-merger former Technikon-university institutions that mainly cater for working-class students.Methods: The social justice theory was utilised to frame the study, whilst critical narrative analysis was the methodology.Results: This research reveals that South African comprehensive universities possess capacity to adapt and innovate in the middle of an institutional crisis using their flexible systems and agile personnel to drive the academy under such circumstances. The study also reveals that the process of social justice is full of contradictions. As the universities created equitable measures to assist underprivileged students, these measures also generated injustices for others.Conclusion: This generated admirable and productive systematic traits to observe about some of our universities, as the South African higher education sector continued to engage with difficult conversations such as transformation.

EXPLORATION ON THE TEACHING INNOVATION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY THINKING OF APPRECIATION OF PIANO ART

Appreciation of piano art, as a public elective and general educational course for all undergraduates in comprehensive universities, aims to enhance all-round appreciation level for students, help them build confidence and team spirit, and keep the forever passion for music, art and life as well. In my teaching for students who come from different colleges with different majors, I hope that I can interpret piano, human and passion through the knowledge and the way of thinking which they got from their professional learning. Moreover, I hope this course is able to provide them with some inspiration. This article is going to explore the reform on interdisciplinary thinking during the teaching of Appreciation of piano art, in terms of piano and architecture, piano and machinery, and piano and language.

Teaching and Research

Despite many attempts, there is little agreement of what counts for effective teaching and research. The different styles of four great teachers are examined, compared, and contrasted. Some basic elements, hard to quantify, are nonetheless identified. Realistic expectations for faculty research are discussed, the relationship between the quality of teaching and research is explained, and the importance that faith and reason play in the types of research Catholic universities should support is discussed. Finally, different forms of scholarship and the different expectations for scholarly production as research universities, comprehensive universities, and liberal arts colleges are examined, concluding that rigor can be defined in a variety of ways, not just by the number of articles published in refereed journals.

Designing a talent-based model for recruiting faculty members at Iranian regional comprehensive universities

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to design a talent-based model for recruiting faculty members at regional comprehensive universities in Iran.Design/methodology/approachTo achieve the purpose, grounded theory approach was used. The research population consisted of all experts in the field of higher education in Iran. Nineteen experts were selected through purposeful sampling by Snowball method and based on theoretical saturation. To collect the data, a semi-structured interview was used and for the data analysis, a thematic analysis technique was applied.FindingsThe findings showed that the model for recruiting the faculty members in Iranian regional universities included four components: Personal Characteristics, Professional Capabilities, Behavioral Capabilities and Cognitive Capabilities.Practical implicationsThis research identified the recruiting components and its results can be used to recruit capable faculty members purposefully and in accordance with the Iranian academic strategic plan. The method of this study can be applied in other applied fields as well.Originality/valueThis study adds to the authors' knowledge about recruiting of the faculty members and also the factors that can be helpful in a talent-based selection. Therefore, in order to have capable faculty members, universities should make an effort to identify relevant components and design a comprehensive model to recruit more capable faculty members.

Nemzetközi hallgatói mobilitás a magyar felsőoktatásban

The study aims to review the processes of international student mobility towards Hungary, with particular attention to the time-series analysis of the number of international students studying in Hungary, the trends emerging from the data and the changes regarding the sending countries as well as their hypothetical causes in the period between 2001 and 2019. The study is based on the latest available statistical data for 2019/2020, which we used to analyse the distribution of international students by research field, level of training and the geographical distribution of the host universities in Hungary. Following the international trends, a significant increase can also be observed within Hungary, in the number of students coming from the East, more exactly from Asian countries including China, Iran, and Turkey. Many students from the neighbouring countries also choose Hungary as their place of study for historical and ethnic reasons. International students studying in Hungary participate in a remarkably high proportion (approximately 30%) in medical and healthcare degree programs. However, with the diversification of programs available in foreign languages the comprehensive universities in the countryside have come to the foreground and now they host the largest number of international students.