In order to meet the needs of national security and confidentiality situation, since 2008, according to the unified deployment of the Central Secrecy Commission, the National Secrecy Bureau has successively established 11 national security colleges and training sub bases and one provincial security college. Relying on the advantageous disciplines of various key universities, these college bases provide a new platform and way for the quality improvement of on-the-job confidential cadres and personnel while cultivating confidential professionals. How to make full use of and integrate the high-quality resources of the Secrecy Institute to improve the quality and efficiency of the continuing education of confidential cadres is a problem that needs in-depth consideration.
advantage
At present, there are 11 national security colleges and 1 provincial security college, each with different traditional disciplinary characteristics and advantages, which have good potential to carry out continuing education of security cadres.
one . Sufficient teachers 。 The 11 key universities supported by the National Secrecy College all have strong disciplinary foundation and teachers with high quality and professional level. For example, the School of Information Management of Nanjing University, which was the first to set up the School of Confidentiality, ranks among the top universities in China in terms of teachers' teaching strength in information science, information retrieval and other disciplines. The School of State Secrets of Fudan University relies on the faculty of journalism, national politics and other disciplines, which is also second to none in China. Making full use of these high-quality teaching faculty is the basis for doing a good job in confidential continuing education.
two . Good guarantee conditions 。 The National Secrecy College relies on national key universities, and has a good foundation in terms of school running logistics conditions and infrastructure construction. The school generally has well-equipped classrooms, lecture halls and other learning places, rich books and materials, and comfortable and quiet environmental conditions, It has laid the foundation for further education of confidentiality.
three . Strong cultural atmosphere 。 Each key university has its unique campus culture and profound cultural heritage. Campus culture has the function of shaping, inspiring, educating and guiding people. Compared with other training institutions, this environment and cultural atmosphere is unique. For students who participate in confidential continuing education in school, it can increase cultural influence, improve comprehensive quality and cultivation, and play the role of "moistening things silently". Compared with other types of training institutions, this kind of training is incomparable.
Short board
The National Institute of Confidentiality has accumulated good experience in daily academic teaching and management, but from the perspective of continuing education of confidential cadres, this is a new field of education, and there are still some shortcomings in effectively carrying out continuing education of confidentiality.
one . Lack of experience and understanding 。 Continuing education is different from ordinary higher education, which colleges and universities are good at. It emphasizes the pertinence, timeliness and artistry of education itself, and focuses on designing and organizing education and teaching around a practical theme. On the one hand, it should not only meet the needs of students at different levels, but also closely combine the needs of the times. For schools, there is a dilemma of lack of experience and no experience to follow. On the other hand, some teachers in colleges and universities still have the prejudice of attaching importance to general education and belittling continuing education, and are unwilling or do not attach importance to investing too much energy in continuing education and teaching.
two . Insufficient resource integration 。 From the perspective of the construction of various security colleges, most of them are established by relying on the original computer, information management or law and other disciplines. The teaching staff is good at theoretical teaching and research, but there are still professional deficiencies in practical teaching, macro policy research, and specific practical case teaching. Although some colleges have hired off campus security professionals to teach, the quality of lesson preparation and teaching effect can not be guaranteed, which is likely to lead to shortcomings in teaching. At the same time, different colleges and universities have their own strengths in professional teaching. How to put the best quality teachers into continuing education can be achieved by integrating existing teachers in various forms of teaching, such as distance learning, but this form is rare.
three . Insufficient teaching content 。 The confidential continuing education is a new task of the confidential college. To expand from general education to continuing education, on the one hand, teachers need to combine relevant theoretical knowledge of confidentiality in teaching, and increase the content of combining existing theoretical technology with confidentiality work. At the same time, corresponding teaching materials are also needed to facilitate students' classroom and extracurricular learning and extended reading. At present, the confidential teaching materials are not complete, and the materials available for optional learning are relatively scarce, so it is necessary to update or organize special forces to compile them.
four . Weak practice 。 Confidentiality is a highly practical work, but at present, the continuing education carried out by various confidentiality colleges is still mainly propaganda education and warning education. There are problems such as emphasizing theoretical teaching, ignoring practical links, and less curriculum design. In addition, due to the limitation of funds or places, the School of Confidentiality has no special experimental equipment, equipment or places; Many colleges are not closely related to the work of the confidentiality department, and no effective practical teaching process has been established between schools and departments.
five . Single form 。 Continuing education includes academic continuing education and non academic continuing education. Non academic continuing education can also be divided into short-term training courses and long-term training courses. From the current continuing education activities carried out by various confidential colleges, short-term training courses are the main form of education, while other forms of continuing education for academic qualifications and medium and long-term continuing education are relatively few, which leads to the unsatisfactory depth (level) and effectiveness of continuing education.
Advice
As an important base for the training of professionals in national security undertakings, the National Security College should actively use its own advantages to improve the quality of continuing education of security cadres, which can be considered from the following aspects.
one . Strengthen policy support for the School of Confidentiality 。 To strengthen the continuing education of the Secrecy College and realize the sustainable development of the continuing education of the Secrecy College, it is necessary to establish a good system and mechanism, and strengthen the guidance and guidance for each college to carry out the continuing education of the confidentiality cadres. First, it is necessary to establish an evaluation mechanism for the workload of confidential continuing education, treat the workload calculation of confidential continuing education and general academic education equally, and take the workload of participating in confidential continuing education as an important reference for the promotion and evaluation of college positions. The second is to improve the investment mechanism for the construction funds of the School of Confidentiality, update and configure advanced equipment and technical software in a timely manner, build corresponding laboratories, provide a good environment for virtual and simulated drilling conditions, and enable students to learn the latest technical knowledge during training. The third is to establish an exchange mechanism between confidential colleges, and all colleges across the country should form a good communication and cooperation mechanism to jointly improve in benign competition. For example, we can learn from each other in terms of teachers' conditions, and jointly organize scientific research to tackle key problems.
two . Establish a team of full-time and part-time teachers 。 Building a stable teaching staff with strong theoretical foundation, familiar with confidentiality laws and regulations, confidentiality technology and other practices is the premise for carrying out the continuing education of confidentiality cadres. From the perspective of its disciplinary and professional characteristics, confidentiality education not only includes the education of confidentiality situation policy, confidentiality theory knowledge, confidentiality technology, but also includes the comprehensive education of confidentiality work practice, which is theoretical, academic, practical and warning. The full-time faculty of the college has rich experience in scientific research, theoretical, academic and deliberative teaching, but is relatively short of professional knowledge in terms of confidential technology, practice and cases. Therefore, properly employing some business backbones as part-time teachers in the confidential departments or enterprises can better make up for this deficiency, give full play to the advantages of the two teaching staff teams, and talk about them separately in a series of topics, or talk about them together in the same unit. The two types of teachers can also organize regular concentrated lesson preparation, carry out teaching seminars, and enhance the teaching effect.
three . Continuously deepen education and teaching content 。 Formulating reasonable education and teaching content is the key to improving the quality of confidential continuing education. For various types of continuing education projects, different education goals should be formulated, and the content of continuing education should be deepened based on goals. At present, confidentiality continuing education is mainly short-term training, mainly focusing on special lectures on confidentiality situation tasks, security precautions, etc. From the perspective of the effect of continuing education, the information obtained by students is scattered, the knowledge system is not enough, and the depth and effect of mastering skills are still insufficient. It is necessary to set different education contents for different types of continuing education, such as short-term, medium-term or long-term, according to the objects of continuing education at different levels, so as to achieve the best results.
four . Innovate and improve teaching methods 。 Improving teaching methods is an important way to improve the quality of confidential continuing education. In view of the characteristics of continuing education students who have certain work experience and theoretical foundation, in the process of teaching, first, we should change teachers' one-way indoctrination, adopt heuristic teaching and discussion teaching methods, make the education process become a process of teachers and students studying and discussing problems together, and enhance the academic atmosphere of continuing education. The second is to adopt a combination of open and closed teaching methods. At the same time of classroom discussion and teaching, it is necessary to visit, investigate, research, and hire technicians from the security department to demonstrate technical operations in the classroom or organize students to visit relevant units and departments to learn about new security technologies and learn relevant work experience. Face to face communication is adopted to stimulate students' interest in learning and enhance their participation in learning. Third, we should use modern teaching methods to enhance the teaching effect. For example, introducing audio-visual education and computer multimedia into confidential education, combined with explanation and discussion and other teaching methods, can increase the amount of classroom teaching information, activate the atmosphere and improve the effect.
