vocational education major update rate exceeds 70%, the number of enrollment in higher vocational schools has nearly doubled, the number of internship and training bases jointly built with enterprises has increased by 8.6% per year, secondary and higher vocational schools (excluding technical school ) have trained a total of more than 79 million graduates, and 25 " Luban Workshop " have been established overseas... The latest data from the Ministry of Education shows that my country's vocational education reform and development has achieved remarkable results in the past ten years.
From clarifying the positioning and responsibilities of vocational education to accelerating the top-level design of the modern vocational education system; from comprehensively deepening the integration of industry and education in and school-enterprise cooperation, to actively serving economic and social development; from helping "everyone becomes a talent" to serving "everyone is brilliant", my country's vocational education has achieved historic achievements in the new era and achieved leapfrog development.
Positioning responsibilities are clearer
0 The "White Paper on the Development of Vocational Education in China" recently released by the Ministry of Education pointed out that entering a new era, the Chinese government attaches great importance to vocational education and places vocational education in a more prominent position in economic and social development and educational reform and innovation.
This is the "White Paper on the Development of Vocational Education in China" (photo taken on August 20, 2022) taken at the closing ceremony of the first World Vocational and Technical Education Development Conference held in Tianjin. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Fanyue
Director of the Vocational Education Research Center of the National College of Education Administration Xing Hui said that over the past ten years, the Party and the government have a long-term vision and raised the flag to target, and have cared for vocational education.
From 2014 to convene a national vocational education work conference, the State Council issued the " Decision on Accelerating the Development of Modern Vocational Education "; by 2019, the State Council issued the "National Vocational Education Reform Implementation Plan"; by 2021, the National Vocational Education Conference, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Modern Vocational Education", vocational education in the new era continues to increase policy supply and innovate institutional design.
"Vocational education is an important part of the national education system and human resources development . It shoulders the important responsibility of cultivating diversified talents, inheriting technical skills, and promoting employment and entrepreneurship. This is a major conclusion made by the Party Central Committee in the new era. Over the past decade, a series of deepening reform measures in the field of vocational education have been revolved around this." said Zeng Tianshan, deputy director and researcher of , Vocational Education Development Center of the Ministry of Education.
This is the Luban Workshop Construction and Achievement Exhibition filmed at the World Vocational Education Industry-Education Integration Expo held in Tianjin (photo taken on August 19, 2022). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ran
education system is more complete
update vocational education major catalog, design and build vocational school system and national teaching standard system that runs vertically through "secondary vocational colleges-higher vocational colleges- vocational undergraduate ", carry out pilot projects of apprenticeship system and industry-education integration cities, and build a national professional teaching resource library for vocational education... In line with the new responsibilities and missions, over the past ten years, my country has always regarded the construction of a complete system as the core task and logical main line of development of vocational education.
"Vocational education is half of the country's high school education and higher education. Talking about the modernization and high-quality development of education, it is impossible to leave vocational education." In the view of Deans of the National Vocational Education Research Institute of Beijing Normal University, and Zhen, after ten years of hard work, a modern vocational education system with Chinese characteristics has basically been formed.
Now, the basic status of secondary vocational colleges has been further consolidated, the main position of junior colleges and higher vocational colleges has been continuously strengthened, and the traction of vocational undergraduate education has been continuously strengthened. Through vocational education, our country is continuously cultivating high-quality technical and skilled talents.
At the Vocational and Technical Education Center of Jingxing County, Shijiazhuang City, teachers guide students to learn robot-related knowledge (photo taken on May 14, 2022). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Luo Xuefeng
"The modern vocational education system is becoming more perfect and the hierarchical structure is more complete." Xing Hui gave an example, "Secondary vocational education and junior college higher vocational education are no longer education with the end of academic qualifications. They can not only be directly connected, but also be integrated with vocational bachelor's degree or above. The integration of vocational and general education, integration of education and training, credit banking, etc. have widened and extended the path of students to become successful, and better meet the students' "having a job, a path to further education, a foundation for continuing development, and an advantage in entrepreneurship.""
type characteristics are more distinctive
On May 1 this year, the long-planned new vocational education law was officially implemented. "Vocational education is an education type with the same importance as general education" was clarified in the form of law for the first time.
"Clearing the characteristics of vocational education types is a major innovation in my country's educational theory. "Zeng Tianshan believes that the transformation of vocational education from a reference to a relatively independent education type is conducive to solving the problem of "how to cultivate people" in vocational education.
At Tianjin Vocational and Technical Normal University , the teacher led Han Shilan (first from right) and other international students to conduct practical training operations (photo taken on July 29, 2022). Han Shilan, 38, is from Ethiopia . Three years ago, he came to Tianjin to pursue a doctorate in education at Tianjin Vocational and Technical Normal University. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ran
is based on practical characteristics and closely connects with the national major strategies, industrial upgrading and technological change trends to adjust vocational education majors; emphasizes openness and encourages industry and enterprises to actively organize and deeply participate in diversified schools; deepens professional characteristics, strengthens the "dual-teacher" teacher team, deepens the integration of industry and education, and school-enterprise cooperation - Over the past ten years, the characteristics of vocational education have been continuously optimized, becoming one of the major achievements in the field of vocational education.
At present, the proportion of "dual-teacher" teachers among vocational education professional courses has exceeded half; the national group More than 1,500 vocational education groups (alliance), more than 3,000 industry-education integration enterprises have been cultivated, and 21 industry-education integration cities have been piloted. Vocational schools and enterprises have jointly built 24,900 internship and training bases, and the modern apprenticeship program covers more than 1,000 professional points, benefiting more than 100,000 students (apprentices).
"Further deepening the characteristic school management model of vocational education will help produce more practical talents, improve workers' skills, meet the needs of enterprises, and benefit from multiple parties. "He Zhen said.
serves economic and social development more prominently
runs vocational education well, ultimately to promote employment and entrepreneurship, help economic and social development, and enhance people's well-being.
Hezhen believes that the historic changes in my country's economy and society in the new era and the historic achievements have provided huge demand and solid conditions for the development of vocational education; on the other hand, the high-quality technical and skilled talents provided by vocational education have strongly supported the development of economic and social development.
my country has more than 29.15 million students in vocational schools. Vocational schools across the country have opened more than 1,300 majors and more than 120,000 professional points, basically covering all areas of the national economy. In the fields of modern manufacturing , strategic emerging industries and modern service industries, more than 70% of the new front-line practitioners are from vocational college graduates. Over the past ten years, secondary and higher vocational schools have trained about 10 million high-quality technical and skilled talents every year.
In Xi'an Railway Vocational and Technical College , students conduct practical training exercises for EMU driving and application in class (photo taken on April 29, 2022). Xinhua News Agency reporter Photo by Li Yibo
"Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Modern Vocational Education" proposes that by 2035, the social status of technical and skilled talents will be greatly improved, and the supply of vocational education is highly matched with the demand for economic and social development, and its role in 's comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country has been significantly enhanced.
"Vocational education for everyone provides talent and skill support for a skilled society, which is indispensable and irreplaceable. "Xing Hui said.
Digital media major of Shexian Vocational Education Center, Handan City, Hebei Province, under the guidance of a teacher, learn post-production editing of film and television (photo taken on May 24, 2021). Xinhua News Agency (photo taken by Hao Qunying)