The new round of reform and development of higher vocational education path has been determined

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Source: China Education

To improve the quality as the core, "the four-cooperation¡± as main line, deepening educational reform, and promote institutional innovation, and strive to build modern vocational education with Chinese characteristics

On 13-14 September, the National Reform and Development of vocational work was held in Hangzhou. This conference studied and implemented the education planning framework, which promote a new round of higher vocational education reform and development, comprehensive plan for the next 10 years, the development strategies and missions of vocational education convened task of a national higher Vocational Education Conference. The conference theme was to improve the quality as the core, for the cooperation of school, educate people, employment and development as main line, deepening educational reform, and promote institutional innovation, and strive to build modern vocational education with Chinese characteristics .

The higher vocational education rapidly developed in this 10 years, China has 1215 National Independent Vocational College, which has 313 million for enrollment students and 965 million for existing students. ¡°The National Construction Programs of Higher Vocational Colleges" explore the establishment of the mechanism of the school-enterprise-cooperation for the school system, promoting personal training mode, strengthen social services capacity, cross-regional sharing of high quality educational resources and achieved remarkable results. Higher vocational education enhanced economic and social development and higher education reform and development has made important contributions. The vocational education trained more than 13 million highly skilled specialists, and provided training for more than 20 million people, has won widespread community concern and support in this decade.

Vocational education has responsibility of training, production, construction, service and management as the first line of high quality skilled expertise important mission, which contributed to economic development. According to statistics, at present, 95% of the prefecture-level city have Vocational Colleges, this layout features, making vocational institutions and local economic, social, scientific and educational development to reach the most direct and most closely. Ministry of Education, deputy party secretary, Chen Xi, Vice Minister stressed in this conference, the requirements of the Education Program for the next 10 years, the development of higher vocational education reform is to improve the quality of core tasks. Through reform, the higher vocational education on the quality of the training in the new upgrade, the school system, a new breakthrough mechanism, structure and layout of a more-he management, social services, increasing capacity to achieve a historic leap of content development.

The meeting made it clear that the next step of higher vocational education reform and development of strategic objective is to build modern vocational education with Chinese characteristics. The morality and tries as the basic task, focus on professional ethics and professionalism training, enhancing vocational skills training, to promote overall development of students, develop production, construction, management and service line of high quality skilled professionals. To enhance the overall educational level of vocational institutions, and enhance social services capacity, to carry out diverse continuing education, efforts to form a number of distinctive characteristics, a high level, with international influence vocational colleges.

It was noted that the future of higher vocational education reform and development, to take the initiative to meet the needs of regional economic and social development, adhere to the service for the purpose of employment-oriented, production and research end-he walked the path of development; to in order to improve the quality of the core, deepen the educational reform, optimize its professional structure, strengthen the teaching staff, the expansion of international exchanges and-he made, perfect quality assurance system, improve the quality of personnel training and school level; to innovative institutional mechanisms to improve the school system of enterprise-he made clear the government sector businesses and schools in the school-enterprise-he made in the duties and rights, through tax incentives, business school of cost and burden-sharing and other security policies and measures in industries and enterprises to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of higher vocational education.

The meeting clearly proposed to encourage local governments and industries and enterprises at all levels, build a vocational college-he made full use of their planning in the industry, funding, advanced technology, part-time teacher employment, practical training employment base and attract students and other areas, for schools to promote school-enterprise-he,-he for educating people,-he for the job,-he for development. Encouraged to explore the establishment of higher vocational colleges Board of Directors, Council for the formation of school stakeholders-he, a long-term mechanism for educating people together, increasing the vitality of higher vocational education institutions. Improve vocational education services, economic and social development. Chen Xi stressed at the meeting, higher vocational education should focus on the scientific certainty orientation, deepen the educational reform, and promote institutional innovation, to enhance basic education capacity, expanding the five aspects of social services to promote reform and development.

It is understood that the "second Five-Year" period, the Ministry of Education in accordance with overall planning, the first pilot, the principle of dynamic adjustment, and gradually started the national model of higher vocational colleges and schools plan the second phase, and municipal reform of vocational education fully-he pilot, demonstration of Vocational Education of school construction, higher vocational colleges, "Double" of teachers, vocational education training base construction, higher vocational education teaching resource library and share-based skills training and continuing education service platform and other major projects and reform, policy guidance, program incentives and other methods to mobilize the active participation of higher vocational education. Through continuous reform and construction and strive to make higher vocational education in the school system, teaching content, teaching methods, evaluation system and achieved a major breakthrough, and comprehensively improve the quality of higher vocational education.

Needless to say, this is a stand at a new historical starting point for accelerating the reform and development of higher vocational education by the mobilization will be an important, but also a full of vitality and innovation of the reform by the government, schools, industries, enterprises actively-he interact with the General Assembly. This reporter noted that this meeting except education and vocational colleges to participate in the executive branch, there are more than 30 ministries, industries, enterprises and government leaders attended more than 20 provinces, fully embodies the highlights of higher vocational education schools and enterprises -he made, emphasizing government-led, industry guidance, the main institutions, enterprises to participate in the important feature.

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