"Canoe bridge" is becoming an "overpass"

Photo by Song Yameng, all-media reporter of Henan Newspaper

□ Wang Xiangqian, a reporter for Henan Daily

College entrance examination season, the future, everyone discusses. Some parents and students in the crowd can't help but be anxious - what if thousands of troops and horses cross the canoe bridge?

Don't worry, the good news for the students is coming. On June 7, the draft revision of the Vocational Education Law was first submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for deliberation, and the draft proposed that vocational education has the same important status as general education.

This means that the state will "stand on the platform" of vocational education by amending laws, and China's vocational education will also enter a better stage of development. If the child is interested in vocational education, the future can be expected.

Vocational education and general education "sit on an equal footing"

As an important part of the national education system and human resources development, the importance of vocational education is unquestionable. All along, all aspects of society have also reached a consensus on this.

However, the other side of the reality is that the verbal attention is not consistent with the real situation, and the concept of "only if you can't get into a university or a good university will you go to vocational education" is very popular in society.

Now, it's time to really get to know vocational education. The revised draft clarifies the positioning of vocational education, stipulating that vocational education and general education are different types of education and have the same important status. Some interpretations point out that this means that vocational higher education will be "on an equal footing" with general higher education, and vocational education will also train its own undergraduates.

Wang Wencheng, director of the Examination and Talent Assessment Research Center of Zhengzhou University and doctoral supervisor, introduced that after more than 20 years, the state has revised the current vocational education law, which itself has a very strong signal, telling everyone that vocational education is as important as the status of general education, and children can also do something when they enter vocational education, which is conducive to cracking the prejudice of many parents and students on vocational education.

The revised draft also makes a number of provisions on "the mutual integration of vocational education and general education". This includes promoting the identification, accumulation and transformation of learning outcomes in education and vocational training at all levels and types of schools and other vocational education, establishing and improving the national qualifications framework, and integrating and mutually recognizing the learning outcomes of vocational education and general education.

"These provisions are all good proof of social development and progress, we must develop vocational education like the development of general education, build a solid foundation for the cultivation of vocational education talents, select high-quality students who are suitable for vocational education and technical education into the sequence of vocational education, and cannot dwarf or narrow the training of vocational and technical skills talents, artificially creating a structural social difference between vocational education and general education." Wang Wencheng said.

The children's road is wide

The state's efforts in vocational education are a great thing for Henan.

Henan Province has a total of 512 vocational colleges and universities, with 2.6838 million students, and an average of 3 million vocational trainings completed every year...... The reporter learned that as of now, the overall scale of vocational education and the average scale of schools in Henan Province rank first in the country, and the "vocational education province" is worthy of the name. Li Hongjian, senior economist of the Labor Science Research Institute of the Provincial Human Resources and Social Security Department, introduced that at present, our province is at a new starting point for development, economic transformation and industrial upgrading are accelerating, and the demand for skilled talents, especially high-skilled talents, is urgent. "Today, improving the status of vocational education and accelerating the development of vocational education are of more important practical significance for promoting the construction of Henan as a strong manufacturing province and a strong province with strong human resources."

When it comes to vocational education to improve a person's skills, Zhang Wenbo's example is very convincing.

Born in 1998, his high school grades were not excellent, and he filled in Henan Vocational and Technical College according to his personal interests when he filled in the college entrance examination. "A diploma is not important, it is important to have a skill. In recent years, e-commerce is very popular, I also want to start a business, I reported to Henan Vocational and Technical College to learn e-commerce. Zhang Wenbo said. Half a year after entering the campus, he started a business with the help of the school and teachers, and set up a small wenxian student entrepreneurial team.

Today, a year after graduation, his company's annual sales have exceeded 10 million. Referring to this, he is very proud, "Everyone must choose to learn practical things according to their own strengths when choosing." My classmates in the dormitory at that time worked well and paid high salaries, after all, they had skills and skills. ”

There are many "skilled people" like Zhang Wenbo in Henan. In 2019, Henan Province became one of the first six provinces of the State Council due to "the strong promotion of school-enterprise cooperation, the good environment for the development of vocational education, and the obvious results of promoting vocational education reform". At the beginning of this year, Henan Province was approved to become one of the seven provinces jointly built by the ministry and the province to promote the construction of a highland for the innovative development of vocational education.

As vocational education in our province embarks on the fast track, the choices available to candidates in our province are getting wider and wider.