Four puzzles to be solved in international class: The concept of certification is ambiguous

Under the background of global economic integration, the internationalization of higher education has become a trend, all kinds of Sino-foreign Cooperative Schools, international colleges and international projects have sprung up. In recent years, with the deepening of the industry, international classes in the publicity, enrollment, management, teachers and other aspects of the problems gradually surfaced, how to let the international school embarked on a formal, benign development path, began to cause the industry to ponder. and the international class from the qualification approval, admission to school education certification process has been not known to outsiders. Puzzle 1 Difficult to distinguish the concept of international class is difficult to unify since September 1986, after the approval of the State Council, the First Sino-Foreign Cooperative School----Nanjing University, Hopkins University, the Center for Sino-American Cultural Research, China-foreign cooperative schools, international classes and a series of international education patterns have emerged. Since the beginning of the early 90, the internationalization of higher education has experienced the development of the past ten years. The International programs and international classes brought about by Sino-Foreign Cooperative schools have been updated every year, the old projects are eliminated year in, the new projects have been created, which makes the concept of "international class" become confusing. At present, it is generally accepted that international classes are composed of two stages of domestic training and foreign curriculum learning, which is the joint training of some universities and other countries in China, and finally obtains the international accredited undergraduate degree certificate issued by foreign universities. "The British Higher Education Office International class project teacher explained." At present, international classes or Sino-Foreign cooperative programs include international undergraduate "4+0", "2+2" and "1+3", as well as international class projects organized by the two-level college. With the proliferation of international projects, at present, as long as it is related to Sino-Foreign cooperative schools, or to study abroad programs are covered by the international class, and even some projects four years in the country, but the school and foreign universities linked is also known as international classes. For a while, international classes everywhere, true and false difficult to distinguish, good or bad points. Puzzle 2 Qualification examination and approval mechanism regulation is clear but imperfect. At present, Beijing has the Ministry of Education for the record, according to the "Sino-Foreign Cooperative School Regulations" and its implementation measures approved the establishment of the Sino-Foreign Cooperative school institutions have two, held the Sino-Foreign Cooperative School Project 29, Another two Sino-foreign cooperative education institutions and 37 Sino-Foreign Cooperative School Project Review and the Sino-Foreign Cooperative School license and Sino-Foreign Cooperation program approval. In addition, the Ministry of Education directly under the Unit to study Abroad Service Center also includes HND, study abroad training and other international class projects and various international exchanges. The annual increase of international classes, the increasing number of school-running institutions and school-running projects have raised questions about how to open international classes and the qualification of international classes, and many students and parents are also curious. According to the regulations of the People's Republic of China on Sino-Foreign Cooperative Education announced by the Ministry of Education, the establishment of Sino-Foreign Cooperative school-running institutions is divided into two steps. At the stage of establishment, the institution shall submit to the approving unit the details of the bid submission, the cooperation agreement, the assets investment and so on, and not less than 15% of the start-up funds of the Chinese-foreign cooperative operators, if there is a donation, the school production must submit the donation agreement.。 And in the formal establishment stage, the approval department shall submit the formal application for establishment, preparation for the establishment of the approval, preparation of the situation report, the Constitution of the Sino-Foreign Cooperative School, the effective proof of the assets of the Sino-Foreign Cooperative School, and the qualification documents of the principal or Chief Administrative Officer, teachers and Ministry of Education related responsible person discloses, the approval process of Chinese-foreign cooperative running a long time, need to carry on many audits and inspect. "Applying for the establishment of a Sino-foreign cooperative School for the implementation of undergraduate or higher education, shall be examined and approved by the Education Administration Department of the State Council." Among them, HND project in recent years has been a concern of students, HND Project qualification approval is slightly different. "Since the HND project is a project of introducing the Scottish Diploma Management Committee (SQA) from the China Study Service center directly under the Ministry of Education, the institutions requiring this project must also be approved by the Study Service Center and the Scottish Diploma Management Committee." "said Mr. Jia, the Beijing Rainbow International Education Consulting Co., Ltd. At present, in order to ensure the quality of teaching, the project only allows colleges and universities to open applications. "She continued. In this regard, many people in the industry said that although the Ministry of Education related regulations for Sino-Foreign cooperative schools have a strict audit, but the specific provisions of the relevant data is still vague, there is no specific standards. At the same time, does not exclude some colleges and universities to cheat to cause some information asymmetry, the audit process authenticity is affected. Puzzle 3 Low-key enrollment enrollment rely on the network mostly without high-profile propaganda offensive, but rely on the network to spread and advertising in the city newspaper to get students. This is the main way of recruiting more and more international classes in recent years. According to the survey, with the annual increase in the number of overseas students, international classes have become a way to study abroad, the participation in international classes of students grew every year. As far as the HND project is concerned, the Ministry of Education's Study Abroad Service center data shows that the project in the school more than 10,000 students, of which the Renmin University of China's HND project to recruit more people. "Our annual enrollment is around 800, which is mainly restricted by the resources of the campus, where students are recruited from all over the country, mainly from foreign students, and perhaps only 5% of the local students," he said. Said Ma, a teacher at the British Higher Education Office at the Training Institute of Renmin University. So many students take part in international classes, where are the news from, and what are the admissions channels for each college? Reporter survey found that the international class enrollment is generally poor, some admissions office even temporary formation, the end of the enrollment immediately dissolved. From the way of enrollment, the current domestic recruitment of international classes are mainly network, television, newspapers, on-site enrollment and recruitment and other methods. Each international class adopts different enrollment methods, in which the network is the main way to recruit and consult the international class at present. International classes on its International College web site will be published every year of the enrollment brochure, but also contact different agency website to publish information on enrollment. With HND project as an example, in addition to the Chinese People's University Training Institute, Uibe Institute of Continuing Education and other colleges and universities, such as the publication of enrollment brochures, such as the learning process network, excellent learning network and related portals of the international education Channel will also publish relevant information. At the same time, the agency site also provides online consultation, real-time communication, these are for foreign students to adopt the means of publicity. According to industry estimates, simply looking at the network advertising costs, estimates accounted for only 10% of the enrollment expenses of about 15%, and propaganda effect is much better than newspapers and other media. Puzzle 4 Diploma Certification and diploma Certification Concept Fuzzy International class after graduation certificate certification has become a concern for many students and parents. In fact, some international classes of education are non-academic or international exchange, not academic education, which allows many students to graduate to know that the certificate on hand is only scrap. Taking the HND project as an example, the project was introduced into BETCHND (British National Higher Education Diploma) and SQAHND (British Higher Education diploma). "Although all two projects belong to the HND project, the degree of the BETCHND program cannot be certified domestically, unless the student obtains a master's degree from abroad and the degree is certified," said Uibe, the school's quarterly teacher. and SQA abroad after a year after graduating from home, his degree can be certified. "Due to the differences in degree certification, the early years of the two-HND project degree certification of the quarrel." About the Ministry of Education Study Abroad Service Center also hereby publishes the internal material, confirms that only SQAHND degree is certified. The BTECHND project was unable to be certified so that the Ministry of Education terminated the project in 2003. Although the SQAHND project in the domestic degree can be certified, but the degree of certification also has a lot of resistance. Industry experts introduced, currently on the market many schools "cynical", using the parents of the Ministry of Education of the negligence of the laws and regulations, fuzzy degree and education concepts. Relevant industry personage discloses to the reporter, Degree attestation and academic certificate to student's future has the different influence, the current domestic independent enrollment international class mainly for the degree to do the attestation, but the academic qualification resistance is very big.