试论民国时期中国现代学位制度的建立

中国现代意义的学位与研究生制度均源自西方,是在清末民初移植西方大学制度时引入中国的。中国现代学位制度之建立,始于南京国民政府制定专门学位法规的颁行。1929年,国民政府开始拟订《学位条例草案》;1931年,国民政府草拟《学位授予法》。1935年4月,正式通过并颁布了《学位授予法》。根据这些法规,各国立大学研究院陆续进行了硕士研究生考试,授予考试合格者以硕士学位,逐步建立起现代学位制度。

The Construction of the Chinese Modern Academic Degree

Degree in the modern sense and graduate system were derived from the West.They were introduced into China when the western university system was transplanted into China in the Late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China.Chinese modern degree system was established when Nanjing National government began to formulate special degree laws and regulations.In 1929,Republic of China’s government started to draw up "Draft on Degree Rules".In 1931,it drafted "Law on Offering Degrees".In April 1935,Republic of China’s government passed and issued "Law on Offering Degrees" formally.According to these laws and regulations,each research institute of national universities carried out graduate entrance examination for master degree one after another,offered those who passed the exam with master degree,thus gradually established a modern degree system.