New Observations on Education丨What is “new” about the integration of industry and education?
On November 23, Shanghai Urban Construction Vocational College, Shanghai Normal University, and China Unicom Industrial Internet Co., Ltd. jointly took the lead in establishing the future city and smart operation industry-education integration community. This nationwide industry-education integration community has attracted people from the entire property management industry. Upstream and downstream enterprises, as well as colleges and universities offering relevant majors in various regions join.
No coincidence. Not long ago, Shanghai Business School established a national pan-hotel industry industry-education integration community, Nanhu Vocational and Technical School established a national intelligent new energy automobile industry industry-education integration community...Many higher vocational colleges and applied universities have established industry-education integration communities. So, what is “new” about these industry-education integration communities? How is it different from previous industrial colleges? Industry experts said that compared with industrial colleges, the industry-education integration community is not just a name change, nor can it be established at once. What is done next is the key.
"The previous 'industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation' had certain limitations, especially in terms of breadth and depth, and it was not strong enough, so a new way is needed to improve it." Huang, dean of the School of Urban Operations and Management of Shanghai Urban Construction Vocational College Professor Liang explained the original intention of establishing an industry-education integration community.
Take the property management major as an example. This is a major for urban construction facilities and urban services. The industry has great demand, but some information needs are relatively closed. For example, some foreign companies need a large number of talents, but schools and students in Shanghai are not very clear about this demand; or there is a gap in the talents trained by local schools, but companies do not know that schools in surrounding cities have such a supply of talents. Through the construction of an industry-education integration community, the upstream and downstream of the entire industry chain can be opened up, information asymmetry can be broken, information, resources, and collaboration can be brought closer, and the depth and breadth of cooperation can be further expanded. Compared with the original relatively single "industry-education integration" ", school-enterprise cooperation" is richer in content and more effective.
Another example is the National Intelligent New Energy Automobile Industry Industry-Education Integration Community, which is jointly led by SAIC Motor Corporation, Tongji University and Shanghai Nanhu Vocational and Technical College. It has attracted relevant enterprises, colleges, industries and scientific research institutions in the intelligent new energy automobile industry. Units join. Xu Nianfeng, secretary-general of the Automotive Industry Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, said that such a broader industry-education integration community is to gather resources in the education industry and solve the problems of insufficient school-enterprise cooperation, insufficient inter-school collaboration, insufficient service industry capabilities, and student development. Provide effective paths for problems such as restrictions.
In terms of talent training, the industry-education integration community can integrate the job needs of the entire industry chain more broadly, making it easier for colleges and universities to adjust talent training plans in a timely manner according to needs. Professor Huang Liang explained that in the past, talent training often lagged behind the actual needs of enterprises. For example, it was difficult to imagine that property management needed talents with digital technology and thinking such as data analysts, park solution solvers, and low-carbon operators to establish an industry-education community. Finally, the company's information can also be integrated in a timely manner, and the school can promptly grasp the company's demand information and adjust its own talent training plan. Therefore, the Future City and Smart Operations Industry-Education Integration Community releases a talent development report every year to analyze and organize the talent information of enterprises and guide colleges and universities to carry out adjustments, innovations and reforms in talent training.
The establishment of the industry-education integration community will improve geographical restrictions and quantity restrictions, extend to the upstream and downstream chains of the entire industry, and extend to enterprises and schools in various regions, making them more closely integrated. As far as a certain school is concerned, it is impossible to train all the professional talents needed in the entire industry chain, but it can carry out talent training based on the advantages of its own school and the characteristics of regional demand. At the same time, the particularity of regional needs can also be shared and discussed in the community to promote the improvement and differentiated cultivation of talents in the entire industry.
In fact, how effective is the industry-education integration community? The key is how to do it in the future? Only through real communication, linkage, and integration can energy efficiency be achieved in a wider scope and at a deeper level. The national pan-hotel industry industry-education integration community was established by Jin Jiang International and Shanghai Business School and member units from 13 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country. Based on the upstream and downstream distribution of the industry chain and the layout of educational resources in the hotel industry, it builds the supply and demand of industry and education. mechanism. Yang Weiren, the second-level inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Education and Health Work Party Committee, suggested that joint enrollment between schools and enterprises can be promoted through the community, special training programs such as entrusted training and order training can be carried out, and mutual employment of teachers between schools and enterprises can be implemented, and industrial application technology and Integrate processes and standards into teaching practice, develop professional core courses and practical ability projects, etc. Wu Yingce, deputy secretary-general of the China Higher Education Society, suggested that under the leadership of leading enterprises, vocational education and higher education should "go overseas" with the innovation community operating mechanism to further promote the internationalization and digital transformation and upgrading of the pan-hotel industry.
