On the
afternoon of June 14th, the Thirteenth Session of the Ninth
Committee Meeting for the Conferment of Academic Degrees was held in Conference
Room 215, Songen Building, and chaired by President Zhu Chongshi, chairman of
XMU Committee for the Conferment of Academic Degrees.
At the
meeting, representatives from the Academic Affairs Office, Medical College, Overseas
Education College and College of Continuing Education announced
the names of the 2017 candidates for Bachelor Degrees, and then the Graduate
School offered the name list of candidates for Master’s Degrees and Doctoral
Degrees. After discussion, the committee members decided to offer Bachelor degrees
for 5792 undergraduate students, Master’s degrees for 3227 postgraduate
students and Doctoral degrees for 203 doctoral students.
Meanwhile,
supervisor candidates for doctoral students were also discussed at the meeting
and 7 professors were entitled to be supervisors for doctoral students at last.
And the 2016 result of anonymous review of postgraduate dissertations was also reported
on the meeting.
President
Zhu pointed out that our university should continue putting more emphasis on
academic achievement and conduct our work in line with the requirements of
Ministry of Education.
The
Graduate School made a thorough report on the recruitment of doctoral students,
the standardization of the management of postgraduate courses and programs, and
ways to advance the internalization of postgraduate education and enhance
students’ scientific and research capability. President Zhu said on the meeting
that XMU had achieved great success in the comprehensive reform of postgraduate
education in recent five years. He stressed that research capability and reform
should be underlined in the postgraduate education, especially doctoral
education. All colleges and institutes should always emphasize the quality of
students’ dissertation, deal with the problems arising from the anonymous
review and take more measures to ensure the quality of dissertation.
