On Society Demand as the Orientation of Higher Education Reform
The Ministry of Education,in the end of 2009,proposed a policy intention of taking society demand as the orientation of pushing higher education reform.The proposal attracts hot debates in and out of academia.This group of articles discusses the following issues.Firstly,how to deal with the diversified society demands for those higher education institutions varied in types and tiers,what is the start point and what are the steps in the reform led by society demands? Secondly,facing serious survival condition,how those mass institutions accounted a major proportion in higher education institution system change their strategies to gain a new progress? Thirdly,in order to meet society demands,what kind of problems exist and need to be changed in setting disciplines and majors? Fourthly,what is the position of personal need in these society demands,and how to consider the function of individual demand in the reform? The last but not the least,what are the issues we should be paid special attention to in this higher education reform which is oriented by society demands because of the particularity of higher education market.