China News Agency, Beijing, March 7th: What are the new ways to make education "communicative", "fragrant", and "new"?
China News Agency reporter Bo Wenwen Lang Jiahui
Education is the foundation.
"Promote the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education and the integration of urban and rural areas, vigorously develop vocational education, and promote innovation in higher education" was included in this year's government work report.
The National Two Sessions are being held, and how to solve education-related issues such as the inability to retain rural teachers, discrimination in vocational colleges, and employment difficulties for college graduates has attracted attention. Many representatives and committee members actively offered advice and suggestions on this.
Data map: The No. 42 Primary School in Urumqi, Xinjiang, students are waiting to receive new textbooks.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Xin
Integrate the teaching staff to make rural education "common"
The government work report pointed out that in the past five years, China has continued to strengthen the construction of weak links in rural compulsory education, and guaranteed the salaries and benefits of teachers, especially rural teachers.
The "Report on the Implementation of the Rural Revitalization Strategic Plan (2018-2022)" shows that the proportion of full-time teachers in rural compulsory education schools with a bachelor's degree or above has reached 72.23%.
"Rural teachers are the 'first responsible persons' for the high-quality development of rural education. Only by helping more young teachers to grow into excellent teachers can children in the mountains get a better education." Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and an experimenter in Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province According to Lan Zhen, secretary of the primary school party committee, in order to move education from basic balance to high-quality balance, it is necessary to inject vitality into rural education from the cultivation of famous teacher resources and the construction of school culture.
How to build a team of rural teachers who can "go down, stay, and teach well"?
Nong Jiagui, a deputy to the National People's Congress and a teacher at Luosongdi Primary School in Liancheng Township, Guangnan County, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that he hopes to strengthen the construction of hardware facilities for the education of ethnic minorities in the border areas and effectively improve the treatment of rural teachers.
He suggested that excellent teachers should be rotated regularly in rural schools, so that old rural teachers can learn advanced teaching concepts.
At the same time, normal students are encouraged to give priority to internships in schools in remote mountainous areas, and multiple measures are taken to improve the quality of rural teachers.
Empowerment of digital technology makes vocational education "fragrant"
China's newly revised Vocational Education Law in 2022 clearly states that vocational education is a type of education that has the same important status as general education.
Currently, digital technology is reconstructing the vocational education ecology.
The "Occupational Classification of the People's Republic of China (2022 Edition)" added the "digital occupation" logo for the first time, marking a total of 97 digital occupations, and the number of newly added digital occupations accounted for 61% of the number of newly added occupations.
Weng Tiehui, vice-minister of China's Ministry of Education, said at a forum last month that China has set up vocational education digital campuses, informatization benchmark schools, professional teaching resource banks, high-quality online open courses and other related projects, and has built a resource-sharing "National Vocational Education The smart education platform has laid a solid foundation for promoting the deep integration of digital technology and vocational education, and improving the quality of technical and skilled personnel training in the digital era.
Zhang Yunkai, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice president of Hebei Communication Vocational and Technical College, said that it is necessary to vigorously promote the digital transformation of education in local education administrative departments and vocational schools, further improve the construction of the "National Vocational Education Smart Education Platform", improve access standards, and gather More high-quality digital resources, improve the online credit mutual recognition mechanism, and serve more schools, students and social learners.
Su Hua, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of the China Vocational Education Association, suggested that the reform of the "knowledge + skills" vocational education college entrance examination system should be continuously deepened, the enrollment scale of vocational education undergraduates should be expanded, and the "ceiling" for the growth of skilled talents should be broken, so that vocational education students " There is a good way to go to school, a good job, and a good way to start a business.”
Docking cutting-edge needs, making higher education "new"
In recent years, the Chinese Ministry of Education has deepened the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities through six measures: building bases, setting standards, focusing on courses, strengthening teachers, promoting policies, and strengthening practices.
Aiming at the employment difficulties of college graduates, Wang Zhongliang, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice president of Tianjin Urban Construction University, told reporters that the innovation of higher education cannot be done behind closed doors, but should be combined with the cutting-edge needs of society and the country to avoid disconnection between curriculum setting and social development.
"It is necessary to organically connect the discipline professional chain with the talent chain, innovation chain and industrial chain." Wang Hua, deputy to the National People's Congress and president of Kunming University of Science and Technology, introduced to reporters that under the upsurge of artificial intelligence, Kunming University of Science and Technology adjusted its professional settings in time to create artificial intelligence. Major, "to train a student, more than a dozen units outside are scrambling for it."
"With the support of the Ministry of Education, the School of Artificial Intelligence Industry was established. Our school has experienced closed training of a single discipline, breaking the boundaries of disciplines and majors, interdisciplinary joint training of multiple disciplines, and realizing joint training with leading or key enterprises in the industry. The practice of talent reform.” Wang Hua said that through the integration of industry and education, more applied innovative talents that meet social needs can be cultivated.
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