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Strengthening of the cultivation of students’ business and management ability through higher architectural education against the background of “excellence program”

Jiao Yinghui, Li Huan

Outstanding engineering talents should be equipped with certain business knowledge and good organization and management ability. “A Plan for Educating and Training Outstanding Engineers” which is short for “Excellence Program” implemented by Chinese Ministry of Education and relevant department and industry associations aims to cultivate outstanding engineering talents. Architecture is one of majors which are supported by the plan. Higher architectural education should further impart business and management knowledge into students and cultivate their ability and train the talents with strong comprehensive quality for society. The paper tries to make discussions from two aspects, namely the thought and specific measures of educational reform. The measures include the reform of curriculum system and teaching methods and enhancing the cooperation between industries and enterprises in practical aspect, so as to provide suggestions and reference for universities to cultivate the outstanding engineering talents who meet market demand