"Undergraduate Nanny" is really here!
News from our newspaper (reporter Qian Peijian) On December 13th, Shanghai Open University’s first undergraduate admissions for home economics was officially launched. The first batch of enrollment will be around 50 next spring. The courses include Introduction to Home Economics, Introduction to Family Studies, Home Economics Management, etc. High-level domestic professional professionals who combine theory and practice.
Statistics show that there are currently about 500,000 domestic workers in Shanghai, and the annual market size is about 30 billion yuan.
With the iterative upgrade of the housekeeping market, the market size is expected to exceed 60 billion yuan.
However, the domestic market is facing a shortage of professionals.
Experts predict that in the next five years, there will be a gap of 200,000 high-level domestic professionals.
At present, the existing professional education of housekeeping services cannot meet the market needs in terms of academic level, enrollment scale, and training path.
"The prospects for undergraduate education in home economics is very broad." said Lu Qi, dean of the School of Public Administration at Shanghai Open University and head of the undergraduate home economics major. The major in domestic economics pays more attention to the teaching of skills, such as cooking, flower arranging and other housekeeping service skills, while the undergraduate degree emphasizes theory. Combination with practice.
It is reported that as the first adult university in the country to offer a home economics undergraduate, Shanghai Open University has an 8-year history of running a college in home economics and management. It has enrolled 2,550 students and more than 1,400 graduates. It has a "university + platform + system". The comprehensive advantages of running a school.
Qian Peijian