Sun Yat-sen University launched the "pre-employment-long-term" system.
In 2013, Sun Yat-sen University launched the "pre-hired-tenured" system, which aims to attract young teachers with academic potential from all over the world and provide them with good conditions for academic development.
This initiative attracted widespread attention and discussion at the time, and was also imitated in universities at home and abroad.
How exactly is this new system implemented?
How has it affected teachers' professional development and academic research?
According to the system, teachers are required to go through two "promotion or leave" evaluations after entering the pre-appointed assistant professor position.
And there is only one chance to be promoted to pre-appointed associate professor.
Subsequent applications for tenured associate professorship are subject to a rigorous review process.
This strict promotion mechanism undoubtedly brings great pressure and challenges to the professional development of teachers, but it also helps to select truly excellent teachers and provide strong support for the academic construction of the school.
Once a teacher fails to apply for promotion to tenured associate professor, he or she can also choose to transfer to an off-campus teaching and research institution.
This flexible career development option opens up more possibilities for teachers, but it also puts more pressure on them to develop their careers.
In the context of the continuous abolition of staffing, university teachers are faced with more choices and challenges, and they need to face the uncertainty and risk of career development.
The introduction of the "pre-tenure" system aims to help young scholars focus on developing new disciplines and research fields and directions, which can have a positive impact on the future of disciplines and faculties in the long run.
This way of guiding and supporting the growth of young teachers will help cultivate more outstanding scholars with international vision and academic attainments, and inject new vitality into academic research and discipline construction.
It is worth mentioning that the "pre-employment-long-term employment" system has not only been successfully implemented in Sun Yat-sen University, but also imitated in universities at home and abroad.
Different schools have different ways of implementing this system, which makes this system gradually become a new trend.
With the promotion and implementation of this system, it is believed that more young teachers will be provided with more opportunities for academic development and choice.
In the context of the continuous abolition of the establishment, various universities, especially 985 universities, have higher and higher requirements for teachers.
This also means that teachers will face more choices and pressures.
How to find a suitable career development direction under such pressure and how to make greater breakthroughs in academic research is undoubtedly an important topic in front of every teacher.
The introduction of the "pre-hiring-tenure" system has undoubtedly provided more choices and opportunities for the career development of young teachers, but also brought greater challenges and pressures.
It is precisely because of this that this system can be imitated in universities at home and abroad and become a new trend.
In the face of higher requirements and pressures, teachers need to continuously improve their academic standards and find a career development direction that suits them, so as to achieve greater achievements in academic research and teaching.