A few days ago, the Department of Education of Hubei Province announced the 2023 general college enrollment brochure, clarifying that Wuhan Textile University and Wuhan University of Light Industry two public undergraduate colleges and universities will stop enrollment, which has triggered widespread attention and discussion on "Is the college to college cool". People are very concerned: has the special book cooled down? What do all parties think about the craze? (China Youth Daily, May 5)
If we look at the fact that some colleges and universities have stopped the enrollment of junior colleges, "the junior college is cold" is by no means sensational. However, the "cool" is only the supply side, especially the supply of some well-known universities, on the demand side, the college is still hot, for many college students, the college is still an important opportunity for them to rewrite the college entrance examination failure, and even the fate of life.
On the one hand, the reason why there is an imbalance in the supply of junior college students is that, in order to optimize the source of students and strive for first-class or reduce the pressure of school teaching and management, some undergraduate colleges have adjusted the focus of enrollment to the general college entrance examination enrollment, reducing the number of students enrolled in the college entrance examination or even directly stopping this work; On the other hand, because a large number of junior college students are not respected enough, whether in the workplace or social recognition, they hope to achieve "class crossing" through post-secondary education.
The right of undergraduate institutions to self-sponsorship should be respected, and the desire and strong demand of junior college students to receive undergraduate education should not be ignored. This requires that undergraduate colleges and universities cannot simply stop the work of post-secondary education, and may wish to reserve a window for junior college students to continue their studies under the premise of conditions permitting. In addition, it is necessary to further strengthen the layout of vocational undergraduate education, so that the channels for upgrading vocational education qualifications are more abundant and diversified.
Whether it is a college or a vocational undergraduate, after all, the resources are limited, and it is impossible to meet the wishes of all junior college students to receive undergraduate education, otherwise, the original purpose of establishing and opening specialized education will be lost. Therefore, while optimizing supply-side reform, we should also guide and divert the demand side, so that more students can feel at ease in studying at the specialist level. Of course, such guidance and diversion cannot be successful with a few big ideas, but there must be concrete measures. Some junior college students are keen on post-secondary education because they feel that their status is not high, the society is not recognized, and they may not have the qualifications to participate in the recruitment examination of civil servants and public institutions, and some feel that specialized education does not teach them the core skills that connect well with the workplace, so they have to seek better educational opportunities through post-secondary education.
This requires the whole society to constantly change the stereotype and prejudice cognition of "inferior" in college and vocational education, and try to realize that there is no distinction between high and low in specialist education and undergraduate education, but the focus of talent training is different, and in the civil service recruitment and other examinations, some positions may also try to cancel the requirement of "bachelor degree or above", take the lead in reversing the bad atmosphere of academic prejudice and even discrimination, so that specialized education can be truly recognized and recognized.
Judging from media reports, majors with strong willingness to advance to higher education are usually concentrated in non-real economy majors with fierce homogenization competition, which shows that vocational colleges and universities have not done a good job in integrating industry and education and school-enterprise cooperation. If junior college students can achieve "recruitment is recruitment, graduation is employment", I believe that there will not be a large number of students to squeeze the difficulty of the college entrance examination college entrance examination "single wooden bridge". It can be seen that the key to cooling down the cost of college upgrading is still in "college", junior colleges should closely follow the needs of society in professional settings, and they cannot "undergraduate college education" in talent training, and they cannot turn junior colleges into undergraduate "preparatory schools" in teaching.
Achieving a balance between supply and demand for post-secondary education is related to the vital interests of a large number of junior college students, and is also related to whether vocational education can achieve benign and healthy development.
Xia Xiongfei Source: China Youth Daily