Exploring the way of high-quality development of military education
■ Yang Xuguang
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At present, in order to thoroughly implement the strategy of strengthening the army with talents in the new era, promote the comprehensive transformation and upgrading of military personnel’s ability and quality, structural layout, development and management, and forge high-quality and professional new-type military personnel with both ability and political integrity, we must persistently use the supreme leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, especially the supreme leader’s thought of strengthening the army, to cultivate people, to deepen reform and solve problems in reform, to crack contradictions in development with innovative development, and to promote the development of military education in a high-quality direction with effective measures.
Strengthen the strength of "unification" and give full play to the comprehensive educational function of the trinity new military talent training system
Constructing a new pattern of trinity talent training is a milestone for our military education to enter a new era and a high-quality development track. It needs to be optimized and improved in deepening practice, improving quality and increasing efficiency.
Understand the operating mechanism of the new military personnel training system. Focusing on the cultivation of high-quality and professional talents, military academy education as the main channel focuses on solid foundation, military training practice focuses on transformation and application in large classrooms, and military vocational education is a big platform focusing on filling gaps and expanding. It is necessary to focus on giving full play to their respective strengths, establish and improve a mechanism of integration, complementarity and linkage based on unified personnel training objectives, quality standards and resource management, and jointly support military personnel training to achieve high-level operational goals.
Give priority to the development of military academy education. Strengthening the army first strengthens the school, and college education plays a fundamental, leading and overall role in army building. It is necessary to carry forward our army’s fine tradition of running schools and educating people, aim at the goal of building first-class military academies and training first-class military talents, strengthen the unique functions of colleges and universities, such as cultivating and reserving talents, innovating theories and developing technologies, leading the transformation of combat training and testing combat capability, and truly implement the priority development strategy of colleges and universities with rigid measures, so as to make colleges and universities a well-deserved "locomotive" for the construction of our army’s combat effectiveness.
Strengthen military training, practice and cultivate talents. Military training practice is an important link in the talent training chain, a key step to accelerate the development of officers and men, and an ideal examination room to test the actual ability of war talents in peacetime. It is necessary to guide officers and men to base themselves on their post responsibilities, flexibly transform and apply the thinking concept, theoretical knowledge and basic ability learned in colleges and universities in the practice of training and preparing for war, improve their ability and quality in the practical task tempering, and lay a solid ladder for the career development of officers and men.
Comprehensively promote military vocational education. Military vocational education has irreplaceable strategic value for officers and men to update their knowledge, keep up with the times, be competent for their posts and enhance their abilities, and is an important support for building a learning-oriented military camp in the new era. It is necessary to focus on fighting, focusing on posts, focusing on urgent needs and focusing on the frontier to carry out post re-education and retraining for officers and men, strengthen motivation and policy drive, standardize post self-learning activities such as improving performance ability, preparatory training for college education, vocational qualification certification and skill appraisal training, upgrading on-the-job academic qualifications, and improving scientific and technological literacy, and accelerate the construction of a pattern of officers and men learning from time to time, learning everywhere, learning for everyone, and lifelong learning.
Highlight the standard of "specialization" and improve the ability and level of military education to prepare for war.
The basis of the actual combat capability of the army is specialization, and the core of the military professionalism level is specialization. With the increasing complexity of the technical composition and knowledge-intensive degree of the army, it poses a greater challenge to the professionalism of all kinds of military talents, which requires that military education must put specialization construction in a more important position.
Firmly establish the concept of running a school professionally. Clearly establish the school-running idea of creating characteristics by specialization, emphasizing quality by specialization and seeking development by specialization, insist on taking professional ability as the core factor to evaluate the quality of personnel training, take professional characteristics as the key index to measure the level of education and training institutions, adopt classified construction, classified management, make overall arrangements and differentiate the resources of colleges and training institutions, and strive to make each educational entity unique in its respective professional fields.
Build a strong professional discipline system. Focus on the needs of preparing for war, twist the main training task of training units, comprehensively use the methods of changing birds in cages and substantive integration, inherit the inherent genes of traditional dominant disciplines, vigorously strengthen the supporting disciplines for preparing for war, vigorously cultivate new fields and new quality disciplines, deepen the transformation of traditional disciplines "military+"and "intelligence+",promote the intensive allocation and utilization of specialized educational resources, and continuously improve the advanced and sophisticated level of disciplines.
Forging professional teachers. In strict accordance with the professional standards, teachers’ qualifications for admission and the selection of college presidents are set, so as to attract the best talents from the military and local areas to run schools, and strive to build a teaching staff with high professional level and always full of vitality.
Strengthen professional evaluation and supervision. Give full play to the "baton" function of education evaluation and the "corrector" function of education supervision, evaluate the quality of teaching, construction and education with the advantage of specialization as the core index, take the implementation of professional construction planning plan and the implementation of laws and regulations as the focus of education supervision, and strongly guide military education to accelerate the connotative development based on specialization.
Focus on the traction of "war" and promote the transformation and upgrading of military education with the innovation of talent training mode
Military education is born of war and built for war. We must always focus on actual combat, focus on winning and cultivating talents, and integrate military theory innovation, high-tech breakthrough, future war design and talent cultivation, so that the cultivated talents can always stay ahead of the war and opponents.
Improve the mechanism for selecting students. In the future, intelligent warfare has high requirements for military talents’ cognitive ability, learning ability and innovation ability. The selection of cadets of growth officers should highlight the investigation and screening of intelligence level and military professional potential, and attract outstanding talents in a larger space and scope. In accordance with the selection criteria for senior and middle-level officers, trainees in post education should choose the best among them and enter the school to receive systematic training, and at the same time complete the task of continuing education for all other personnel through military vocational education.
Optimize the talent training system. Adapt to the new requirements of the changes of war, science and technology and opponents on the ability and quality of officers and men, and dynamically optimize the generation mechanism of talent training needs. According to the basic standards of national higher education and the objectives and specifications of military education and training at all levels, and following the law and characteristics of the growth of different professional talents in the arms and services, the training methods of various talents are designed differently.
Innovate the teaching mode in an all-round way. Strengthen actual combat teaching by emphasizing competence, and achieve the docking of course content and post standards, teaching process and combat process, and training organization and battlefield requirements in post education; Strengthen individualized teaching and encourage students to fully demonstrate their originality under the constraints of common norms; Using information technology to develop new forms of teaching, to meet the characteristics of different types of training, and to create the best learning plan and teaching process suitable for everyone.
Create a smart education environment. Adhering to the student-centered concept, we will carry out the pilot project of digital construction of military education, create a simulated confrontation teaching environment with real experience, intelligent driving and iterative upgrading by using virtual reality technology, and build a military wisdom education platform to support the transformation of military education.
Promote the depth of "connection" and take the road of joint education and open education.
Military education should be oriented to the world’s military frontier, to the important needs of national security, and to the modernization of national defense and the army. It is impossible to do it behind closed doors, and we must persist in opening up and educating people.
Get through the talent training link. It is necessary to strengthen the seamless connection of education and training at all levels, design the talent training framework in an integrated way, determine the training objectives and specifications by classification and stratification, focus on the orientation of different colleges and universities, intensively allocate educational resources, and explore the construction of a talent training pattern that integrates college education with on-the-job education, academic education with on-the-job education, junior high school and senior high school command education, meets the practical needs and pre-sets training smoothly.
Adhere to the direction of the United Education Association. Strengthen the combination of theory and practice between colleges and universities and the army, focus on fundamentally solving the problem of "acclimatization", hand over the "last mile" of training officers to the army, and explore the mechanism of graduation only after passing the post practice; In order to make up for the congenital deficiency of educational practice ability in colleges and universities, we try to entrust some practical courses such as command, management and group training to army commanders, entrust comprehensive training tasks and large-scale weapons and equipment teaching to designated troops, and promote the efficient use of practical teaching and training resources through accurate planning.
Shaping the pattern of integrated education. Strengthen the introduction and sharing of local high-quality educational resources, build a collaborative innovation platform through military and civilian cooperation, and promote the joint training of high-end talents on a larger scale and at a higher level; We should extensively tap and utilize the high-value resources of talents, information and security in local colleges and universities to improve the overall efficiency of military education.
