Development history of The School of Education can be dated back to 1980 when The Research Office of Higher Education, HUST was established. Led by the older scholars, including Zhu Jiusi, Tu Youguang, Cai Keyong, We Fuxiang etc., faculty of The School of Education has laid a solid foundation in serving holistic development of HUST, and The School of Education was qualified for operating Master’s Program and Doctorial Program in Higher Education in 1986 and 1996, respectively. Taking the opportunity of institutional setup and based upon 5100m2new teaching and office buildings,the School of Education has entered into a period of rapid development since 2000. Since then,the School of Education was approved for operating Doctorial Program in Educational Economy & Management in 2003, National Key Discipline of Higher Education in 2007, Center for Post-doctorial Studies in 2007, one of the first Pilot Units of Education PhD in 2009, and First-level Discipline Doctorial Program in 2011.
So far,the School of Education has established Research Institute of Higher Education, Research Institute of Institutions, Research Institute of Educational Economy, Research Institute of Education, Research Institute of Psychology, Editorial Office of Research on Higher Education, and Editorial Office of Research in Higher Education of Engineering; has set up Research Center for Institutional Development, Research Center for Regional Higher Educational Development, HUST’s Think-Tank Institute of Higher Education Development Policies, Research Center for Innovative Education & Critical Thinking, Analysis & Consulting Center for Teaching and Learning Big Data of Chinese Universities.We recruit and cultivate Academic Doctorial Candidates in 4 Second-level Disciplines of Higher Education, Educational Economy & Management, Principles of Education and Educational Psychology; Education PhD in Educational Leadership & Management and Students Development & Education; Academic Master’s Candidates in 5 Second-level Disciplines of Higher Education, Educational Economy & Management, Principles of Education, Curriculum & Teaching Methodology and Educational Psychology;Full-time Master of Education in Educational Management and Education of Science & Technology; andNon-full-time Master of Education in Educational Management.
Adhering to the path of development toward educational disciplines different from normal universities, and focusing on exploring the experiences of science and engineering in the development of educational disciplines,the School of Education, as a domestic leader of research in the cultural quality education of college students, is the Chairman and Secretary General Units of Steering Committee of Culture-based Quality Education forUniversityStudents of the Ministry of Education.As a domestic pioneer advocating research in institutional research,the School of Education has founded and established Society of Research of Universities of China Association of Higher Education.In 1986,the School of Education created China’s first platform for communications of research in higher education (Seminar on National College Educational Thoughts). Since the end of 2010, The School of Education has taken charge of Professional Committee of Higher Education of China Association of Higher Education, and made fruitful achievements in promoting international and domestic academic exchanges.
Looking forward, we’ll take advantage of superior resources for construction of “double first-class” institution, strengthen introduction of academic talents, rely on medium-sized and team-based faculty in high international level, continue to maintain our development ideas of emphasizing application, focusing on transformation of research findings and social service, while taking into account serving HUST and meeting major national and regional requirements for educational reform and development, speed up reform talents training model, enhance talents training quality with great efforts, take initiative to extend the research on Higher Education in Engineering, course teaching and study of disciplines, strive to achieve the goal of preponderant and featured disciplines reaching first-rate international level, and become a domestic leader in terms of overall strength in other disciplines.