Disorderly Graduate Education and Its Correction

Graduate education in China is faced with a disorderly situation—irregularities in enrollment,poorly designed graduate programs,low quality graduate courses that resemble undergraduate courses,academic inbreeding,alienated teacher-student relationships,lack of innovation,low teacher-student ratios,and imbalanced proportions of graduate education.To correct this situation,a number of strategies must be adopted: redefining the goal of graduate education,transforming graduate programs,reforming the management of graduate education,accelerating the internationalization of graduate training,establishing a graduate education law,and forming a quality assurance system for graduate education.