(Observation of the Two Sessions) How can China's vocational education meet the challenges better with the huge demand for high-skilled manpower?
China News Service, Beijing, March 8th. Question: How can China's vocational education meet the challenges better with the huge demand for high-skilled manpower?
China News Agency reporter Yang Chengchen An Yingzhao
In recent years, the number of college graduates in China has repeatedly hit new highs. College students and even postgraduate qualifications are no longer the "golden key" in the job market; some skilled and high-quality vocational education graduates "counterattack", with salary and social status exceeding the former.
In 2019, the "National Vocational Education Reform Implementation Plan" was implemented, and vocational education ushered in an opportunity for development.
After nearly two years of hard work, the vocational education reform has been broken one by one.
At the same time, problems such as insufficient funding for disciplines, not many types of disciplines, and insufficient social attention need to be solved urgently. The bottleneck faced by vocational education is still obvious.
During the National People's Congress and CPPCC National People's Congress this year, many representatives of the National People's Congress and CPPCC members put forward suggestions on the development of vocational education and applied universities.
"Good employment" should become a sign of vocational education
"Vocational education is a type of education with a professional background and a position as the goal. It is the most direct and most closely integrated education with the development of enterprises, industries, and economic society." Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Vice President of the Chinese Vocational Education Association, Xinyu The principal of the college, Zhang Yuqing, told a reporter from China News Agency that to promote industrial upgrading and high-quality economic development requires a large number of high-quality technical and technical talents to support.
If the modern vocational education system is not perfect, it is impossible to cultivate a large number of high-quality technical and technical personnel.
There are about 1,400 vocational colleges in China, but there are only 22 undergraduate-level vocational schools approved by the state so far, of which there is only one public school.
Zhang Yuqing’s proposals for two consecutive years call for the promotion of the construction of vocational undergraduates and the strong promotion of pilot integration of general jobs.
Educational evaluation methods need to be adjusted urgently
Many members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference working in universities in the education sector also called for the construction of a classified management education high-quality evaluation system without delay.
Zhang Yuqing said that for vocational education to usher in the spring, the bottleneck of the "weak and small" vocational undergraduates must be eliminated, and the enthusiasm of local governments, schools, enterprises, students, parents, and society must be mobilized.
He specifically mentioned that public opinion orientation should not over-respect "college entrance examination rankings" and "college rankings". "Score-only theory" and "Ranking-only theory" will aggravate the imbalance of some people when they look at vocational education.
Zhang Renliang, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the president of the Education University of Hong Kong, said that different universities in Hong Kong have different standards for teaching evaluation. Each school usually sets its own goals and accepts rewards and penalties based on this goal a few years later.
Zhang Yuqing believes that such an approach is of reference significance. “Only by adjusting the evaluation method can the school run the school solidly and the students have a clear future direction.”
Vocational education effectively prevents poverty from "passing on from generation to generation"
From comprehensive poverty alleviation to consolidation of achievements, and effective connection with rural revitalization, cultivating talents is the key.
Studies have shown that skill breakage and difficulty in employment are important sources of individual poverty and return to poverty.
"Vocational education focuses on practical skills training, and has the characteristics of'uprooting the poor' and effectively blocking the intergenerational transmission of poverty." Li Xiaoxuan, deputy to the National People's Congress and executive principal of Yunnan Institute of Business and Technology, proposed to establish a "recruitment" and "inclined enrollment" system for vocational education. The system ensures that students from poor marginalized groups and students from families prone to return to poverty can improve their education levels to a greater extent and to a greater extent.
Jiang Tao, deputy to the National People’s Congress and monitor of the Aerospace Jiangnan Non-ferrous Metal Welding Team affiliated to China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, also said that increasing support for vocational skills education, especially for related schools in the western region, will enable more poor people to pass skills training. Get rich.
How to make your hometown a place where you can go back and wish to go back?
Vocational education may provide some solutions.
"Many people have not fully realized that there are vacancies in the grassroots posts in towns and villages." Zhang Yuqing believes that by filling the vacancies in the system and enabling more young people to benefit from vocational education, can the division of labor in society be realized more rationally at all levels of employment. All make the best use of others.
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