Cadre educating and training is the pilot, fundamental, strategic project in constructing the highly qualified contingent of cadres, as well as the important approaches and measures to strengthen the Communist Party of China’s construction of governance capability and progressiveness. It is also related to the overall work of the Communist Party of China and the whole nation. Thus, how to try our best to create a new situation of cadre educating and training in institutions of higher education becomes the new task for both the administration and institutions of cadre educating and training. This paper, choosing the urgent need of highly qualified contingent of cadres in institutions of higher education under the new period and new situation as a starting point, analyzes the existing conditions and current problems in the work of cadre educating and training in institutions of higher education since the reform and opening up. Also, through analysis and research on the concept, mechanism and operation mode of educating and training, this paper explores the basic countermeasures of improving the level of scientification and standardization of cadre educating and training in institutions of higher education.