A few days ago, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Modern Vocational Education.
Before 2025, the types and characteristics of vocational education in China will be more prominent, a modern vocational education system has been established, and cooperation between vocational schools and social capital has been promoted to jointly build vocational education infrastructure, practical training bases, and shared practical training bases. Comprehensively promote the construction of a skilled society, encourage listed companies and leading enterprises in the industry to hold vocational education, and encourage all kinds of enterprises to participate in the organization of vocational education in accordance with law.
Academic talents are saturated, and vocational and technical talents are missing
Back in 1995, when China for the first time proposed the implementation of the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, adhered to the principle of education, placed science and technology and education in an important position in economic and social development, enhanced the country's scientific and technological strength and ability to realize the transformation of productive forces, improved the scientific and technological and cultural quality of the whole nation, and regarded the implementation of the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education as one of the important principles for speeding up China's socialist modernization drive in the 21 st century.
Time has passed 26 years, and this major mission of the times has been qualitatively promoted from today, because policies, industries, capital, technology, markets, and talents are far stronger than in the past! At present, China's vocational education development model can no longer meet the needs of economic restructuring and rapid economic development, and is driven by the general direction of national industrial restructuring and supply-side structural reform.
From "popularizing compulsory education" to "expanding the enrollment rate of discipline education" to "vigorously developing vocational education", the goal of education has also changed from the popularization of higher education, increasing the proportion of university diplomas for the whole people, and gradually transitioning to cultivating industrialized and specialized talents. It points out the direction for the development of education, which more clearly defines the social positioning of industry, enterprises, capital, schools, etc., which will profoundly affect the fate of all walks of life and even the country. In order to meet the talent needs of different stages of China's economic development, education reform has been slowly advancing.
The reason is that talent training should match the development stage of the industrial economy, from "Made in China" to "Made in China" to "Created in China", each industrial replacement takes decades.
The reform of vocational education has promoted the development of our country
In 2010, China's population with college education or above was 118 million, and in 2020 it reached 218 million, which means that 100 million people have increased in 10 years. By 2020, this figure will increase by 100 million. It can be seen from the calculations that the proportion of Chinese with university degrees has reached 15.5% of the total population.
Some economic analysts estimate that if the 0-14-year-old population is subtracted, the share of the population with a college education will rise further to 18.8%. We must clearly see the achievements of China's education in the past few years, but we must also see the gap with developed countries, which has now reached a turning point, and the two major phenomena highlight the forced education reform.
Many scientific and technological positions have a large talent gap, and at this stage, university education cannot keep up with the needs of emerging industries for the development of professional talents. According to the preliminary calculations of relevant departments, by 2025, the gap in the demand for talents in the 10 key areas of China's manufacturing industry is nearly 30 million, and the gap in the service industry is even greater, with at least 40 million people needed in the fields of housekeeping and pension, while only about 1 million graduates from secondary and higher vocational related majors were only about 1 million, and the gap in vocational and technical personnel was very large.
Vocational education undertakes an important role in sending solid professional and technical talents to the society, is an indispensable firm force for education in the new era, and the optimization of its education system and teaching quality is an important work of modern education management, and it is also an important force to promote the development of human resources in China.
At present, the state gradually attaches importance to vocational education, the release of various documents also confirms that the country will gradually tilt to vocational education, vocational education with the support of this wave of policies, standing on the cusp of the times, ushering in the tide of reform, and now the first batch of students into the reform system of students, fortunately caught up with this outlet, the future will be bright!
Vocational education enables children to master a skill to meet the needs of future social development and changes, and can better cope with the changes in current national policies and the challenges faced by society under severe pressures such as the college entrance examination and the middle school entrance examination.
For students, most of the children who enter vocational education are in adolescence, it is the rebellious period, the vast majority of children are more difficult to discipline, in vocational education, the school for the management of the school is often more neglectful, this is also the problem facing the development of vocational education in our country, to fundamentally change the concept, so that children are fully aware of the advantages and benefits of vocational education to them.
Regarding some problems in the specific development process of vocational schools, because the solution of specific problems in the development process of higher vocational colleges is not thorough and comprehensive, and the problems related to management are relatively neglectful, many problems have arisen, and if we want to comprehensively improve the quality of the entire education, we must change the development mode of vocational colleges.
In short, for the current development of vocational education, it is also necessary for all aspects to make continuous efforts to better meet the development prospects of vocational college education, to cope with the country's demand for high-end technical personnel, and to promote the growth of the country's overall strength.