Schools are not places to make money, and students are not cheap labor

Recently, students of Yancheng Technician College in Jiangsu Province reported to the Central Broadcasting Network that the school forced students to intern in designated factories, otherwise they would not be issued graduation certificates. The reporter's in-depth investigation found that this school has a number of problems that are explicitly prohibited, and even suspected of earning "head fees" for intern students. (May 6, CCTV)

According to reports, yancheng technician college, in the name of "alternating engineering and learning", forcibly sends students to work in factories, forced students to work at wages significantly lower than the market price, and clearly states that there is no graduation certificate without labor. As a result, these students, who have just turned 18, work 12 hours a day, and the overload of labor makes the students miserable. Moreover, as student workers, they are forced to work overtime and night shifts, and they cannot take weekends off. More importantly, the internship positions arranged by Yancheng Technician College often have nothing to do with the majors studied by students.

The "Regulations on the Administration of Internships for Students in Vocational Schools" jointly issued by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other five ministries and commissions clearly require that schools must not arrange student internships through intermediary agencies or paid agency organizations, and must not arrange overtime and night shifts for students. Moreover, there is a clear working hour limit for arranging students to intern in factories. The Regulations on the Promotion of School-Enterprise Cooperation in Vocational Education in Jiangsu Province stipulate that intern students shall be arranged to work no more than eight hours per day and 40 hours per week for intern students. But in the school-enterprise cooperation of Yancheng Technician College, these regulations are a blank piece of paper.

The biggest failure of a school is to use the place where teaching and educating people is used as a place to make money and make profits. If you have always wanted to make money from students, how can you better educate students? Students come to school to learn in order to receive a better education, rather than becoming exhausted and scarred under the guise of "engineering and learning alternation" and "top-level internship" in school. The original purpose of the internship was to allow students to gain insight and accumulate experience in advance for formal work, not to make money, but now it seems that the internship has changed.

Eighteen years old was originally the age to imagine the future, but under the compulsion of Yancheng Technician College, these students who had just turned eighteen could only prematurely bear the pressure of not belonging to this age. At a time when schools and intermediaries are making a lot of money, these students who have just learned about the world are crying because of the fatigue of their work. Schools are not places to make money, students are not cheap labor, do not let unscrupulous schools become a stumbling block for students to chase the future.

Text/Zhu Qi (Zhengzhou University)