On May 16, the 2024 Foshan Vocational Education Week kicked off in Gaoming Vocational Education Park, showing the achievements of Foshan's vocational education reform and development from multiple angles. The reporter learned that as a "national key secondary vocational school", Chen Deng Vocational and Technical School in Shunde District, Foshan City, is also keeping up with the pace. In recent years, the school's admission rate has increased year by year, from 70.13% in the 2021 academic year to 86.35% in the 2023 academic year.
In the undergraduate batch admission of the 2024 spring college entrance examination in Guangdong, 12 students including He Peishan of the school have been admitted to the university in advance in March this year.
Chen Deng Vocational School pays attention to "equal emphasis on employment and further education".
He Peishan plans to continue to study for graduate school after completing her undergraduate degree, and then go to a vocational school to become a professional teacher, "I want to become a teacher with both technology and academic qualifications, so I need to further my studies." He Peishan's idea is also the plan of many secondary vocational students at present - to go to university. To this end, in recent years, Chendeng Vocational School has continuously adjusted its curriculum and teaching in a timely manner, changing from "employment-oriented" to "paying equal attention to employment and further education". Many students have found a path that meets their own personalized development through diversified education.
"The school would explain to us different pathways as soon as we entered the school." Wu Jinhui, who is about to graduate from Shenzhen Polytechnic University in June this year, shared that he is currently working with his team to run a leading security company channel, specializing in providing one-stop services for major Internet companies and manufacturing companies.
Recalling that when he was in Chen Deng Vocational School, under the recommendation of the teacher, Wu Jinhui joined the Internet of Things competition team, and won the first place in the 2020 Guangdong Internet of Things Competition with a solid foundation, and became the winner of the 2020 National Scholarship for Secondary Vocational Education.
Wu Jinhui, a student from the class of 2021, will graduate from the university in June this year.
Secondary vocational education is the starting point of vocational education, not the end of it. Top-notch talents with skills can be promoted to higher education through various channels such as examination-free promotion, three-two segmentation system, and Zhongben penetration, in addition to entering higher vocational colleges, they can also be promoted to undergraduates. Zhong Jiafeng, a marketing major in the class of 2023, passed the "promotion class" opened by Chen Deng Vocational School and directly obtained her undergraduate degree from secondary vocational school. Three years ago, under the guidance of her teachers, she gradually realized the importance of a higher platform and a higher starting point, so she decided to challenge an excellent university. After entering the school, Zhong Jiafeng was strict with herself, and in half a year, she increased from more than 210 points to more than 270 points in the final college entrance examination, exceeding the undergraduate admission line, and was admitted to Guangdong University of Technology and Commerce for health management.
In addition to entering higher institutions through skills or culture, students can also enter universities with their strengths. Chen Jiancheng, a 2022 marketing student, has been training on the school's track and field team and basketball team since he was a child. During the three years of study at Chen Deng Vocational School, after a scientific training system and hard personal training, his high jump score went from 1.70 meters in the first year of high school to 2.00 meters in the third year of high school. In the end, he was admitted to Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education (undergraduate) with a score of 2.00 meters in the national sports single-recruitment high jump test and a score of 320 in the cultural test.
Secondary vocational schools enroll students according to their development direction.
"The positioning of secondary vocational education as 'equal emphasis on employment and further education' puts forward higher requirements for the quality of school education and teaching." The relevant person in charge of Chen Deng Vocational School said that in addition to paying attention to the teaching of public basic courses, the school also attaches great importance to practical learning such as students' professional practical training and skill certificate examination, "After the path of secondary vocational students is broadened, students can go to junior college, undergraduate, and even master's and doctor's degrees, which greatly enhances the attractiveness of vocational education, thereby directly improving the quality of students and forming a virtuous circle."
Text/Gao Pingheng, reporter of Foshan News and Media Center