According to relevant reports, the Shanghai Academic Degrees Committee recently announced the list of bachelor's degree awarding majors in 2023. Two undergraduate majors, Home Economics and Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Open University, were approved to award bachelor's degrees.
According to reports, Shanghai Open University is the first university in Shanghai to open an undergraduate major in home economics, which is committed to cultivating professionals with strong management capabilities of home economics institutions and comprehensive service capabilities of home economics, and who can be competent for domestic economics management in domestic service institutions, social organizations and communities.
The main courses in Home Economics include-
Introduction to Home Economics, Family Sociology, Home Economics Management, Family Education, Family Nutrition, Domestic Service Laws and Regulations, Housekeeping Enterprise Management, Family Health Management, Life and Consumption Guidance, Family Aesthetics, etc.
There is a large shortage of domestic workers
In recent years, news about the post-90s generation and graduates working in the domestic service industry has always attracted public attention. The reporter combed and found that the number of reports concerned about the gap in domestic workers has been increasing.
In fact, the domestic service industry has received unprecedented attention from the government.
- In 2019, the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Promoting the Quality and Expansion of the Domestic Service Industry.
It is proposed that, in principle, at least one undergraduate university and several vocational colleges in each province offer domestic service-related majors.
- In November 2021, 15 departments, including the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce, jointly issued the Three-Year Implementation Plan for Deepening and Promoting the Quality and Expansion of the Domestic Service Industry as a "Leader" (2021-2023).
- At the end of 2022, 11 departments, including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Education, jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Promoting Home Economics into the Community.
- Not long ago, the Ministry of Commerce and the National Development and Reform Commission also jointly issued the "Key Points for Promoting the Quality and Expansion of the Domestic Service Industry in 2023".
According to China Education Daily, a few days ago, Hebei Normal University held a special job fair for the first batch of graduates after the restoration of the university's home economics major. 36 units from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei have set up Tainaxian, providing more than 750 jobs, 28.8 times the number of fresh graduates of home economics majoring in the university, setting a record for the supply-demand ratio of graduates of the university.