``Sixty Articles on Work in Institutions of Higher Learning'' refers to the 60-article ``Draft Provisional Regulations for Work in the Institutions of Higher Learning Directly Under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China'', which was approved in principle by the Central Committee in September 1961. The regulations summed up the experience -- both positive and negative -- in higher education in the three years following 1958. In view of major problems such as the lowered quality of teaching, neglect of the role of the intellectuals and too much physical labour, they stipulated that the institutions of higher learning must make teaching their main task and strive to raise the quality of education; actively participate in scientific research; correctly implement the Party's policy towards the intellectuals and its policy of ``letting a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend''; practise the system of the school administrative committee headed by the president assuming overall responsibility under the leadership of the school's Party committee; manage general affairs well so as to ensure the material conditions necessary for teaching and the daily life of the staff and students; and improve the method and style of Party leadership and strengthen ideological-political work.