Changsha, people.com.cn, May 22, to improve the modern vocational education system and cultivate a large number of highly skilled talents with superb skills are the new requirements of the country for vocational education in the new era.

Recently, the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Hunan Province issued the Implementation Plan on Further Deepening the Integration of Vocational Education with Industry and Education to Serve the Construction of National Important Advanced Manufacturing Highlands. Hunan has become one of the eight pilot provinces for the construction and reform of the modern vocational education system in China.

How about the development of vocational education in Hunan, and what experience do you have in training skilled personnel?

During the 2024 Vocational Education Week, we came to several vocational schools in Xiangtan, Hengyang, Yongzhou and other places to experience the new achievements of vocational education, and to investigate the important role played by skill competition, integration of industry and education, and the integration of secondary and higher vocational education in vocational education.

Skill competition leads dreams to set sail

Skills are the foundation of vocational education. The vocational skills contest is a major system design and innovation of vocational education, an important stage for the majority of vocational teachers and students to show their style and pursue their dreams, and an important way for vocational colleges to run their own characteristics and level.

Entering Yongzhou Vocational and Technical College, the wall full of award certificates and trophies are arranged in order, demonstrating the strong strength of the school in skill competition.

It is understood that Yongzhou Vocational College won 5 first prizes, 15 second prizes and 32 third prizes in the 2024 "Chuyi Cup" Hunan Vocational Skills Competition. In addition, the students of the university have made outstanding achievements in many competitions such as the "Internet+" Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in Hunan Province, the "Challenge Cup" Undergraduate Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition in Hunan Province, and the Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Plan Competition in Hunan Province.

Gui Qunfa, from Class 2, Grade 22 Network of Yongzhou Vocational and Technical College, is one of the contestants. Last year, he won the second prize of the national competition of "Network System Management" in 2023 and the first prize of the provincial competition in 2024. "Compared with learning in peacetime, the knowledge investigated by the competition is more in-depth, and it also tests operational proficiency." Gui Qunfa said that the preparation process also improved his professional quality, hoping to win the first prize at the national level in the next national championship, and win higher honors for the school and the team.

"We must attach importance to the skills competition in higher vocational education, and only through the experience of the competition can we cultivate high-tech talents, and find a way of 'competition and teaching integration' development, where professional teaching and competition training go hand in hand, and the quality improves simultaneously." said Huang Xiaoming, secretary of the Party Committee of Yongzhou Vocational and Technical College.

Gui Qunfa, a student of Yongzhou Vocational College, is preparing for the Warring States Games. Photographed by intern Yang Beibei

Hunan National Defense Industry Vocational and Technical College also attaches great importance to the two-way improvement of students' professional practical ability and professional quality, and has gained a lot in various skill competitions.

It is reported that the school won one first prize, four second prizes and eight third prizes in the 2023 Chuyi Cup Vocational College Skills Competition in Hunan Province, and organized sergeant students to participate in the "Intelligent Warhawk · 2023" Army UAV Professional Orientation Training Sergeant Skills Competition, winning one first prize in professional skills module, He won one second prize and two third prizes in the third Army Aviation Maintenance Professional Orientation Training Sergeant Skills Competition.

Talking about the experience of winning the prize, Li Shengyang, a contestant, said that the professional knowledge learned at school and the ability required for the competition were consistent. The team had advantages in tactical skills, so it was possible to achieve such good results. His participation experience also made him more clear about his future goal - the first army UAV brigade.

Today, Hunan National Defense Industry Vocational College has formed a stable and powerful reserve force for competition, focusing on team cultivation and competition feedback, relying on the competition system, cultivating and selecting contestants, providing professional guidance teachers, and developing in a team; After the competition, the school will give corresponding rewards to the award-winning team, focusing on awarding the students, so as to stimulate students to improve their professional strength.

Integration of production and education to cultivate practice elites

In order to better improve students' practical ability and strive to cultivate high-quality skilled talents to meet the market demand, Xiangtan Medical and Health Vocational College actively docked with the oral health industry, introduced Beichen Times Dental Hospital and Kangtaiyou Dental Equipment Co., Ltd., invested nearly 30 million yuan, and cooperated to build two sets of about 2000 square meters of teaching, practical training, teacher training On campus productive training base for stomatology and stomatological technology, integrating foreign business. Students can carry out practical training activities such as denture processing here, which is convenient and fast without leaving school.

Zeng Huyi is a Grade 21 student majoring in stomatological technology in the school. After entering the school, she joined the Kangtai Youyi Order Class.

"In my three years of college, I have been working hard to learn professional knowledge and apply it to my work. The sense of integration in the class, the sense of achievement in my work, and my own sense of happiness have always guided me forward. As soon as I finished my internship this year, I got the ideal job as I wished, and became a member of the digital department of Kangtaiyou Medical Devices Co., Ltd. The school enterprise integration of the school really enables us to realize our dream of employment upon graduation. " Zeng Huyi said.

Xiangxiang No. 1 Vocational Secondary School has also made great efforts in the integration of production and education, and actively explored the training mode of high-quality technical talents of "integration of production and education+school enterprise cooperation+modern apprenticeship+order training".

Different majors have different development strategies. For e-commerce major, Xiangxiang No. 1 Vocational Secondary School introduced Hunan Mingtuo E-commerce Co., Ltd. to jointly build e-commerce training center, and enterprises train students to build online stores and open live broadcasts; The mold manufacturing technology specialty signed a school enterprise cooperation agreement with Hunan Yichen Technology Co., Ltd., automobile application and maintenance specialty and Jingrui Automobile Service Co., Ltd. The two sides jointly built a professional training room to carry out school enterprise joint education; Sign school enterprise cooperation, production and education integration agreements with leading enterprises such as Weitai Technology, Aozhi Technology, and Shensi Electrician in the local industrial park, arrange students majoring in computer application, secretary, electronics and electrical appliances to enter the enterprise for work study alternation, and jointly cultivate the required talents; Sign agreements with many local preschool education institutions and automobile industry enterprises such as Decay Kindergarten, Hualong Kindergarten, Xiangxiang Checube Service Co., Ltd., Xiangxiang Dongfang Famous Car Maintenance Service Center, Xiangxiang GAC Toyota, Honda 4S Store, etc. to arrange student training, internship and employment; Actively connect with the local characteristic industry - power industry, and carry out order training. The power transmission and distribution specialty signed a school enterprise cooperation agreement with Tengda Electric Power Technology Co., Ltd. to orient the training of skilled personnel in the power industry.

Students are learning the live broadcast process in Xiangxiang E-Commerce Training Center. Photographed by intern Yang Beibei

Connecting secondary and higher vocational schools paves a new way for further education

"Follow the instructions! Step by step, raise your hand if you can't solve the problem!" On May 13, the students of medical device maintenance and management specialty were carrying out the training task of "series circuit characteristics and typical fault troubleshooting", and the professional leader repeatedly emphasized the operation key.

These students are secondary vocational school students from Xiangtan Biological Electromechanical School. They came to Xiangtan Medical and Health Vocational College in advance to have a practical training course. This lesson is the epitome of Xiangtan Medical and Health Vocational College's "3+2" middle and higher vocational linkage training.

It is understood that since 2022, Xiangtan Medical and Health Vocational College has started to carry out the "3+2" professional talent training for the connection of secondary and higher vocational education with Xiangxiang No. 1 Vocational Secondary School and Xiangtan Biomechanics and Electronics School, covering the two majors of intelligent medical equipment technology and medical equipment maintenance and management. Through listening to professional courses, visiting the training room, checking the course offering, final exam results, and informal discussions, both parties fully understood the implementation of the major and the difficulties and puzzles they faced, and strengthened the communication and training of teachers. They also improved the teaching quality and students' interest in learning through professional teaching seminars, fine adjustment of teaching schedule, development of transition assessment standards and question banks A consensus has been reached on strengthening the cultivation of students' basic hands-on ability, students' visit and study, and enterprises in the Medical Device Industrial Park, so as to maximize the connection between secondary and higher vocational schools and the training of talents.

Xiangtan Medical and Health Vocational College training course site. Photographed by intern Yang Beibei

Guiqunfa of Yongzhou Vocational College also grows under the cultivation of the connection mode of secondary and higher vocational education. "I once studied in Qiyang Vocational Technical Secondary School. Through the connection between secondary and higher vocational schools, I was helped by the counterpart of Yongzhou Vocational College. I came to Yongzhou Vocational College to learn network professional knowledge in advance when I was in my third year of senior high school. Thanks to the guidance of teacher Jiang Heng in this year, I had the opportunity to win the second prize in the 'network building' event of the secondary vocational group in the Hunan Vocational College Skills Competition." Gui Qunfa said. (Reporter Kuang Ying, intern Yang Beibei)

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