Guangming Current Review: Promoting the "Double Harvest" Transformation of Vocational Undergraduate Enrollment and Employment into a "Long Harvest" Industry | Colleges | Occupations
Guangming Review
Author: Zhang Yun
According to media reports, Nanjing University of Industry and Technology has added 7 undergraduate majors this year, increasing from 23 to 30. The enrollment plan has reached 6297 people, an increase of over 1100 people from last year; Shenzhen Vocational and Technical University has become a "dark horse" on this year's admission list, with admission scores surpassing some established undergraduate institutions... This year's enrollment season, many vocational undergraduate institutions have added new majors and expanded their enrollment scale and scope. Recently, the latest data released by the Ministry of Education showed that China's vocational undergraduate enrollment in 2022 was 76300, a year-on-year increase of 84.39%.
Not only is it well received in enrollment, but it is also well received in employment. Behind the magic of vocational undergraduate education, it is actually the favorable employment situation of graduates. According to reports, many students from high-quality vocational undergraduate colleges are "reserved" by employers before graduation. The implementation rate of the 2023 undergraduate graduates from vocational and technical universities is nearly 10 percentage points higher than the average of universities in the province. Vocational undergraduate graduates generally exhibit typical characteristics of high technical skills, comprehensive quality, high employment quality, and high social recognition, and are widely favored in the recruitment market.
It can be said that vocational undergraduate education, which has been piloted in China since 2020, has blossomed and produced results, achieving a stage of "double harvest" in enrollment and employment, demonstrating strong vitality. This not only indicates that vocational undergraduate education in China has broad development prospects, but also has enlightening significance for further promoting the high-quality development of vocational undergraduate education. Steadily promoting vocational undergraduate education requires improving quality and striving for excellence.
Adhere to the type positioning of vocational undergraduate education. The vocational undergraduate education in our country has its own typological characteristics. It is neither a copy of applied undergraduate education nor an extended version of vocational education. The cultivation of vocational undergraduate talents starts from the logical starting point of profession, directly starting from specific practical scenarios, and based on practical fields, carries out integrated teaching of theory and practice, composite ability cultivation, complex operation skill training and technical improvement. It emphasizes more on the cultivation of engineering and technical ability to solve practical problems and innovative thinking, highlighting the complexity of technical skills. Specifically, in terms of vocational undergraduate programs in China, the underlying logic of their type positioning is to serve the inherent requirements of high-quality development in the country. It breaks the "ceiling" of vocational education at the vocational level, promotes the transformation of China from a degree oriented society to a skill oriented society, provides high-quality and efficient skill supply for the construction of a modern industrial system, and achieves the goal of "everyone can succeed and everyone can do their best.".
Closely connect with national strategies and regional development needs. At present, China's economy is in a period of transformation of development mode, optimization of economic structure, and transformation of growth momentum, and the demand for high-level technical and skilled talents is more urgent. Vocational undergraduate education must be rooted in key areas, key industries, and strategic emerging industries of China's national economic development, focusing on high-end industries and high-end industries, aligning with national strategies such as comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, and cultivating innovative skilled talents, on-site technical talents, and outstanding engineers that the country urgently needs. At present, some universities rely on their geographical location to promote the construction of regional industry education consortia, improve the integration of educational practices with regional economic and social development, and achieve resonance between universities and industrial layouts; In terms of industrial development, building an industry industry education community to promote seamless coupling between the education chain, talent chain, industry chain, and innovation chain; In terms of talent cultivation, promoting the development of professional disciplines in colleges and universities through the integration of science and education, realizing the linkage and mutual empowerment of multiple sports professionals in schools, enterprises, industries, and other regions as a whole.
Innovative talent cultivation model. Optimize the talent training program, using the national vocational skills standards as a reference frame and scale, and build a modular curriculum system based on scarce talents, strategic emerging industries, and educational characteristics. Flexibly optimize and adjust majors and courses to make the training program match the talent literacy required by actual job positions. To build a high-level teaching staff and collaborative innovation platform, professionals and industry experts with practical work experience can be hired as teachers to jointly carry out technology research and development, product research and development, achievement transformation, project incubation, and social services with enterprises. Some universities have attempted to change the traditional teaching mode by collaborating with leading industry enterprises to develop textbooks, innovate competitions, and conduct experimental training. They have directly introduced the latest technology into the classroom and conducted practical teaching and internship training in real work environments, cultivating students' ability to solve complex problems on the production line. They have achieved the integration of teaching content with higher-level vocational standards, teaching processes with complex workflows, and academic certificates with intermediate and advanced vocational skill level certificates, providing students with the "last mile" of smooth employment.
China's vocational undergraduate education has achieved fruitful phased results, but the exploration of educational laws, models, and paradigms is constantly advancing steadily. Relevant departments can accelerate the improvement of the evaluation system for vocational undergraduate colleges and newly added majors, establish scientific admission, exit, and elimination mechanisms, and dynamically adjust the distribution and enrollment scale of majors based on the evaluation results of the quality of education, in order to strictly prevent the differentiation of individual vocational colleges with the goal of upgrading to higher education. It is also necessary for pilot colleges to carefully summarize their experiences and shortcomings, strengthen their strengths, make up for their shortcomings, and continuously improve the quality of education, so that the "double harvest" of enrollment and employment can become a "long harvest".
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