Setting goals
1 year, 7 months ago

Setting goals

China Daily  

A teacher instructs students on operating a lathe at Jiangsu Donghai Specialized Secondary School in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, in April. ZHANG KAIHU/FOR CHINA DAILY Social recognition Moreover, the lower social recognition and acceptance of vocational graduates have hampered the development of vocational education, which attracted the attention of government bodies and companies that wish to change people's stereotypical views of students who attend vocational colleges. He said, thanks to government efforts to improve such workers' social status and salary, the public has shown a more inclusive attitude toward vocational education and skilled workers in the past few years. "All in all, receiving vocational education is not a 'helpless' choice for students with poor academic performance, but a personal choice by these young people who have skills and enjoy technical research." Zhang Honghao, the 23-year-old prize winner of information network cabling at the WorldSkills Competition 2022, said skilled talent is a key power supporting the development of the country's manufacturing and innovation industries, and vocational schools play a very important role in producing such talent.

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Job opportunities offered across diverse industries
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Job opportunities offered across diverse industries

China Daily  

Service industry boom In addition to the demand for talent in the manufacturing sector, the need for professionals in the service industry is also significant. According to Shi Jingying, director of Internship and Career Development Center at the Beijing Hospitality Institute, the school's flagship program in hotel management offers around 2,600 job positions for approximately 800 graduates each year during …

Job opportunities offered across diverse industries
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Job opportunities offered across diverse industries

China Daily  

Service industry boom In addition to the demand for talent in the manufacturing sector, the need for professionals in the service industry is also significant. According to Shi Jingying, director of Internship and Career Development Center at the Beijing Hospitality Institute, the school's flagship program in hotel management offers around 2,600 job positions for approximately 800 graduates each year during …

A vocational school student stuns China by besting university competitors in a math contest
6 months ago

A vocational school student stuns China by besting university competitors in a math contest

Associated Press  

A 17-year-old vocational school student from rural China became a celebrity on social media after reaching the final round of a math competition, beating many others from top universities and raising questions about the education system. While it was unclear how Jiang ended up in vocational school, her story still reminded some in China of the inequality between rural and …

Vocational education turns youngsters into world champions
1 year, 6 months ago

Vocational education turns youngsters into world champions

China Daily  

GUANGZHOU -- Guangdong Machinery Technician College may not sound like an elite educational institute, but the vocational college in South China's economic powerhouse Guangdong province has produced 10 gold medalists in the WorldSkills Competition overt the last 10 years. Dubbed the "world's factory," China has long put vocational education high on its policy agenda, establishing the largest vocational education system …

Setting goals
1 year, 7 months ago

Setting goals

China Daily  

Students learn to operate industrial robots at a wire cable manufacturing factory in Deqing county, Huzhou, Zhejiang province, in April. WANG SHUCHENG/FOR CHINA DAILY Regional imbalance However, the imbalance of resource allocation between normal and vocational education and discrimination against those with vocational training in the job market that formed in the past few decades led to some problems that …

Setting goals
1 year, 7 months ago

Setting goals

China Daily  

Hairdressers put dinner banquet makeups on models during a national skills competition in Lanzhou, Gansu province, in March. TIAN XI/FOR CHINA DAILY Employment scope According to Zhaopin, the recruitment portal, companies' demand for vocational graduates saw a year-on-year rise of 29.4 percent from July to March, 5.9 percentage points higher than the average increase rate of demand for job hunters …

Setting goals
1 year, 7 months ago

Setting goals

China Daily  

Contestants take part in a vocational skills match in Huaian, Jiangsu province, in March. China has two vocational education systems managed by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. The Ministry of Education manages another 8,812 schools offering vocational education, among which 1,518 vocational colleges issue graduation certificates equivalent to normal universities. Under the …

China issues guideline on advancing vocational education reform
2 years ago

China issues guideline on advancing vocational education reform

China Daily  

A worker works at the practical skills training center at a vocational school in China. It aims to enhance the capacities of vocational schools and increase the quality, adaptability, and appeal of vocational education to train more high-caliber technicians and skilled workers, said the document. The reform of the country's vocational education will focus on developing a multi-form, multi-channel, and …

World Vocational College Skills Competition comes to a close in Tianjin
2 years, 4 months ago

World Vocational College Skills Competition comes to a close in Tianjin

China Daily  

On Aug 13, the first World Vocational College Skills Competition entered its final day. As the "Cross-border E-commerce" competition organized by Tianjin Business Vocational College wound down, all competitions in the Tianjin Division of this event came to a close. Measuring the diameter of the piston with a micrometer and reading the data stream of the brake pedal status with …

Xi emphasizes vital role of vocational education
3 years, 8 months ago

Xi emphasizes vital role of vocational education

China Daily  

President Xi Jinping has highlighted the importance of accelerating the development of a modern vocational education system and cultivating more high-caliber technical professionals as China moves toward socialist modernization. He urged steady progress in developing undergraduate programs for vocational education, building a group of top-notch vocational institutions and programs, promoting the integration between vocational and general education and making vocational …

Shandong promotes quality vocational education
3 years, 8 months ago

Shandong promotes quality vocational education

China Daily  

The province of Shandong in East China has been ramping up efforts to boost the high-quality development of vocational education to provide talents for regional industrial upgrading, said Shandong authorities. More than 70 percent of the workers in Shandong's top emerging industries, such as rural revitalization, modern manufacturing and marine economy, come from vocational schools, according to official data. Shandong …

Shandong promotes quality vocational education
3 years, 8 months ago

Shandong promotes quality vocational education

China Daily  

The province of Shandong in East China has been ramping up efforts to boost the high-quality development of vocational education to provide talents for regional industrial upgrading, said Shandong authorities. More than 70 percent of the workers in Shandong's top emerging industries, such as rural revitalization, modern manufacturing and marine economy, come from vocational schools, according to official data. Shandong …

Measures needed to clear bottlenecks for development of vocational education
3 years, 10 months ago

Measures needed to clear bottlenecks for development of vocational education

China Daily  

Competitors in additive manufacturing at the first Vocational Skills Competition of the People's Republic of China. In the 10th of a series of commentaries, a senior journalist with China Daily searches for the answers: Despite the government's best efforts, the vocational education sector has not developed to the desired extent. The current number of students in such institutes is about …

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