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Edited by Dream Chaser
●—≺ Preface ≻—●
1,800 doctoral students of the same academic ability at China Medical University were persuaded to drop out, what is this called?
The news sparked heated discussions on the Internet, making people question the school's approach, and some students have even completed their dissertations and defenses, but even then they can't escape the fate of graduating!
According to the students, the decision was made by the school to notify them a week before graduation, catching them off guard.
Why can't PhD students graduate? What's the inside story?
●—≺ Persuaded to quit when graduation is approaching? ≻—●
It's the intersection of phoenix flowers again, and the graduation season is approaching, how many families are happy and how worried?
Just recently, there was another earth-shattering thunderstorm in the education circles, and a letter for help was circulated on the Internet about "the doctoral students of China Medical University with the same academic ability were persuaded to retire after graduation", which quickly attracted the attention and heated discussions of the whole network.
The number of doctoral students involved in this turmoil is not as simple as one or twenty, you must know that there were nearly 1,800 students in the same batch at that time.
What went wrong? Although these doctoral students with equivalent qualifications are engaged in medical work and in-depth study of the learning tasks of doctoral students during their studies, almost none of them are left behind.
I originally expected to get the degree certificate in the near future, but unexpectedly, some students' papers passed the preliminary review and passed the rigorous defense link, but the result was that they could not get the degree certificate!
The degree certificate is the only proof of the major, and without it as a stepping stone, it is difficult to convince the medical community of your professional ability.
You say that you are a professional in a certain medical field, and who will believe you without a diploma?
Isn't the school more aware of the importance of a degree certificate than its students? What are the reasons for such a conclusion?
According to people familiar with the matter, the university informed the doctoral students graduating this year in the form of an announcement on June 21 that in addition to completing the regular graduation defense tasks, they also need to be able to create!
One is to publish high-level professional articles in well-known domestic journals, and the other is to have at least one provincial or above "Science and Technology Progress Award", and only by meeting these two conditions at the same time can you have the qualification to obtain a degree certificate.
On the other hand, if you do not meet the above two conditions, you will need to sign an application with the university for "voluntary renunciation of degree qualifications".
At that time, the university will refund the fees associated with the original application for a degree, but the student must also give up the relevant claims to fight for their rights!
You must know that there is only one week left before graduation, and in just a few days, even if a doctoral student has three heads and six arms, it is difficult to meet this standard.
Especially the latter, what is the concept of "scientific and technological progress award at or above the provincial level"?
You must know that there are only 120 second-class provincial science and technology progress awards, and the key is that these 120 items involve almost all walks of life, and the number of places in the medical industry is almost few.
The key to this award is that you can't do it alone, but you need a whole team to work together.
Everyone is a working doctoral student, how easy is it to complete an orderly transfer?
In the case of tight time and heavy tasks, even the professional tutors of the school may not be able to complete the tasks, how can students quickly win them?
Obviously, there is no possibility of the latter being realized, but the school did not take this issue into account and insisted on acting in accordance with the rules and regulations.
When I first enrolled students, I didn't see this in the admissions brochure, why did I suddenly raise the graduation threshold when it was time to graduate, as a higher education institution in the medical field, why did I make such an incredible decision?
As the incident of doctors with equivalent degrees being persuaded to drop out of school continues to ferment and escalate, will China Medical University pay for the decision it made in the first place? What will be the explanation of the relevant education authorities?
●—≺ School: Is there a misunderstanding of the educational documents? ≻—●
Originally, the execution of the school was a big surprise, who knew that the school could not withstand the pressure of public opinion, and the explanation in the face of media interviews was even more shocking!
The staff of the admissions office of the university even claimed that when the school recruited doctoral students with the same academic ability, there was a "deviation" in the understanding of the relevant documents issued by the education department.
It was not until March this year that the education department issued a new document, and since the new document was issued, the school had to carry out rapid rectification in accordance with the spirit conveyed by the new document, so the previous old document lost its due timeliness.
What kind of wordplay is this? The fluttering sentence of "misunderstanding deviation" makes how many students who study hard pay the price of not being able to get a degree certificate?
Shouldn't the relevant education authorities come forward and give a reasonable explanation? Shouldn't the publication of an educational document be forward-looking, avoiding all possible problems?
●—≺ Education Department: Do things according to regulations? ≻—●
A few days later, the Liaoning Provincial Department of Education gave a positive response to the incident of the equivalent doctoral degree of China Medical University!
The official claim that the authenticity of the content on the Internet needs to be tested, especially in terms of the scale of the people involved, which is not as exaggerated as the 1,800 people.
The staff of the provincial education department also added that the state has clear regulations on applying for doctoral students with the same academic qualifications, and the relevant departments and staff also act in accordance with the provisions.
At present, China Medical University attaches great importance to this incident, and has set up a work investigation team to interpret the policy more professionally on the relevant personnel.
●—≺ Where do the two hard conditions come from? ≻—●
There is no doubt that "policy" became the fuse of this incident!
It can be seen from the "Regulations of China Medical University in 2021 for Accepting In-service Personnel to Apply for Doctoral Academic Degrees with the Same Academic Ability as Graduate Students" that there is no mention of the need to win provincial scientific and technological progress awards and publish high-quality articles.
In the column of degree award, it is written in black and white: "The training program and degree awarding conditions of doctoral personnel with the same academic qualifications are the same as those of doctoral students".
Even the newly released "China Medical University 2024 Unified Examination Doctoral Enrollment Regulations" does not have these two mandatory requirements, and you only need to complete the educational task within the specified time to successfully graduate!
Until the 1998 promulgation of the "Regulations of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council on Conferring Master's and Doctoral Degrees to Personnel with the Equivalent Academic Qualifications of Graduate Students", Article 9 "Qualification Examination" does have relevant expressions about high-level articles and the achievements of staff at or above the provincial level.
●—≺ Conclusion ≻—●
Why should students pay for the consequences of illegal enrollment in the first place?
These doctoral students are still waiting for their degree certificates to gain a firm foothold in their positions, and if they knew that this was the kind of enrollment condition at the beginning, how many of them would be willing to apply for the examination?
Bibliography:
Phoenix.com: On June 26, 2024, "Many doctoral students at China Medical University said they couldn't get a degree: six years of hard work in vain"
Yu Video: On June 26, 2024, "A number of doctors with the same academic ability from China Medical University are about to graduate and are persuaded to quit? Students: Difficult to meet the requirements 》
Huanqiu.com: On June 27, 2024, "A number of doctors with equivalent academic ability from China Medical University were persuaded to quit? Students: The graduation threshold has been raised, and it is difficult to meet it》
The Paper: On June 27, 2024, "China Medical University's misunderstanding of policies has caused dozens of doctors with the same academic ability to fail to graduate? Intervention of the Provincial Department of Education》