Journal of Higher Education Research

Assistance-based education is an essential educational initiative aimed at nurturing virtue and fostering character. It plays a significant role in safeguarding students' mental health and sound personality development, supporting their growth and success, cultivating their social responsibility and sense of gratitude, and promoting educational equity. Against the background of connotative development in higher education in the new era, "precision ideological and political education," as a teaching concept that adapts to specific circumstances and local conditions, empowers the assistance-based education work of local universities and can achieve twice the result with half the effort. Based on this, guided by the concept of precision ideological and political education and oriented toward cultivating and enhancing students' core literacy, this paper attempts to explore new paths for assistance-based education in local universities. Adopting a research approach that integrates theory with practice and follows a problem-oriented perspective, the paper first conducts an in-depth discussion of the intrinsic logical relationship among precision ideological and political education, core literacy, and assistance-based education; second, it reviews the current implementation status of assistance-based education in local universities and analyzes the existing problems; finally, in response to these problems, it constructs a four-in-one assistance-based education path featuring "precise identification, precise measures, diversified collaboration, and evaluation feedback."