1. Tianjin Binhai Vocational College is a public higher vocational college approved by Tianjin Municipal People's Government in 2000.
Formerly a regional adult amateur education institution, the College was founded in 1958, which is called Tianjin Amateur Foreign Languages Institute. 1962 changed its name to Tianjin Tanggu Staff Amateur University, 198 1 changed its name to Tianjin Tanggu Staff University, and 1995 merged with Tanggu Workstation of Tianjin Open University. Tanggu Second Vocational Secondary School (National Key Vocational Secondary School) merged 1999. In the same year, it was identified by the Municipal Education Commission as the first batch of higher vocational pilot schools in Tianjin. In 2000, it was transformed into a full-time ordinary institution of higher learning, forming a multi-type, multi-form and multi-level higher education institution focusing on higher vocational education, including adult higher education, training and continuing education, distance and open education and so on.
Adhering to the responsibility of educating people, around the regional social and economic development, the school has trained more than10.5 million graduates with academic qualifications and more than 30,000 graduates with non-academic qualifications. We are proud that eight current district leaders, more than 300 current department-level cadres have graduated from our school, as well as management cadres and technical backbones from all walks of life. Over the past 47 years, the college has kept up with the development of the times, and its scale has grown from small to large, which has created remarkable school-running benefits and won a good social reputation. After the transformation of the college, it has been deeply cared by the leaders of the city and district and all walks of life, and has given strong support and help from the aspects of policy, mechanism, people, finance and materials. In 2002, a new campus with a building area of 1 10000 square meters was built on a piece of land of more than 640 mu which is most beneficial to the long-term development of the college. At the same time, the original campus (North Campus) located in densely populated areas is reserved for adult education. The district government has specially reserved more than 300 mu of land connected with the new campus for the expansion and development of the school.
The new campus of the college is located in Tanggu, the center of Binhai New Area. Binhai New Area, established in 1994, is located at the intersection of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the city belt around Bohai Sea, and is in the center of the economic circle around Bohai Sea. It is bordered by the deep ocean, connected with Haikou, relying on the Three Norths and facing Northeast Asia. It is an important hub connecting north and south, east and west, and connecting home and abroad. The famous Tianjin Port, Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone, Tianjin Port Bonded Zone and Tianjin Marine High-tech Development Zone are all located here. The superior geographical environment provides a good development space for the college.
The 11th Five-Year Development Plan of the Central Committee clearly puts forward: "Continue to play the role of Shanghai Special Economic Zone and Pudong New Area, promote the development and opening-up of Tianjin Binhai New Area and other areas with good conditions, and promote regional economic development." The major decision of the central government once again provides a rare opportunity for the high-level and rapid development of the college.
The school has 48 experimental training rooms and 47 off-campus practice training bases. The opening rate of professional practice training courses is 1.000%, and the total value of teaching instruments and equipment is 23.82 million yuan.
The college library has a collection of 480,000 books (including e-books) and about 600 Chinese and foreign periodicals and magazines. There are 740 seats in the reading room and 80 seats in the electronic reading room/kloc-0. There is a 100 megabyte campus network with interfaces all over offices, laboratories, conference rooms, classrooms and dormitories.
The college is mainly engaged in higher vocational education, with 25 majors in 9 teaching entities and 2 departments in 6 departments, of which 1 college, among which international business major is a national-level reform pilot major.
As of June, 2005, there are 343 faculty members in the college, including 2 14 full-time teachers, 43 teachers with senior titles, accounting for 20.09%, 65 young teachers with graduate education or above, accounting for 33%, and "double-qualified" teachers 125, accounting for 59.8% of full-time teachers in professional courses.
The enrollment scope of the college is high school graduates from 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. As of June 2005, there were 5 178 full-time students. In the past three years, the employment rate of graduates remained above 93% at the end of the year, and the employment rate reached 97% in 2004.
The development and construction of the college has attracted the general attention of city and district leaders and all walks of life. Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee in charge of education, deputy director of the National People's Congress, deputy mayor of the government, and leaders of Tanggu District Committee, District People's Congress, District Government and District CPPCC visited the school many times to give specific guidance and help. From June 5, 2003 to 10, the vocational education inspection team of China People's Political Consultative Conference inspected our college and spoke highly of its development, construction and school-running achievements.
In international exchanges, the college has established inter-school relations with some universities in Japan, the United States, France, Australia and other countries. 1997 Tianjin Binhai International Language Specialized School was established in cooperation with Tokai College in Tokyo, Japan. In 200 1 year, it was transformed into "Tianjin Binhai International Language Institute" with the approval of the Municipal Education Commission. Mainly set up the major of international business Japanese, and hire Japanese teachers to teach. Some students can go to Japanese universities to study, and some students can go to Japan to arrange employment or study.
The college implements the school-running philosophy of "student-oriented, ability-oriented" and builds the school spirit of "sincerity, firmness, pragmatism, self-discipline and self-improvement, and self-motivation", the teaching spirit of "learning with Excellence, respecting teachers, learning deeply, tackling difficulties, researching with subtlety" and the school spirit of "morality-oriented, ability-oriented, diligent innovation and all-round development". The educational policy of "teaching, management, service and environment" has been formulated. On the premise of improving students' knowledge and skills, comprehensively cultivate students' comprehensive quality. Students' societies such as orchestra, choir, dance team, martial arts team, literature club, English corner, Japanese corner and Siyuan Drama Club have been established, and professional societies such as Deng Xiaoping Theory Research Association, Logistics and Enterprise Management Association, Computer Maintenance Center and Dream Circle Law Society have been established, which fully mobilized the enthusiasm of students to participate in various activities. In addition, the college also holds youth party schools, art festivals and track and field games every year. Taking the construction of campus culture as the carrier, we should cultivate students' awareness of knowledge, beauty, unity and cooperation and the spirit of innovation and creation.
The college conforms to the needs of economic development in coastal areas, with the fundamental task of cultivating applied professionals in production, construction, management and service. Deepen the central position of teaching work, deepen the teaching reform centered on the talent training mode of higher vocational education, and constantly improve the conditions for running schools, and the scale of running schools in the college is expanding year by year. The faculty and staff of the whole hospital are full of confidence in the future of the college. It is believed that in the near future, the second phase of the college construction projects, including indoor swimming pools, gymnasiums, another main teaching building, training building and other buildings will rise, the infrastructure will be more perfect, and the quality of running schools will be further improved. A modern institution of higher learning with higher vocational and regional characteristics will stand on the coast of Bohai Sea.