What changes will it bring?
On April 20th, the 34th meeting of the 13th the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) voted to pass the newly revised People's Republic of China (PRC) Vocational Education Law. It shall come into force on May 1 day, 2022. This is the first revision of the law since the promulgation and implementation of 1996. The newly revised vocational education law has been improved from five chapters and forty articles to eight chapters and sixty-nine articles, with more substantial contents.
Is vocational education as important as general education? How to enhance the recognition of vocational education?
Socialist modernization needs high-quality workers and high-level skills and technology, and calls for high-quality vocational education.
Can the revised vocational education law achieve equal emphasis on vocational education and general education?
How to improve the social recognition of vocational education? What changes will the implementation of the new vocational education law bring to the education system?
It is clear for the first time that vocational education and general education have the same important position.
The Vocational Education Law ushered in its first overhaul in 26 years. What is this? For the first time, the status of vocational education and general education is equally important in the form of law.
? College is no longer the "ceiling" of vocational education, and vocational education at undergraduate level is being carried out. Students in vocational schools and ordinary schools enjoy equal opportunities, whether in continuing education, employment or career development. Legally stipulating that vocational education is as important as general education is conducive to forming a social consensus and promoting the high-quality development of vocational education. Pay attention to improving the recognition of vocational education
According to Ceng Tianshan, deputy director and researcher of the Vocational Education Development Center of the Ministry of Education, due to the influence of China traditional culture, such as "being an excellent scholar is an official", and the rise of vocational education is relatively late compared with general education, the public needs to update their concepts and get rid of stereotypes.
In this regard, the newly revised Vocational Education Law stipulates many "practical measures" to enhance the recognition of vocational education.
For example:
It is clearly stipulated that the state should take measures. Improve the social status and treatment of technical and skilled personnel, carry forward the glory of labor, valuable skills and create a great fashion of the times; Put forward national approval? Organize vocational skills competitions and other activities, provide a platform for technical and skilled personnel to display their skills and learn from each other, and constantly cultivate more high-quality technical and skilled personnel, skilled craftsmen and craftsmen in big countries; Put forward the vocational school students in further education, employment and career development? Enjoy equal opportunities with ordinary school students at the same level. Deepen the integration of production and education and school-enterprise cooperation
"Vocational schools and vocational training institutions should pay attention to the integration of production and education and implement school-enterprise cooperation when implementing vocational education." Among them,? The term "combination of production and education" has replaced the "combination of production and education" in the current law. The change of this word is particularly meaningful.
"In the past, the combination of production and education was lagging behind. New technologies, new processes and new norms of enterprises are often not reflected in schools in time. The relationship between enterprises and schools is similar to' friends help' and is very unstable. " Ceng Tianshan said, how? "Integration" means integration, in which enterprises and schools jointly invest, jointly formulate talent plans, jointly cultivate talents and achieve a win-win situation.
In order to deepen enterprises' participation in vocational education and play its role in school-enterprise cooperation, the newly revised vocational education law further clarifies many measures: the state? Give full play to the important role of enterprises in running schools. Promote enterprises to deeply participate in vocational education. Encourage enterprises to hold high-quality vocational education; Enterprises can? Set up full-time or part-time positions to implement vocational education; Enterprise? The development of vocational education should be included in the corporate social responsibility report; Country? Encourage industry organizations and enterprises to participate in the development of vocational education teaching materials.
In addition, the new vocational education law also contains the right? Enterprises deeply involved in the integration of production and education and school-enterprise cooperation will make incentives such as incentives and tax incentives.
Perfecting the guarantee system and measures of vocational education
According to the statistics of UNESCO, the running cost of vocational education is about three times that of general education. In practice, because more venues, equipment and consumables are needed, holding vocational education itself is a high-input undertaking. In view of this situation, the newly revised Vocational Education Law adds the following provisions:
The state takes measures according to the needs of industrial layout and industrial development. Vigorously develop emerging majors needed by advanced manufacturing industries and support the construction of high-level vocational schools and majors; Country? Optimize the expenditure structure of education funds, make the investment of vocational education funds meet the needs of vocational education development, and encourage multi-channel financing of vocational education development according to law. "At present, the development level of vocational education in various places is basically positively correlated with the local economic development level." Ceng Tianshan believes that the development of vocational education cannot rely entirely on government input. ? It is necessary to find a combination mechanism between the public welfare logic of schools and the market logic of enterprises, and increase vocational education through multiple channels.