Whal Fulure for Higher Educalion?

雩风三日

Whal Fulure for Higher Educalion?
高等教育的未来如何?

With all this change, the pattern of undergraduate education is certain to be transformed. The question still to be decided is whether the change will be liberal or reactionary. On the one hand, there are powerful arguments in favour of a more liberal start to undergraduate education at the universities, partly so as to provide a better foundation for specialized or vocational studies coming later and partly so as to make less sharp the need to choose between one course of specialist studies and another. Among university scientists at Cambridge last week, some development along these lines seems to have been considered inevitable. The difficulty is to know what form a more liberal undergraduate curriculum should take. There is much to be said for the simple abolition of undergraduate courses in subjects too narrow to be taught with integrity. Evidently undergraduate courses in microbiology are to be deplored on educational grounds. So too are biochemistry and even metallurgy. There is also much to be said for the several proposals recently put forward to show how undergraduate teaching might consist of a period of more general study followed by a period of special or vocational study. Professor A. B.  Pippard's scheme for two years of general work (with some specialism on the side for those who want it) leading to a degree has been usually attacked for the wrong reasons. The truth is that some device like this. that will allow young people an opportunity to use the first university degree as a stepping stone to something qualitatively different, is essential if some means of satisfying the volatile and unpredictable demands of the labour market is to be found. But that is only one of the many reasons why the Pippard proposals deserve serious attention

随着所有这些变化，本科教育模式必将发生转变。这个变化是自由主义的还是反动主义的，仍有待决定。一方面,存在支持一个更加自由的有力论据,开始大学本科教育,部分提供一个更好的专业或职业的基础研究来后,一定程度上使不锋利的专家研究的需要选择一个课程。上周，剑桥大学的科学家们认为，这方面的一些发展似乎是不可避免的。困难的是要知道一个更开明的本科课程应该采用什么形式。对于简单地取消那些过于狭窄而不能以正直的方式教授的本科课程，有很多话要说。显然，微生物学的本科课程在教育方面是令人遗憾的。生物化学甚至冶金学也是如此。最近提出的几项建议也有很多值得讨论的地方，这些建议表明本科教学可能包括一段更普遍的学习，然后是一段特殊或职业学习。a . B. Pippard教授为获得学位而提出的为期两年的一般工作(同时为那些想要获得学位的人提供一些专业知识)计划，通常被人以错误的理由攻击。事实上，像这样的装置。这将使年轻人有机会利用第一个大学学位作为踏脚石，走向不同的东西。如果要找到某种手段来满足劳动力市场不稳定和不可预测的需求，这是至关重要的。但这只是皮帕德提案值得认真关注的众多原因之一