清华大学将压缩文科博士生规模
9/25/2021
中国著名高等学府清华大学将控制文科的学科规模、压缩文科博士生规模。
据清华大学官网本月20日发布的新闻稿，清华大学校长邱勇17日在清华大学文科工作会议上说，在新的发展阶段，清华文科发展要有新的目标与定位，突出目标导向，要自信从容，实现文科的高质量发展，要长远规划，到2030年实现清华文科综合实力的显著提升。
回望清华文科95年的发展，邱勇总结了两个突出特点，即大师云集与“中西融会、古今贯通、文理渗透”的办学风格。
邱勇说，正是因为清华文科的发展，清华才成为一流的综合性大学，文科发展让清华变得更人文，更人文的清华也让清华更创新、更国际。
邱勇针对未来文科建设工作提出10点要求，包括控制学科规模，率先建立内部结构调整机制；压缩博士生规模，提高培养质量；形成清华的文科文化与文科特色，坚持“文理渗透、理工结合”的特色；持续扩大文科影响力，突出清华文科的学术高度；推动文科实现内涵式高质量发展等。
清华校党委书记、文科工作领导小组组长陈旭也在会上对清华文科发展建设提出要求，包括进一步提升对文科发展的政治属性、政治要求的认识，深入贯彻落实中共总书记习近平要求，在文科发展中努力出人才、出成果、出经验、出示范，向“旗帜”“标杆”的高标准努力。
文科和理科哪个更重要的争论在中国互联网时有发生。中国央行今年4月曾发表一份有关人口转型问题的报告，其中提及东南亚国家掉入中等收入陷阱原因之一是”文科生太多“，由于这些国家的前车之鉴，中国从人口政策角度看“应该重视理工科教育”。
“文科生太多”的说法当时一度成为舆论热点话题，大部分网友对此持批评态度，认为这种观点“肤浅”且“误国”。
清华大学：将压缩文科博士生规模
来源：清华大学官网
9/24/2021
据清华大学官网消息：9月17日，清华大学文科工作会议在公共管理学院一层报告厅举行。针对文科建设工作，清华大学校长邱勇在会议中提到要控制学科规模、压缩博士生规模、提高培养质量等十点要求。
针对接下来的文科建设工作，邱勇提出十点要求：
一要控制学科规模，率先建立内部结构调整机制，保持学术的深度和高度，不断提升学科发展质量。
二要加快建设高水平师资队伍，积极打造一流的文科发展平台，吸纳最优秀的文科人才，发挥顶尖学术带头人的引领带动作用。
三要做好全校人才培养工作，积极发挥文科在通识教育中的重要作用，服务好全校教学工作与人才培养；要压缩博士生规模，提高培养质量。
四要形成清华的文科文化与文科特色，文科文化是清华文化的一个组成部分，坚持“文理渗透、理工结合”的特色。
五要持续扩大文科影响力，突出清华文科的学术高度；加强智库建设，推动智库研究水平与质量的进一步提升。
六要有历史感、现场感、责任感和使命感，增强文化自觉，树立文化自信。
七要继续建设更创新、更国际、更人文的清华，加强制度建设、文化建设、学术共同体建设，为基础文科建设提供有力保障。
八要推动文科实现内涵式高质量发展，体现办学品位，追求学术卓越，建设全球性的人文思想交流中心。
九要进一步突出抓学科基础、抓基础学科，抓学科基础还要进一步抓重点学科、抓重点学科方向，要突出高度和影响力。
十要尽心尽力培养高素质拔尖人才，要严格控制规模，不断提高质量，培养有方向、有思想、有个性、有学术潜力的高水平人才。
清华大学成立碳中和研究院
9/22/2021
外界关注中国如何实现减排承诺之际，中国著名高等学府清华大学今天（22日）正式成立碳中和研究院。
据中国央视新闻报道，研究院将围绕碳中和打造技术创新中心、高端智库战略中心、高层次人才培育基地、合作交流传播平台。
中国工程院院士、清华大学碳中和研究院院长贺克斌透露，研究院将转变学科单一发展的惯性，集中优势资源加快突破碳中和领域关键核心技术攻关，攻克一批碳中和“卡脖子”关键核心技术。
贺克斌说，下一步，清华大学将在零碳发电与动力、新型电力系统、零碳交通、零碳建筑、工业深度减排、减污降碳协同增效、CCUS与碳汇、碳中和战略等方向重点发力，力争在碳中和主战场与关键技术突破方面发挥引领作用。
中国国家主席习近平去年9月在联合国大会上宣布中国力争在2030年前实现碳排放峰值，在2060年实现碳中和。
习近平今天（22日）凌晨通过预录视频在第76届联合国大会一般性辩论致辞时重申中国碳达峰、碳中和的目标，并宣布中国将不再新建境外煤电项目。
“碳达峰”、“碳中和”在今年3月的中国全国两会首次被写入政府工作报告后，已有多所高校相继成立与碳中和相关的研究机构。
西北大学今年5月成立中国首家培养碳中和领域专门人才的西北大学榆林碳中和学院，上海交通大学同月宣布成立碳中和发展研究院，福建师范大学则在7月成立福建省首家碳中和研究院。
中国教育部今年7月下发《高等学校碳中和科技创新计划》，其中提到，教育部将推进碳中和未来技术学院和示范性能源学院建设，布局一批未来技术研究所需的科教资源和数字化资源平台，打造引领未来科技发展和有效培养复合型、创新型人才的教学科研高地。
最新世界大学排名：清、北创历史，收入超上市公司
文章来源: 市界
9/02/2021
9月2日，涵盖全球1662所大学的THE世界大学排名，由泰晤士高等教育正式发布。
值得一提的是，北京大学和清华大学，并列总榜单第16名，以及亚洲榜第1位，处于领跑地位。这是首次中国两所大学进入前20名，也是亚洲国家迄今为止的大学最高排名，堪称历史性突破。而在亚洲排在第3~5位的分别为新加坡国立大学、香港大学以及东京大学。
也就是说，在整个亚洲前五，中国高校拿到3个席位，成绩喜人。
当然，如果算上排在第7位的香港中文大学和第9位的复旦大学，在整个亚洲前十中，中国高校拿到5个席位，占据半壁江山。
不过，如果与英美相比，中国高校的确还是存在差距。
通过榜单可看出，排在世界前14的高校所在地区，全部为美国和英国，其中美国占据11个席位，包括加州理工、哈佛以及斯坦福等知名院校，英国则占据3个席位，包括牛津、剑桥等国内民众同样耳熟能详的名字，紧接着便是瑞士的苏黎世联邦理工学院和中国的清华和北大。
那么，身为中国排名最高的前两所高等院校，同时拥有“中国最高学府”之称的清华和北大，到底有多牛？
据北京大学公布的数据显示，其2021年收入总预算为221.3亿元，较2020年增加近30亿元，包括上年结转的53.2亿元。此外，清华大学公布的2021年收支总预算为317.3亿元，比前一年增加6.5亿元，除去上年结转88.5亿元，本年收入预算高达228.8亿元。
实际上，高达两三百亿的年收入，是绝大多数A股上市公司无法企及的。
东方财富Choice数据显示，以2020年为例，营业总收入达上千亿的上市公司为84家（营收破千亿的排名最后的一家为三一重工），营业总收入破500亿的有189家（最后一家为宁德时代）。与清华和北大相比，营业总收入在317.3亿元和221.3亿元以上的A股上市公司，分别为252家和338家，而A股上市公司总数量高达4400多家。
换言之，清华和北大的年收入，分别超过了94.3%和92.3%的A股上市公司。
These are the best universities in the world for 2022
By Phil Baty
9/02/2021
Image: Photo by Adrian Dascal on Unsplash
- UK’s University of Oxford retains first place in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for the sixth consecutive year as the US and UK take all top ten positions for the second year running.
- In Asia, mainland China registers its highest ever position in the ranking (16th) and sees a record 10 universities reach the world top 200, while South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong all achieve their highest positions under the current methodology.
- Dramatic improvements for the Middle East, as Saudi Arabia and Egypt emerge as the fastest-rising countries in the world.
- A record 1,662 universities from 99 countries and regions are part of this year’s rankings as the competition in the global knowledge economy intensifies.
The University of Oxford, which led the way in the global search for a Covid-19 vaccine, has been named the world’s number one university for a sixth consecutive year in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings – in a period when the global rush for research into the virus has provided a further boost to mainland China’s rapid rise up the global rankings.
Oxford came top from a record 1,662 universities from 99 countries and regions that made it into the ranking, which is based on 13 balanced performance indicators and includes an analysis of 108 million citations from 14.4 million research publications – designed to recognise universities’ role in spreading new knowledge – as well as a survey of 22,000 academics worldwide.
Harvard University took its highest position in the rankings since the current methodology was introduced in 2016, claiming second place, a position it shares with its much smaller West-coast US counterpart, the California Institute of Technology. The US claimed eight of the world’s top ten places, with the UK’s University of Cambridge in 5th place, joining Oxford as the only other top ten representatives.
Mainland China continued its rapid rise up the rankings, claiming its highest ever position with both Tsinghua and Peking universities in Beijing sharing joint 16th place – giving the mainland two top-20 positions for the first time. Mainland China claimed a record 10 of the world’s top 200 universities, up from seven last year, and just two back in 2016. Hong Kong also improved its showing at the top of the table, as four of its universities appeared in the top 100 for the first time, and registering its highest ever position in the ranking with the University of Hong Kong taking 30th place.
Success for mainland China and Hong Kong contributed towards a very strong year for East Asia in the higher echelons of the ranking, with the National University of Singapore moving up from 25th to 21st, Japan’s University of Tokyo edging up one place to =35th and South Korea’s Seoul National University moving up six places to 54th. All these results represent national bests for the countries in the table.
Louise Richardson, vice chancellor of Oxford University, told Times Higher Education: “My colleagues and I are absolutely delighted to have achieved the top ranking again. There are many great universities around the world and we are proud to be in their company.
“This past year has demonstrated to our publics, our governments, and even to ourselves just how much universities can contribute to society. The vaccine Oxford developed is being distributed in over 170 countries and over a billion doses have been manufactured. Together our universities have made the strongest possible case for renewed public investment in research universities.”
This is the first year that research into Covid-19 had an impact on the rankings data, reflecting the vital role of universities in understanding and managing the crisis and providing China with a significant boost, as several of its universities including Wuhan University (157th) and Capital Medical University (501-600 band) saw moves up the table as a result of highly cited research into the virus.
The Middle East and North Africa region also saw major improvements in the rankings. Saudi Arabia entered the world top 200 for the first time, with King Abdulaziz University reaching 190th place. The Kingdom claimed five top-400 universities, up from just two last year. Five new entrants from Saudi Arabia gave the Kingdom a record 15 representatives in the rankings.
Saudi Arabia joined Egypt as home to the fastest-rising universities in the world – improving more quickly over the last four years than mainland China, albeit from a lower base. The success for these nations was largely driven by major improvements in scores for research impact – based on citation analysis.
Other rapidly-developing countries included Malaysia, which boasts the fastest-rising higher education in terms of international outlook (attracting academic and student talent, and publishing internationally collaborative research) and Pakistan, which saw a significant boost to its scores for university-industry collaboration.
JOHNS HOPKINS NO. 13 IN ‘TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION’ WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS
Publication evaluates more than 1,600 universities from around the world based on teaching, research, citations, knowledge transfer, and international outlook metrics
Hub staff report
9/02/2021
Johns Hopkins University ranks No. 13 in the annual Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2022, which were published online Wednesday and include 1,662 colleges and universities from around the globe.
Johns Hopkins share the No. 13 ranking this year with Penn. JHU was ranked 12th globally by THE last year and has been 12th or 13th in each of the past five rankings cycles.
Hopkins also ranks No. 10 overall among 183 U.S. schools, according to THE.
The University of Oxford tops this year’s world rankings, followed by Harvard, Caltech, and Stanford. MIT and Cambridge are tied for fifth.
The Times Higher Education list, published each year since 2004, is among the world’s most influential rankings of colleges and universities, which are judged based on 13 key performance indicators grouped into five thematic areas:
- Teaching, which examines the reputation of the school’s academic instruction as well as student-to-teacher ratios, the ratio of doctoral degrees to bachelor degrees awarded, the number of faculty who hold doctorates, and the income of academic staff
- Research, which analyzes the number of publications per staff member at an institution, the research income of the school, and the reputation of that research
- Citations, which examines the school’s research influence
- Industry income, which measures knowledge transfer by quantifying the income generated by research partnerships with private industries
- International outlook, which weighs the percentage of international staff, students, and co-authorship to determine a school’s ability to attract students, faculty, and staff from around the world