In China, relevant data show that there is a shortage of 600,000 CNC machine tool operators in China alone. Some enterprises offer some key senior technicians a high salary of several hundred thousand yuan a year, but they just can't recruit people, so they have to hire laid-off senior technicians from abroad. In this regard, some people blame it on social professional prejudice, which is mainly caused by irrational educational concepts. On the surface, this reason is valid, but it is biased.
No one is born with professional prejudice. At present, the motivation of vocational education is insufficient, which basically lies in the lack of attention to manufacturing industry and the lack of supporting systems from education to employment and from rights protection to salary protection, which leads to the low enthusiasm of the public to participate in vocational education. More importantly, the innovation of manufacturing industry is not strong, the mode of economic development is still in the primary stage of generation processing, and discrimination in vocational education can not be solved by the dual-track system of college entrance examination.
The current college entrance examination method is not an obstacle to vocational education, and whether there is a dual-track system does not affect the freedom of choice. Some critics say that vocational education has now become synonymous with "civilian education", and even the children of people who say vocational education is important generally do not go to vocational schools. In fact, the unhealthy development of vocational education faces many challenges. First, there are misunderstandings in the choice of education, and teachers themselves do not have much technical practice, so it is naturally difficult to cultivate first-class students. Second, the relationship between school and enterprise is not close, and students either study rigidly at school or become "unpaid volunteers" in enterprises; Third, there is a lack of first-class vocational and technical colleges and specialized and standardized teaching materials in China; Fourth, there is no reliable employment security and stable growth space for technical talents, and the input and output are seriously unbalanced.
If the dual-track system of college entrance examination is only a change in supply, then how to activate demand is the core of reform. Because eliminating prejudice in vocational education is never just an educational problem, it is also a proposition of market economy.