Vouchers,tests, loans,privatization: Will they help tackle corruption in Russian higher education?

Higher education in Russia is currently being reformed. A standardized computer-graded test and educational vouchers were introduced to make higher education more accessible, fund it more effectively, and reduce corruption in admissions to public colleges. The voucher project failed and the test faces furious opposition. This paper considers vouchers, standardized tests, educational loans, and privatization as related to educational corruption. Many criticize the test for increasing educational corruption, but it is needed to replace the outdated admissions policy based on entry examinations. This paper also considers the growing de facto privatization of the nation’s higher education system as a fundamental process that should be legalized and formalized. It suggests that the higher education industry should be further restructured, and decentralized and privatized, and sees educational loans as a necessary part of the future system of educational funding.     

论哈姆雷特之延宕

《哈姆雷特》是莎士比亚的代表作,该剧塑造了哈姆雷特这个集思想家、救世主、孤独者于一身的复杂人物形象。本文从“延宕”入手解读该形象,并分析了造成其悲剧的根源。这将有助于我们更全面地把握该形象以及文艺复兴时期先进知识分子反抗旧秩序的不懈努力,     

Exploring the potential impact of reciprocal peer tutoring on higher education students’ metacognitive knowledge and regulation

It is widely recognized that metacognition is an important mediator for successful and high-level learning, especially in higher education. Nevertheless, a majority of higher education students possess insufficient metacognitive knowledge and regulation skills to self-regulate their learning adequately. This study explores the potential of reciprocal peer tutoring to promote both university students’ metacognitive knowledge and their metacognitive regulation skills. The study was conducted in a naturalistic higher education setting, involving 67 students tutoring each other during a complete semester. A multi-method pretest–posttest design was used combining a self-report questionnaire, assessing students’ metacognitive knowledge and their perceived metacognitive skilfulness, with the analysis of think-aloud protocols, revealing students’ actual use of metacognitive strategies. Results indicate no significant pretest to posttest differences in students’ metacognitive knowledge, nor in their perception of metacognitive skill use. In contrast, significant changes are observed in students’ actual metacognitive regulation. At posttest, students demonstrate significantly more frequent and more varied use of metacognitive regulation, especially during the orientation, monitoring, and evaluation phases. Furthermore, our findings point to an increase in more profound and higher-quality strategy use at posttest.     

Recasting the academic workforce: why the attractiveness of the academic profession needs to be increased and eight possible strategies for how to go about this from an Australian perspective

This article analyses academic work and the academic workforce in the context of current dynamics and likely futures. It discusses the significance of academic work, reviews workforce characteristics, and analyses tensions and pressures. Prevailing conceptualisations, it is argued, do not reflect the current situation in which the profession finds itself, and would provide a very shaky foundation on which to build the future workforce. There is an overarching need for a fresh conceptualisation of academic work that is authentic and feasible and suggestions are offered of what this might look like. A number of strategies are proposed how such a recasting might be implemented. The paper works from Australian research, and make suggestions for other systems.     

The University as a community of selves: Johan Vilhelm Snellman's “On Academic Studies”

Nowadays we tend to regard the idea of a university as an outdated subject. The world of universities is today so complex and diverse that no general doctrine of the university seems possible. In a recent article Alasdair MacIntyre challenges this view and points out that by giving up the question “What is university?” we also give up the question “What is an educated mind?” In this article I will return to the old discussion on the idea of a university. I will go all the way back to Plato, but my main theme is J. V. Snellman’s essay On Academic Studies (1840). There Snellman, a young university lecturer at the time, defends his view that the university is a community of selves. The essay strongly emphasises that students should not only learn to know but also to act in a responsible way as selves. However, the text also reflects on Snellman’s own activity before the publication. He had defended academic freedom against the rector of the Imperial Alexander University of Finland. As a result, Snellman was in the end sentenced in an open court and forced to leave the university. Snellman’s view is certainly not the final definition of the university, but as it, besides presenting a theoretical view on the essence of the university, also reflects on activity in a university community, it gives us elements for reflecting on the idea of a university and an educated mind.     

论高校后勤队伍建设

高校后勤部门作为学校组织体系重要的组成部分,在高校发展与稳定中发挥着重要的作用。新型高校后勤部门的社会化改革与发展,必须建设和谐、高效的后勤队伍;树立系统的人才观念,构建科学的培训体系;全面提高后勤队伍的整体素质,完善"以人为本"的用人机制;加强后勤高级技能人才队伍建设。     

东西方童话中的价值观

童话,作为一种常见的文学形式,通过不同的情景展示,给予孩子知识和经验,并有助于他们形成某一社会的道德观和价值观。童话的一个主要作用是强化信念,道德和观念。童话中的故事情节则反映出整个社会共享的价值观,包括爱和宗教等诸多方面。通过分析这些童话故事,我们可以看到中西方文化于孩子形成的不同价值观。     

商务英语专业实践教学改革探析

为适应我国国际贸易经济的快速发展,许多高校近年越来越重视商务英语教学;商务英语人才不仅需要外语与国际贸易的理论知识,还要掌握熟练的语言技能和外贸实务操作能力;从教学实际出发,分析目前商务英语教学中存在的问题,提出了对该课程教学实践改革的构想,其目的在于探索商务英语实践教学课程改革的有效途径。     

浅析安乐死的争论

现代生物技术的飞速发展和卫生医疗技术的进步,出现了与死亡相关的各种伦理道德困境和难题。作为生命伦理学研究的重点内容,安乐死成为新时代各界关注的焦点问题,与其相关争论涉及医学、风俗、伦理、经济、法律、社会学、宗教信仰等多个领域。因此,从生命伦理学的立场重新审视安乐死的有关争论,对于进一步认识和解决安乐死的问题有着极其重要的作用。     

干涉条纹计数电路设计及应用

设计了一种基于单片机的迈克耳孙干涉条纹计数电路,该电路具有清零和选择明、暗条纹计数的功能,能对"冒出"或"缩进"的干涉条纹进行自动计数,结构简单、操作灵活、成本低,应用于迈克耳孙干涉仪测波长实验,测量波长误差在3%以内。