[Endeavoring a new journey and making great achievements in the new era] Breaking the "ceiling" of academic qualifications and removing the "stumbling blocks" of employment
"What attracts me is not only the annual salary of more than 100,000 yuan, but also the good career development prospects of skilled workers in this modern intelligent enterprise." At the beginning of this year, Li Lin received an "olive branch" from a leading company in the machine tool industry in Nanjing.
The Nanjing Industrial Vocational and Technical University, where Li Lin is studying, is the first public vocational undergraduate education pilot school in the country approved by the Ministry of Education in 2019. The first batch of two-year undergraduate students enrolled at the starting point of the junior college will graduate in June this year.
These students were "scrambled" by enterprises before they left the school. The school organized a special job fair for undergraduates a year ago. The average annual salary of the positions provided by the enterprises exceeded 90,000 yuan, and each person received an average of more than 2 enterprise employment notices.
This is a true portrayal of the significant improvement in the quality of vocational education training in recent years.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has attached great importance to the development of vocational education, made important arrangements, established the type status of vocational education, built a modern vocational education system with vertical and horizontal integration, and promoted vocational education in our country. On the fast track of quality improvement and excellence, value-added empowerment, a large number of technical and skilled talents supporting economic and social development have been cultivated.
The "spring" of vocational education undergraduates
"My relatives and friends all said that my original choice was right, and the way out was better than some ordinary undergraduates." Li Lin used his personal experience to change the stereotype of his relatives and friends about the poor career prospects of vocational school graduates.
Going to vocational school was actually Li Lin's passive choice after failing the college entrance examination.
When he first entered school, he was disheartened for a while.
The school teachers helped Li Lin regain his self-confidence. He stopped complaining and began to study hard theory and practical techniques. He obtained the intermediate "X" certificate of industrial robot application programming and industrial robot system integration certificate, and was lucky to catch up with the school's upgrade to A good time for a vocational undergraduate degree to grow into a quasi-skilled person with a bachelor's degree.
Different from Li Lin's passive choice of vocational school, Jiang Yu enrolled in Hebei Vocational and Technical University with a score of more than 20 points higher than the undergraduate admission line last year to study metallurgical technology.
Should you go to a vocational university to study your favorite major, or should you apply for an ordinary university and face the risk of being transferred to a major you are not interested in?
Jiang Yu also hesitated.
When I learned that the iron and steel intelligent metallurgy technology major of Hebei Industrial Vocational and Technical University is a national "double high" key construction major, the faculty, school scale, and graduate employment quality are at the leading level among similar colleges and universities in the country, and the employment prospects of students are good. , he has firmed his choice of vocational undergraduate.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, especially since the introduction of the "National Vocational Education Reform Implementation Plan", my country's vocational education has embarked on the fast track of improving quality, cultivating excellence, and adding value to empowerment, and the training of technical and skilled personnel has made great strides towards high-quality development. step forward.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that we should speed up the construction of a modern vocational education system and cultivate more high-quality technical and skilled talents, skilled craftsmen, and craftsmen of great powers.
This points out the direction for improving the quality and efficiency of vocational education.
In 2019, my country began to pilot vocational undergraduate training, and undergraduate-level vocational education has taken a big step forward.
Today, there are 32 vocational undergraduate schools with 129,000 students.
In order to "snatch up" high-skilled talents with stronger technological innovation ability and more solid theoretical foundation, in June last year, Beijing Jingdiao Technology Group and Nanjing Industrial Vocational and Technical University jointly established Nangong-Beijing Jingdiao College to customize talents for enterprises. Training program, each training about 300 students.
The relevant person in charge of the group told reporters that the group sells about 10,000 units of equipment every year, and needs at least about 5,000 vocational undergraduate talents to adapt each year, and the existing training scale is far from enough.
The "Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Modern Vocational Education" issued by the Central Office and the State Office clearly stated that in 2025, the enrollment scale of vocational undergraduate education should not be less than 10% of the enrollment scale of higher vocational education.
This means that after three years, the enrollment of vocational undergraduate education may reach more than 500,000.
Another 'track' to college
In September last year, Lin Weiwei and his junior high school friend were admitted to the same university.
"I didn't expect that the door that was closed once opened again." She told reporters excitedly.
After graduating from junior high school, Lin Weiwei, who had poor grades, was "shunted" to Qingdao Electronic Technology School, while her friend studied in an ordinary high school step by step.
However, three years later, the two passed the ordinary college entrance examination and the "vocational college entrance examination" respectively, and were admitted to Qingdao University of Science and Technology.
In recent years, many secondary vocational students, like Lin Weiwei, have entered the university through the "vocational education college entrance examination".
Among the more than 13 million vocational students, such stories are increasing.
The construction of a modern vocational education system is based on secondary vocational education.
Promote the diversified development of secondary vocational education, change from being purely employment-oriented to paying equal attention to employment and further education, open up the "dead end" of the development of secondary vocational education, and open up the growth space for secondary vocational students. hot spot.
Since the Ministry of Education issued the "Guiding Opinions on Actively Promoting the Reform of Higher Vocational Education Exam Enrollment System" in 2013, Shandong, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, Fujian, Anhui and other places have carried out pilot projects for the "Vocational Education College Entrance Examination" and achieved Good results and experience.
In 2012, Shandong Province took the lead in establishing the "Vocational Education College Entrance Examination" system of "cultural quality + vocational skills". Now the proportion of secondary vocational students in the province is more than 70%, which has effectively enhanced the attractiveness of vocational education.
Last year, there were 29,500 students who passed the high school entrance examination in Shandong province but chose to attend vocational schools, and 17,000 students studied in general high schools and then transferred to secondary vocational schools.
The problem that "vocational schools can only recruit low-scoring students" has gradually been solved.
Enrollment by examination is the "bull nose" that affects the reform of vocational education.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of my country, on the basis of summarizing local practical experience, our country has gradually improved the top-level design of the "vocational education college entrance examination".
Today, we are promoting the establishment of the “Vocational Education College Entrance Examination” system with provincial overall planning, comprehensive evaluation and multiple admissions, expanding the proportion of vocational undergraduates and vocational colleges who have passed the “Vocational Education College Entrance Examination” and making the “Vocational Education College Entrance Examination” a higher vocational education. Admissions, especially vocational undergraduate schools, are the main channels for admissions.
From secondary vocational education to higher vocational colleges, and then to vocational education at the undergraduate level, the "ceiling" that vocational education stops at the junior college level has been broken, which meets people's diverse needs for more levels of vocational education, the attractiveness of vocational education, and vocational colleges. The vitality of the school is increasing.
Opening up exports to "clear the barriers" for employment
"The recruitment targets are graduates of ordinary colleges and universities and vocational colleges (including technical colleges)" "The recruited personnel are the staff of public institutions and enjoy the remuneration package stipulated by national and provincial policies"... In March this year, I saw the release of Guangdong Province. When the public institution recruitment announcement was made, the fresh graduate Li Mingmin was moved.
Li Mingmin studied at Guangdong Vocational and Technical College of Industry and Trade, where he studied surveying, mapping and geographic information technology. He applied for a surveying and mapping post in a planning surveying and mapping institute in Shantou City.
Li Mingmin has followed his mentor to participate in actual enterprise engineering projects and provincial skills competitions. He is confident in his professional skills, "As long as there is a stage for fair competition, I will dare to try my skills, and I am not afraid to compete with undergraduates from ordinary universities. Compete on the same stage.”
Last year, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued a notice that clearly stated that public recruitment by public institutions shall not use graduate schools, foreign (overseas) study experience, and learning methods as restrictive conditions, and effectively maintain and ensure that graduates of vocational colleges participate in public institutions. Legitimate rights and equal opportunities for open recruitment.
The Academic Degrees Office of the State Council stated that the incorporation of vocational undergraduates into the existing bachelor's degree work system, and the certificates of ordinary undergraduates and vocational undergraduates have the same effect in terms of employment, postgraduate entrance examinations, and public examinations.
A series of policies issued by the state have lowered the threshold of employment restrictions for vocational school students, opened up exports and passed on to the front-end vision, which has made a substantial policy breakthrough in breaking the "ceiling" of vocational education.
Relevant people said that in order for vocational education to be widely recognized by the whole society and become the active choice of parents and students, the key is to improve the social status and remuneration of skilled talents.
Only by allowing skilled talents to have a way out, be promising, be successful, and be brilliant, can the attractiveness of vocational education be fundamentally improved.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the steadily advancing reform of the construction of the industrial workforce has given many industrial workers a real sense of gain.
At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security stated that my country is exploring the establishment of a "new eight-level" vocational skill level system for skilled talents, that is, from low to high, in apprentices, junior workers, intermediate workers, senior workers, technicians, senior workers On the basis of technicians and super technicians, a chief technician is added.
This means that in the near future, the "ceiling" of skilled workers will be further improved, and the career development channel will continue to be "higher".
The road of skilled workers is getting wider and wider, which inspires vocational school students.
"I look forward to growing into a high-skilled talent and working hard to write wonderful stories where skills change life." Looking forward to the future, Jiang Yu is full of confidence.
Yu Zhongning