加拿大高等教育的突出特色

加拿大各级政府在高等教育方面颇具战略眼光,对教育质量特别重视。加拿大高等院校具有鲜明的民主思想和强烈的人文关怀意识,其灵活的办学体制提高了教育效益,高度的学生自治培养了学生的创新能力。     

从蔡元培的高等教育思想透视大学校长的角色定位

蔡元培是我国高等教育改革的先驱,在他的管理思想和教育理念的指导下,高等教育改革取得了显赫的成绩。作为北大的校长,北大的成功改革源于他“兼容并包”、“教授治教”等管理思想和教育理念。他在具体的措施实施中所扮演的角色既充当了管理者,又扮演了教育家,这一角色定位是我们今天的校长必须要继承的。同时,在市场化的今天,在教育国际化的浪潮中,现代大学校长的角色还应是管理者、经营家、学术带头人。为适应这种新发展,大学校长应具备新素质来实现其新职能。     

高等院校应强化毒品预防教育

随着毒品问题日益严重 ,受毒品侵蚀的阶层日益广泛 ,各级政府在对中、小学生的毒品预防教育中倾注了大量的精力 ,而作为培养高级人才的大专院校 ,在毒品相关知识的宣传教育方面 ,从深度、广度到力度都存在严重不足。因此 ,探讨如何在高等院校开展相关知识的宣传 ,以及在大学生中进行反毒、防毒教育的措施和方法 ,是具有非常现实的意义的     

高职院校图书馆员提高综合素质刍议

高职院校图书馆是高职教育教学的重要组成部分,是教师科研、教学的参谋部,是学生学习的"第二课堂".然而其馆员的知识结构和服务技能等综合素质不能适应高职教育的需要.高职教育要发展,高职图书馆也要发展,提高其馆员素质是高职图书馆的一项迫在眉睫的任务.我们应采取注重职业道德培养、加强在职培训、定期组织学术交流等措施,大幅度提高高职院校图书馆员的综合素质.     

高等学校不作为的可诉性探讨

虽然司法实践中学校已经被纳入司法审查的范围,但是对于学校的法律地位的界定在理论界仍然存在着争论,不管是特殊的民事主体理论,还是法律法规授权的组织理论都存在一定的局限性,对该问题难以自圆其说。这其中有一些高校不作为的情形:拒发毕业证、学位证等,由于表现形式多样,进行相应的司法救济和要求国家赔偿虽然非常必要但也有很多困难,因此借鉴其他国家的公务法人理论有助于我国较好地解决该问题,为司法实践工作提供理论上的依据,也符合我国进行的事业单位改革的方向。     

日本国立大学改制评介

日本高等教育领域内的国立大学独立行政法人化改革以国会立法的方式推行,有关法规自2003年10月1日开始生效,从2004年4月起,日本所有国立大学的身份将“独立行政法人化”。这是一项制度性变革,影响到日本国立大学的各个方面,对我国高等教育的改革和科学规划具有借鉴意义。     

高职院校统计课计算机辅助教学的探讨

在现代统计学的教学过程中,借助于计算机等现代化教学手段是更好地实现统计学教学目标的现实途径之一。要达到计算机辅助教学的预期效果,必须实现统计教学重心的转移,提高课堂教学效率,激发学生的学习兴趣,拓展教学内容。     

网络环境下我国高职高专会计教育的改革与发展

适应网络环境下会计教育的发展趋势,高职高专会计教育应从教育环境、目标、内容、师资队伍建设、会计实践、考核方式等多个方面进行改革和发展,以适应我国经济发展对会计人才的需求。     

Lockdown labs: Pivoting to remote learning in forensic science higher education

Forensic Science training and education is reliant on the application of knowledge to casework scenarios and the development of key practical skills that provide a platform for career development in the field. The COVID-19 pandemic introduced a number of challenges to effectively deliver practical content online and remotely, whilst still meeting intended learning outcomes, accreditation requirements, and attaining a high level of student engagement and experience. The MSc Forensic Science programme featured in this study is a one-year degree programme with a strong emphasis on the practical elements of forensic science, and a diverse international student cohort. Therefore, the restrictions associated with the pandemic made it very difficult not only to plan the delivery of material but also to adapt the content itself for effective online and remote learning.By focusing on the intended learning outcomes, a number of innovative teaching practices were developed to successfully transition from face-to-face teaching to online and remote delivery. A range of online and practical resources were developed, including a laboratory home kit, demonstration videos, online practical technique simulations (produced by Learning Science), data analysis tasks, and interactive workshops and activities, all designed to consolidate student learning and build confidence, in preparation for such a time that on campus practical teaching could resume. The initial feedback received from these activities from both staff and students was extremely positive and the transition from classroom to online teaching was a success, as reflected in student attainment and later student feedback. Students reported that they had a better understanding of what was expected of them, including knowledge of protocols and techniques, and felt much more confident moving into the next stage of their learning development. Even though the practical laboratory sessions were the most significantly affected by the restrictions associated with the pandemic, and resulted in reduced interaction for the students, this was counteracted by virtual sessions and workshops, which gave students the opportunity to engage with each other and communicate their thoughts and opinions, ultimately building key presentation and group working skills.This case study will detail the pivot to remote learning, as well as critically evaluating the feedback from students and discussing the changes that are likely to be retained as longer-term teaching practices, versus those that were a necessary temporary addition or adjustment in response to the pandemic.     

Proposing Problem-Based Learning for teaching future forensic speech scientists

In the last 10–15 years, Masters programmes and undergraduate modules have emerged in the UK that teach forensic speech science. Forensic speech science is the forensic subdiscipline concerned with analysing speech recordings, such as telephone calls of unknown speakers, when they arise as evidence. In order to answer questions surrounding the identity of the speakers in these recordings, forensic speech analysts draw on their expertise in phonetics and acoustics. Even though existing UK forensic speech science programmes do not claim to train students to a level where they are in a position to carry out real-life forensic casework, a proportion of the graduates from these programmes do go on to fill discipline-specific roles in security organisations or for private providers of forensic speech analysis. It is therefore surely in the community’s interests to review educational approaches to capitalise on the current training opportunities. This paper specifically proposes to explore the potential of a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach to forensic speech science teaching. PBL is a student-centred learning approach that heavily relies on the students’ independence in the solving of ill-structured problems. PBL has shown to be beneficial to programmes that directly lead on to discipline-specific professional roles, and has even become the standardised teaching approach in some of those areas (medicine being the flagship example). Given its reported success in other disciplines, the question arises as to whether PBL could bring similar benefits to prospective forensic speech practitioners and to forensic speech science as a whole.