International Journal of Education

Graduate education bears the mission of nurturing high-caliber innovative talents, with ideological and political education constituting an essential component of it. As the two main bodies of graduate education in universities, graduate tutors and counselors play crucial roles in providing ideological instruction, academic guidance, psychological guidance, behavior guidance and employment guidance through both the first classroom (formal education) and the second classroom (extra-curricular activities). Their collaborative efforts in educating students can create a synergistic advantage where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts (1+1>2), which holds profound significance for implementing the fundamental task of cultivating students with moral integrity, improving the quality of talent cultivation, and promoting social development. Starting from the characteristics of the graduate student group, graduate supervisors, and graduate counselors in the new era, and by reviewing the current status of collaborative education between supervisors and counselors, this paper proposes a trinity implementation plan for collaborative education between graduate supervisors and counselors, which includes: clarifying job responsibilities, strengthening integrated management; building communication platforms, forming interactive mechanisms; improving the evaluation system, and implementing reward and punishment systems. This plan aims to continuously improve the quality of graduate cultivation and achieve sustainable development of the graduate student group.

Graduate tutors; Counselors; Collaborative education; Mechanism research