(Source: Guangming Daily 2024-12-31)
Recently, the Ministry of Education announced a new batch of national online quality courses for vocational education. 914 courses stood out after layers of selection, of which more than 60% were related to advanced manufacturing, strategic emerging industries, modern agriculture, producer services, elderly care and other fields. Compared with the past, the courses successfully selected in this selection have richer content, more distinctive features, and further improved applicability. They are well in line with the new situation, new requirements, and new goals of vocational education reform, and have added support to better cultivate various high-quality skilled talents required for high-quality economic and social development.
Skills are the foundation of a strong country and the foundation of a career. Skilled talents are an important force supporting Made in China and Created in China. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to "accelerate the construction of a vocational education system that integrates vocational education with general education and industry and education" and "build a first-class industrial technical worker team." After years of development, the total number of skilled talents in my country has exceeded 200 million, accounting for more than 26% of the total employed people. According to statistics, as of June 2024, there are 51 vocational undergraduate colleges and universities in my country. It is expected that the enrollment scale of vocational undergraduate education in 2025 will not be less than 10% of the enrollment scale of higher vocational education. As my country's manufacturing industry accelerates the transformation and upgrading to high-end, intelligent, and green, and the industrial structure adjusts at an accelerated pace, the status and function of vocational education in the national development strategy, economic and social development, and the free and comprehensive development of people have become increasingly prominent. Promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation requires us to transform the "potential energy" of training vocational and technical talents into the "kinetic energy" of promoting high-quality development.
Highly skilled talents are an important driving force for industrial transformation and upgrading. Only by opening up space for the growth of skilled talents can we open up new space for industrial development. Develop a hair defect detection system to help traditional textile factories upgrade to smart factories; overcome the "stuck neck" technology of new material welding and develop unique skills in major projects; design new parts for large aircraft processing, innovate processes to improve parts manufacturing efficiency... In the practice of cultivating new productivity and building a modern industrial system, vocational education has a lot to do, and skilled talents have a lot to do.
In recent years, documents such as the "Opinions on Deepening the Construction and Reform of the Modern Vocational Education System", the "Implementation Plan for the Integration and Empowerment of Vocational Education between Industry and Education (2023-2025)", and the "Notice on Strengthening the Construction of Municipal Industry-Education Consortiums" have been issued one after another, providing policy guarantees for continuing to promote the construction and reform of the modern vocational education system and optimizing the positioning of vocational education types. Looking at the whole country, Zhejiang Province takes the lead in building a provincial skilled society and builds a skills cultivation system that deeply integrates "industry and talent" to create a skills ecology that "respects labor and advocates skills"; Shanghai issued the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Pilot Work on Training Skilled Talents in Key Industrial Fields of the City" and introduced a number of measures in optimizing the subsidy structure for vocational skills improvement, establishing and improving supporting systems, and strict qualification review and supervision. These explorations provide valuable experience and inspiration for us to promote the cultivation of skilled talents and enrich the human resources necessary for industrial development.
In the new journey and new development, the cultivation of vocational skills talents must gather the efforts of many parties. The first is to deepen the reform of the modern vocational education system, further promote the reform of education methods, w88 casino running models, management systems, and guarantee mechanisms, optimize curriculum settings, establish and improve the vocational education evaluation mechanism, promote the organic connection between vocational education, general education, and higher education, and consolidate the foundation for the training of skilled talents. The second is to guide multiple parties to participate in vocational education in an orderly manner, deepen the integration of industry and education, strengthen w88 casino-enterprise cooperation, and cultivate practical and application-oriented talents in accordance with the principle of "national urgent need, integration of industry and education, and adaptation of supply and demand" to create "finance college, gold course, gold teacher, gold field, and gold teaching materials" to comprehensively promote the major reform of vocational education with small incisions on key teaching elements, and continue to improve the fit between vocational education and industrial development. The third is to deepen the digital transformation of vocational education and build a new platform for skilled talents to learn and innovate through online learning, virtual simulation technology, etc., so that skilled talents can acquire new knowledge and skills anytime and anywhere, and improve their professional level. At the same time, relevant policies and regulations should be further formulated and improved to provide institutional guarantee for the training of skilled talents. Guide the reversal of the social concept of "valuing academic qualifications over skills", standardize the relevant standards for defining skilled talents, establish and improve the evaluation system for skilled talents, smooth the career development channels for skilled talents, set up role models for skilled talents, enhance their social status and sense of honor, attract more young people to join the technical field, and inject continuous power into the high-quality development of our country's economy and industrial transformation and upgrading.
(Author: Qin Han, deputy dean and associate professor of the w88 casino of Chinese Language and Literature, w88 casino)
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