Hejiang County, Luzhou City is located in the south of Sichuan, bordering Yunnan, Guizhou and Chongqing poor mountainous areas. In recent years, this once quiet small county town has become extremely lively and vivid because of the existence and development of a private vocational school. Leaders, experts and reporters came, and so did their approval, questioning and investigation ... But more people came, still carrying big bags and small bags, and asked the students and parents of "Shao Min Vocational School" as they walked-the miracle of enrollment: 6000 students are enrolled every year, more than 65438 students +65438 students+0,000 students. They have just started from a school since 1999. From tens of acres to 250 acres, from 3,000 people to 654.38+10,000 people, from the original assets of 654.38+10,000 yuan to the current assets of 60 million yuan, in just four years, Shao Min has gone through a difficult and tortuous road to entrepreneurship, and Shao Min has created a miracle! From this, there are thoughts and inspirations brought by Shao Min. On the morning of October 26th, 2003110, the reporter was surrounded by various frequencies as soon as he entered Shao Min Vocational School. It was a break for students. In the corridor of the teaching building in a circle, many students stood on the railing, and no one made any noise, but the sound waves generated by tens of thousands of students even whispering were enough to make people feel "buzzing". The bell rang and entered the large-scale practice class in Shao Min. In the fashion design class, the first-year students have started cutting under the guidance of the teacher. According to Xiao Liu, a girl from Yunnan, this is their second practical class. For the first time, she painted on paper for more than a week, and this time she began to cut it out with cloth. Xiao Liu's dream is to be a designer. She doesn't want to be a tailor. There are about seven or eight computer operation rooms, each with nearly a hundred computers. On the blackboard is the teaching content of this lesson. Students can operate directly on the computer, or design programs or draw patterns. Almost all classes in the computer information management class are completed in the operating room, and students have to touch the computer every day. In the mechatronics operation room, next to the school's new CNC machine tools, students wear clean work clothes and can complete all the operations by themselves. The whole set of equipment is completely consistent with actual production. Almost every practical classroom has banners. Different from the school motto or class motto of ordinary schools, Shao Min's slogan is very practical, close to learning and closer to the work that students are about to face. Such as: start the machine, use the machine, and learn the technology well; Remember the three-point technique. Practical learning in practical class is the most important and main learning content for every student in Shao Min, accounting for 1/3 of the total class hours. In the practical classroom, there are the roar of machines, the friction and knocking of scissors and keyboards, the oil stain left by repairing cars, and the shouts of security class students punching in unison. Hejiang County is the busiest time for Shao Min Vocational School to recruit students every year, which is more festive than the Spring Festival. Since1March, 1999, the county agricultural adult correspondence school was transformed into Shao Min Vocational School, any trend of Shao Min will cause great or small waves in Hejiang County. Someone joked that every time Shao Min Vocational School has a holiday, the price of vegetables in Hejiang will drop. Rough accounting: Shao Min recruits more than 6,000 students from other places every year, including more than 1000 students and more than 700 teachers and students. The total annual consumption of more than 1000 teachers and students is about 30 million yuan, which greatly stimulates and activates local consumption in Hejiang. Employment miracle: the employment rate is as high as 98%, and the number of appointees reaches 7 1%. Shao Min Vocational School started from a factory and a shop. Principal Wang Zhongping led 26 teachers with social experience to form a Shao Min employment liaison group. He went from Hejiang to a strange big city, bought a city map, searched street by street, and asked unit by unit. Shao Min has gradually opened the employment market with sincerity and strength, won the respect and trust of manufacturers, and established an employment network. Today, Shao Min has developed into an employment liaison team of more than 50 people, tracking and researching school graduates, and forming more than 2,000 employers' information websites. The employment scope includes more than 30 large and medium-sized cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wenzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Shunde and Ningbo. By 2003, 28,000 students had graduated in Shao Min, and 27,440 graduates had been placed, with a job placement rate as high as 98%. At the same time, the proportion of reservation personnel for order training increased from 36% to 7 1%. Shao Min has a promise to parents: the school will recommend students according to their comprehensive quality and technical level, and the employment teacher will personally escort students to the employment unit. If the student's employment is inconsistent with the publicity, the school will compensate all the losses and relocate, and inform the parents and accept their supervision. Practice has proved that due to proper deployment and reasonable selection, the probability of unsuccessful placement of students in Shao Min is very small. The only exception is that Shao Min did "report the transportation fee, avoid food and shelter, relocate and re-employment", and these feedback information became an excellent footnote for "Shao Min is sincere and trustworthy". Give birth to a student, and a family will get rid of poverty. This is Shao Min's school-running philosophy and parents' hope for Shao Min. Sun, a family of four, is a student of class 37 in mechatronics. His father lost his labor force, and his mother worked alone to support the whole family. Sun earned his own money to pay his tuition in the last semester. 350 yuan is all 5 Qian Qi's receipts, which makes people cry. Now Sun works in Chengdu after graduation, with a monthly income of 1600 yuan, and has taken good care of his family. Wu Di studied mechatronics and his family was poor. After graduation, after several adventures, the student set up his own machinery factory in Kunming, bringing the whole family into a brand-new track. Shao Min graduates have applied what they have learned, are highly skilled, honest and modest, and are particularly diligent, which is very popular with employers. After the probation period, their salaries are generally above 600 yuan, and some majors reach 1000 yuan. For this information, Shao Min has a special person to follow up and inform the school in time, and then the school informs parents and students: Bai Yang, a computer major graduate, is in charge of the design department in Chengdu Paidi Company, with a monthly salary of more than 3,000 yuan; Yang Cailong, electronic graduate, technical general manager of Beijing Haier Group's after-sales service center, with an annual salary of 60,000 yuan ... These exciting news inspired groups of students and their families. Miracle of running a school: The campus area has multiplied several times. After buying Shao Min, a public vocational school, it was very difficult to run a school at first. From 65438 to 0999, both private education and vocational education were in the low tide of development, lacking policies, theories and successful cases. Shao Min didn't even have a decent school gate at first, and it took several years to sort out the examination and approval procedures of the school. How? What do we do? All these are explored by Shao Min people with one hand and one foot, and the soul figure is the principal Wang Zhongping. Shao Min, one step at a time, operates in debt and develops in a rolling way. He spends tens of millions of yuan every year to demolish houses, expand campuses and build new teaching buildings. In order to solve the problem of insufficient teaching space, Shao Min won the policy from the county government and set aside more than 50 mu of land along the river for use. In 2002, Hejiang county government recovered a piece of commercial land with great development value and sold it to Shao Min, which solved the construction problem of teachers' dormitory in Shao Min. In 2003, Shao Min bought all the assets of Caiba Vocational School, an old vocational school with a history of more than 60 years, at a price of 1 1 ten thousand yuan, which caused a sensation in Hejiang and even the whole province. Starting from several school buildings and more than ten acres of land, the campus is divided into north and south, covering an area of 250 acres. This change is based on the word "dry". If everything is really ready, I'm afraid it's still in the demonstration stage. To talk about the way to run a school, first of all, educators in Shao Min can bear hardships and are not afraid of them. For example, at the beginning, the school couldn't afford new internship equipment, so it went around looking for people to buy old machine tools, old household appliances and old cars, and then repaired them when the students came back. After four years of development and management, Shao Min is now very famous. Some people say that Wang Zhongping got the money this time. But if you really go to Shao Min, you will know that almost all of Shao Min's money is invested in the development of the school, especially the purchase of internship equipment. On the contrary, the administrative building where Shao Min's "Supreme Leader" works is the most dilapidated of all school buildings. Over the years, Shao Min has acquired various professional practice equipment and corresponding equipment, with a value of over 25 million yuan. Secondly, the principal responsibility system is well implemented in Shao Min, with flexible mechanism and special management. For example, open enrollment is implemented to attract junior high school graduates, adults and junior high school dropouts. Break the practice of enrolling students in autumn and enroll students in spring and autumn. In terms of curriculum, in addition to offering courses in accordance with relevant regulations, Shao Min also offers relevant courses that directly meet the needs of employment units. Shao Min now has 443 teachers, including cultural and professional teachers, who can be called skilled practical teachers 108. Students in Shao Min attend classes for six and a half days a week, with only half a day off. The rest day is scheduled for Thursday afternoon. In order to shorten the time for students to become talents, let them learn as much knowledge as possible in two years. Wang Zhongping has some "know-how" in management. For example, Shao Min ensures that every student has 1 yuan to eat well at school, so the school has built 13 internal canteens, which are evaluated every day. If the students in any canteen are not popular enough, the school will immediately replace them. This practice not only mobilizes the enthusiasm of canteen staff, but also ensures the interests of students, which is very effective. The third is Shao Min's concern and sensitivity to the market. What kind of major does the market need? What kind of students do you need? Is Shao Min's greatest concern. The school collects information by reading newspapers, surfing the Internet, sending people to the market for research, and talking with private enterprise bosses. A vice-principal in charge of employment in the school, who has been away for many years, has a profound understanding and accurate understanding of the market, which is reflected in Shao Min's "Running a School in Time". In the past four years, the major in Shao Min has developed from the initial few to the present 13, which is constantly tested or promoted by the market. For example, driving, secretarial and security, many vocational schools are independent majors. Once, when Shao Min Vocational School recommended students to a security company, it was found that security, secretarial work and driving work were actually interchangeable occupations in a company. A graduate who can be a security guard, a secretary and a driver at the same time is most popular with employers. Inspired by this, Shao Min opened a comprehensive major of driving, writing and protection. Results The graduates of this major were very popular, and the employment rate reached 100%. Shao Min has created a miracle of private vocational schools. After the initial attention and scrutiny, the Shao Min phenomenon has been recognized and supported by more and more people. At the just-concluded conference on private education in Sichuan Province, Shao Min won the advanced collective medal of private education in Sichuan Province, and Wang Zhongping, the principal, was also rated as an advanced individual in private education in Sichuan Province. One of the hidden worries: running a school needs to be standardized. At the beginning of the business, there were still many irregularities in Shao Min's operation, such as enrolling students and grabbing students. Nowadays, the development of the school has been on the right track, but there are no strict rules and regulations on related issues. The second worry: management needs to be summarized. Shao Min's management has begun to take shape, but it tends to be "family style". At the same time, in the face of such a large-scale school, there are many things that need to be summarized and studied, but Shao Min lacks such information and file management now. The third hidden worry: development needs thinking. How to accommodate 1 10,000 students on 250 mu of land and hold vocational education and general education at the same time is a problem that Shao Min must seriously consider. The fourth worry: employment needs to be strengthened. Whether Shao Min's employment network and channels can withstand the ever-changing market test, whether they can always find suitable space and whether they need more modern ways and means are also issues that many people are concerned about. Revelation Yuan Huabin, Director of Education Bureau of Luzhou City: Shao Min's success has four indispensable factors: First, distinctive vocational education characteristics. Emphasis on training and practice, students' schoolwork is mostly completed in practical operation and they can work after leaving school. Second, running a school closely follows the market. Whether it is professional setting or employment placement, it is based on the market; At the same time, it is sincere and trustworthy, and it is considered for students and parents to the maximum extent, and it has won trust and respect. Third, work hard and don't be eager for quick success. All the money earned by Shao Min is invested in the development of the school. The headmaster didn't take it, and neither did the teachers at school. This team has stood the test. Four, independent school, flexible mechanism. Shao Min's life depends on his autonomy. Whether it is specialty setting, enrollment and employment or teacher appointment, managers in Shao Min have absolute autonomy. Shao Min now has a brand effect, which has stunned many public schools. Inspired by Shao Min, Luzhou Education Bureau is considering transforming public vocational high schools.