Try "civil integration" to cultivate high-end technical talents
These high-quality private universities are expected to become China’s "Ivy"
Speaking of the eight prestigious universities of the American Ivy League, almost no one knows them, but they are all private universities. Similarly, the well-known Stanford University is also from a "private" background. Large consortia and capitalists donate to run schools and provide high-quality resources for education, which is very common in developed countries.
With the rise of China's economy, more and more entrepreneurs have dreams of education and are eager to establish first-class private universities in China and become China's "Ivy." Tencent founded Wuhan College, Country Garden Real Estate founded Guangdong Country Garden Vocational College, Geely founded Geely College and Sanya College, Beitou Group founded Yenching Institute of Technology...These private enterprises set foot in higher education and create high-quality applied technology universities. Where did it originate? When public colleges and universities try to integrate with private colleges and universities, will there be "unacceptable"? How to focus on the cultivation of high-level talents and build a "talent chain" for modern enterprises?
Modern service transformation and development
Urgent need for a large number of technical talents
Nowadays, a new round of industrial transformation represented by intelligent manufacturing is developing rapidly. Digitization, networking, and intelligence have increasingly become the main trends in global manufacturing. China has formed an industrial pattern with high-tech industries as the forerunner, basic industries and manufacturing as the support, and comprehensive development of the service industry.
In order to comply with the global economic development trend, my country's national qualifications framework is in the process of construction, and the transformation and development of industries and modern service industries that the state supports urgently need a large number of applied technology talents.
"Faced with the cultivation of modern high-end technical talents, applied universities and vocational colleges will become the unshirkable participants." Associate Professor Zhou Xiang of the School of Education of Renmin University of China said that in the process of running applied technology universities, if there are opportunities and high-quality academic resources The combination of resources from research institutes and leading enterprises will make the school itself not only the provider and setter of the qualifications framework, but also the implementer and practitioner of the qualifications framework.
Today, the scale of my country's manufacturing industry has leapt to number one in the world, and a complete, independent and complete manufacturing system has been established. However, the existing high-end technical talents are still in a tight state, so it is time for private colleges and universities to make use of their own school-running characteristics.
"Many companies that invest in private universities usually invest their own industry characteristics and resources in running schools, and most of these companies are characterized by applied technology. This is where private universities have advantages. Ordinary research universities are Talent training is very weak, or lack of experience.” Zhou Xiang said frankly that if private colleges and universities want to achieve results, they must serve the special requirements of national strategy and regional economic development and provide talent training services for the overall industry upgrade.
"Citizen Integration" attempts to break through
Beware of "unacceptable" in running schools
Recently, a piece of news was published in the media that Geely College and Peking University signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. Peking University will give Geely College strong support in discipline and professional construction, faculty, scientific research innovation, and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Supported by the national double-class universities in running schools, it can be described as a breakthrough attempt for private universities.
"This is a breakthrough attempt for the integration of public universities and private universities. The education sector is full of expectations for the cooperation of two different types of universities. This is not only a model of the Ministry of Education's support for university education reform, but also a demonstration of the world's top universities. The position, overall structure, and unique responsibility have effectively solved the pain points of private universities." Ma Xuelei, vice president of Beijing Private Education Association, said bluntly that as a private university, the ability of teachers is one of the key points of the quality of running a school. For example, teachers in Geely College can both give lectures on the platform and become engineers in the workshop. Such dual-qualified teachers are not available in ordinary research universities, and private universities need to focus on the design of the structure when cultivating the teaching staff.
In the process of "civil integration", how will Peking University support Geely College in terms of school operation management, discipline and professional construction, curriculum system construction, teacher team construction, management personnel training, scientific research and innovation, transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and think tanks? The key points and difficulties of running a school repeatedly explored by universities.
"It is not recommended to copy the school-running model of a traditional research university to private universities, otherwise it is prone to'unacceptable' because of the different types of students and teachers." Ma Xuelei said with emotion, if the case of Geely College is successfully operated, it will undoubtedly be run by other public institutions in China. Colleges and universities try to cooperate with private colleges and universities to set a landmark example.
Focus on high-level talent training
Build a modern enterprise "talent chain"
In recent years, my country has focused on the application of the integration of industry and education in the field of education, and issued important policy documents such as "Several Opinions on Deepening the Integration of Industry and Education", but the integration of industry and education has indeed encountered various practical problems and resistances. At the same time, the distance between research universities, research institutes and the market has gradually increased. Therefore, under this circumstance, private colleges and universities have become an intermediate force that effectively connects the market and the industry frontier.
In 2013, Mr. Chen Yidan stepped down as Tencent's Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and promised to open a non-profit private university without taking a cent from the school; Guangdong Country Garden Vocational College is a charitable private university; Geely 23 Established 9 colleges and universities each year, insisting on taking education as a public welfare undertaking, without financial return... These entrepreneurs who have a special liking for education do not aim at making profits, but to train a group of high-end technical talents from big countries. Targeting skilled craftsmen, focusing on the cultivation of high-level applied talents.
"Through the introduction of high-quality academic resources for teacher training, the improvement of the theoretical literacy and independent innovation ability of the teacher group is conducive to further improving the academic level of the teaching of private colleges and universities." Zhou Xiang believes that high-quality private colleges can not only train a group of students that meet the modern market The craftsmen in need also have the ability to train students into engineers, which inspires the potential of every professional.
Detailed analysis said that enterprises are end users of the human resources market, and each individual exerts initiative and creativity based on different types of enterprise organizations, and creates social value while realizing self-worth. More and more powerful companies are participating in the founding of colleges and universities. The purpose is to shorten the distance between talent training and talent use, break the gap between market demand and talent training, and put the comprehensive ability or general ability of talents required by modern enterprise organizations on campus Effective cultivation.
"Students who have been well-trained during their school years can display and enhance their maximum human efficiency by simply undergoing adaptability training after entering the workplace. This has also become an inevitable requirement for education supply-side reform." Ma Xuelei said , Enterprise organizations, especially leading enterprises participating in the education link, can better base themselves on the "industrial chain" and build a "talent chain", which becomes an important manifestation of the social responsibility of modern enterprise organizations. Text/Cao Yang