Accelerate the construction of a modern vocational education system - promote mechanism innovation and deepen the integration of industry and education

　　In the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, vocational education has a broad future and great promise. In December 2022, the Office of the CPC Central Committee and the Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Deepening the Construction and Reform of the Modern Vocational Education System", focusing on solving the outstanding contradictions and problems in the reform and development of vocational education. Over the past year or so since the reform, what kind of explorations and practices have been carried out by schools in various localities, and what is the progress of the construction of the modern vocational education system?　　

　　Explore the construction of a modern vocational education system at the provincial level

　　In the process of washing machine inner drum production, how to automatically separate and reuse defective products? In the face of the technical problems that plague washing machine manufacturers, Li Haotian, a student majoring in mold design and manufacturing from the School of Mechanical Engineering of Tianjin Light Industry Vocational and Technical College, studied with his classmates and successfully designed a solution, and won the gold medal of the 3rd Industry-Education Integration Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition of Tianjin Haihe Education Park.

　　"Relying on the industrial park, taking the actual needs of enterprises as the topic of the competition, the colleges and universities set up a team to solve the problem, and through the competition to promote integration, the education chain talent chain and the industrial chain innovation chain have achieved an organic connection. Wei Nan, deputy director of the Education Reform Department of the Management Committee of Haihe Education Park, said.

　　The construction of Haihe Education Park is a microcosm of Tianjin's deepening supply-side structural reform of vocational education. Not long ago, the "Tianjin Vocational Education Industry and Education Integration Promotion Regulations" was promulgated, which is the first local regulation on the integration of vocational education industry and education in the country. The regulations make it clear that the Municipal People's Government shall strengthen the leadership of the integration of industry and education in vocational education, improve and improve the work coordination mechanism, and study and solve major problems in the integration of industry and education in vocational education.

　　Nowadays, more and more people realize that vocational education cannot be simply understood as education run by vocational schools, but is a systematic project, involving the government, industry, enterprises, schools and other aspects, and should be planned from a higher position.

　　It is an important task to deepen the construction and reform of the modern vocational education system at the provincial level and promote high-quality development with reform breakthroughs at the provincial level. According to reports, at present, the Ministry of Education has worked with 8 provinces to build a new model pilot for the construction of a provincial modern vocational education system.

　　"Focusing on the national strategy, playing a coordinating role, highlighting local characteristics, and the joint construction of provinces and ministries has been steadily promoted. For example, Heilongjiang Province has given full play to the supporting role of vocational education in the development of modern agriculture, the construction of modern rural areas, and the cultivation of modern farmers, and has served the national food security; Hunan Province has focused on advantageous industries such as construction machinery and rail transit equipment, and has served the construction of important national advanced manufacturing highlands. The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education said that the next step will be to select provinces with good conditions and strong willingness to reform and explore, negotiate and determine the pilot tasks province by province, and gradually expand the scope of provincial pilots.

　　Enterprises are directly involved in the development of education and teaching resources

　　Walking into the rail vehicle technology training base of Changzhou Railway Higher Vocational and Technical School, a long subway body comes into view. Here, students can debug and repair vehicle electrical, pantograph, door, bogie and other practical training.

　　"As a vocational college directly under CRRC Group Co., Ltd., the high-level professional training base for the integration of production and education jointly built by the school and the enterprise has allowed students to obtain rich training resources and is conducive to a solid grasp of skills. Du Fen, director of the teaching management department of Changzhou Railway Higher Vocational and Technical School, introduced.

　　In July last year, the National Rail Transit Equipment Industry Industry Integration Community was established in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, which is the first national-level industry industry-education integration community supported by the Ministry of Education. According to reports, the community is jointly led by CRRC Group, relevant high-level universities and vocational colleges, and its members include 5 industrial clusters, 9 ordinary universities, 34 vocational colleges, CRRC and 49 subsidiaries and 4 scientific research institutes.

　　The community pays more attention to the leading enterprises in the industry to grasp the leading power of the integration of industry and education. "Let enterprises deeply participate in the whole process of talent training in vocational colleges, so that vocational education can truly run schools around the needs of the industry and serve the construction of a modern industrial system. Zhang Ying, president of Hunan Railway Vocational and Technical College, said.

　　How to do a good job in vocational education, change the situation that the integration of industry and education is not deep, and the school-enterprise cooperation is hot and cold? Vigorously promote the construction of the city-wide industry-education consortium and the industry-education integration community, and build a platform for enterprises to directly participate in the development of education and teaching resources. It is understood that in the past year, through the construction of a national-level municipal industry-education consortium and an industry-education integration community, nearly 12,000 teachers have entered the enterprise for practice, more than 6,000 high-skilled talents have entered the school to teach, more than 2,400 courses have been optimized and updated, and more than 500 high-quality training courses have been transformed into school courses, and vocational education resources have become increasingly rich.

　　Enhance the key school-running capacity of vocational schools

　　"On the eve of the high school entrance examination, in order to have more choices, I went to two schools that carried out the pilot of integrated talent training of secondary vocational and undergraduate talents to understand the situation, and finally chose Hangzhou Tourism Vocational School in Zhejiang. In 2022, Henna completed her secondary vocational studies, successfully passed the transfer exam, and entered Zhejiang Lishui University for undergraduate studies.

　　Henna's experience is a reflection of the integration of vocational education. A few days ago, Zhejiang Province issued the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of a Modern Vocational Education System" to encourage high-level universities to recruit top-notch innovative students for secondary vocational education and smooth the training channel for vocational education students with professional degrees.

　　Deepening the reform of the construction of the modern vocational education system is, in the final analysis, to serve the all-round development of people, so that students with different endowments and needs can choose and diversify their talents. Based on this, it is particularly important to focus on the self-reliance and self-improvement of vocational education and improve the key school-running capabilities of vocational schools.

　　According to reports, at present, in the new generation of information technology and other six key areas of advanced manufacturing, 84 professional course reform pilots have been steadily promoted; the "vocational education national training" demonstration project has been launched, and 213 national "double-teacher" teacher and principal training bases have been selected and determined; the special training plan for vocational education field engineers has been implemented, and 540 projects have been declared; the vocational education college entrance examination program has been gradually improved, and the enrollment scale of application-oriented undergraduate schools in the vocational education college entrance examination has been expanding......

　　The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education said that it is necessary to deepen the integration of industry and education as a breakthrough, to promote the integration of vocational education as the key point, to promote the integration of science and education as a new direction, and to accelerate the construction of a government-led, multi-participatory, demand-driven, open and integrated modern vocational education system.

Source: People's Daily - People's Daily Overseas Edition

Editor: Du Yujie First instance: Guo Qiujuan Second instance: Li Xiaoyan Third instance: Shan Wei