Recently, Henan University of Economics and Law issued the "Notice on the Specific Arrangements for the Transfer of Teachers in Teaching Units", which formulated the "Implementation Plan for the Transfer of Teachers in Teaching Units of Henan University of Economics and Law" in accordance with the "Internal Institutional Setup of Henan University of Economics and Law" (School Dang Wen [2024] No. 25) and the requirements for the undergraduate majors of the school's departments and colleges, combined with the actual development of the school.
The scope of transfer is the full-time teachers in the original teaching unit. This transfer work mainly solves the problem of teacher ownership, first of all, a unified transfer, and then local optimization and adjustment according to the scale of students and professional matching. The attribution of personnel who undertake teaching tasks in non-teaching units and those who apply to be transferred to teaching posts will be studied separately and will not be included in the scope of this transfer.
The notice also mentions that the transfer should ensure that the teacher's professional background and the courses taught are related to the transfer college, while taking into account the teacher's teaching ability, scientific research achievements and personal wishes. Encourage and support teachers to move to emerging disciplines, interdisciplinary disciplines and key areas of school development, and promote personal professional growth in line with the school's development goals......
From the perspective of the restructuring and personnel transfer of the university, among the 26 colleges, 8 are independent, 7 are retained, 6 are spun off (need to be transferred to the newly established college), 3 are reorganized (personnel), and 2 are reorganized (the School of Public Administration and the School of Social Affairs need to be merged into the new college). Among them, there are more than 10 colleges such as the School of International Economics and Trade, and teachers can be transferred in and out. The Yellow River Business School does not accept transfers, and the original teachers need to be transferred out. In addition, there are 4 institutions such as the Quality Education Center that are involved in functional adjustments, and none of them accept transfers, except for the Quality Education Center, which will retain psychology teachers and other teachers who need to be transferred out, the original teachers of the remaining 3 centers need to be transferred out.
Institutional adjustment, teacher transfer!
At present, a number of colleges and universities have carried out institutional adjustments, and the adjustment of faculties and administrative departments has been involved. The purpose of the adjustment of colleges and universities is to optimize the layout of disciplines and the allocation of resources, promote the interdisciplinary integration and complementary advantages, adapt to the needs of the society and the market, and enhance the ability of colleges and universities to serve economic and social development. In view of the adjustment of administrative institutions, universities can reorganize and clarify the scope of responsibilities of each department to avoid overlapping functions and unclear responsibilities. These are often accompanied by the reallocation and integration of resources, and the relevant personnel involved in institutional adjustment also need to be transferred and diverted.
For example, in accordance with the spirit of the Coordination Meeting on the Reorganization of Faculties on July 8, Gansu Medical College implemented the requirements of the Notice No. 11 of Haogan Medical Letter (2024), and on August 21, 2024, the School of Clinical Medicine of the University held the first student work meeting of the first semester of the 2024-2025 academic year of the School of Clinical Medicine, and completed the adjustment and transfer of all teachers and students of the 21st and 22nd levels of clinical medicine undergraduate majors and pediatrics majors managed by the School of Basic Medical Sciences.
How to scientifically and effectively adjust the classification of relevant personnel? Many colleges and universities have clarified the principles when carrying out relevant work.
For example, in the previous work of teaching colleges (departments, centers) and directly affiliated scientific research institutions of Hunan Institute of Technology, it was clarified that high-level talents (doctors, professors, etc.) should return to the team, and all kinds of personnel (full-time teachers, experimental teachers, management personnel, counselors, etc.) should return to the team according to the categories they belong to; Teachers are not separated from the main courses, and the principle of diversion with the subject specialization; The diversion and allocation of personnel in positions such as organizers and counselors shall follow the principle of matching personnel and posts
Ruan Fengbin, Secretary of the Party Committee of West Yunnan Normal University of Science and Technology, emphasized in the investigation of the implementation of institutional reform in the School of Teacher Education (Mental Health Education Teaching Department) and the School of Mathematics and Digital Economy that the problem of personnel ownership should be solved first, and the overall transfer should be carried out in accordance with the principle of "personnel follow the department and teachers follow the specialty", and then the counselors and professional teachers will be partially optimized and adjusted according to the scale of students and the degree of professional matching. It is necessary to realize that if the profession is in the past, the professional teachers will not go against the original intention of the school reform, and the profession cannot be run without the support of teachers. This is similar to the transfer of teachers in the teaching unit of Henan University of Economics and Law.
Focus on optimizing the intrinsic quality of the profession
In recent years, a number of colleges and universities have started the adjustment of faculties, aiming to optimize the allocation of resources, break down disciplinary barriers, promote interdisciplinary integration, and cultivate compound talents with innovative spirit and practical ability.
The "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Education in Henan Province" clearly mentions that it is necessary to adjust and optimize the structure of discipline colleges and majors. Discipline-oriented, break the boundaries of schools and departments, integrate discipline resources in the province, and standardize and optimize the setting of colleges and universities. In principle, each first-level discipline should be set up in the same college to gather discipline resources; In principle, the same or similar teaching and research functions should be merged in the same college. Focusing on the effective service industry, we will gradually build a discipline college form system with distinctive characteristics, dislocation development and accurate service of "advantageous disciplines + discipline research institutes + industrial research institutes".
In fact, the structure and quality of higher education disciplines directly affect the ability of higher education to serve the high-quality development of the economy and society, and colleges and universities need to actively adapt to the needs of economic and social development, deepen the supply-side reform of disciplines and majors, optimize the structure and layout of undergraduate majors, and promote the development of professional connotation, so as to comprehensively improve the fit between talent training and social needs.
In this regard, colleges and universities can combine the analysis of the needs of the corresponding industries, and can locate the advantageous majors that serve the national strategic needs, adapt to economic and social development, have a high level of education, and have a good employment situation, and can be further inclined in policy or resource allocation. At the same time, timely adjustments should be made to majors that do not adapt to the country's economic and social development, have low quality of education, and have problems in the main links of recruitment and training.
The adjustment of disciplines and specialties includes the adjustment of elements and the adjustment of the relationship between the structure of majors. The adjustment of the elements is embodied in the boundary division and connotation adjustment of the discipline and specialty, the adjustment of the professional caliber of the corresponding field of activity or occupational field of the major, and the adjustment of the internal quality of the major, that is, the connotative professional construction.
According to the requirements of the current college evaluation and professional certification in mainland China, the school should follow the output-oriented concept to carry out professional construction, that is, the training objectives, graduation requirements, curriculum system, teaching content, teaching staff, support and service, and quality assurance mechanism should be built and optimized around the learning outcomes of students. For example, in the process of adjusting the training objectives and graduation requirements of professional talents, it is necessary to fully investigate the degree of demand for graduates' knowledge, ability and quality in the current and future training professions of the major (table), and then determine the specific specifications of talent training based on the specific interview results of core employers, so as to provide optimization directions for the subsequent adjustment of curriculum system, formulation of teaching content, and matching of teaching staff and software and hardware.
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Websites of various universities.