The pursuit of Excellence is endless.
The college now has four academic systems: three-year junior college, five-year higher vocational education, "3+2" higher vocational education and ordinary secondary vocational education, with more than 3,200 students. The college is divided into north and south parts, covering an area of 102 mu and a school building of 60,000 square meters. There are majors such as tour guide, hotel service and management, tourism service and management, foreign affairs reception and management, English tour guide, Japanese tour guide, Korean tour guide, tourism secretary, aviation crew and tourism management, tourism art, etc. Among them, hotel management major is the first batch of national demonstration majors approved by the Ministry of Education, and tour guide major is the backbone major in the province. The college has advanced teaching facilities and first-class educational environment. Campus network system with broadband internet access, fully equipped simulation lobby, simulation guest room, simulation Chinese and western restaurant, wine mixing room, tour guide room, visual language laboratory, multifunctional audio-visual room, physical training room, microcomputer room and multimedia classroom.
19 Since its establishment, Taiyuan Tourism Vocational College, with the support of provincial and municipal leaders at all levels and under the leadership of the Municipal Education Bureau, has conscientiously implemented the national education policy, adhered to the school-running concept of "all for students, all for students", based on the local economy, focused on social development, and adhered to the school-running idea of "aiming at industries to set up majors, aiming at posts to open courses, aiming at the market to cultivate talents", and strived to build a professional education model and take quality education. Especially in recent years, under the leadership of Dean Wang Chunling (Taiyuan Super Model Worker), the faculty and staff of the whole hospital are determined to forge ahead and strive to develop, give full play to the advantages of the multi-level and diversified school-running mode of the college, and take advantage of the brand education advantages of running schools jointly with Beijing Foreign Studies University to build a higher vocational education mode suitable for the development of tourism in our province. College graduates are all over the country, and a considerable number of them have become senior management talents of enterprises. College has been awarded many honorary titles, such as "advanced unit of vocational education in Taiyuan", "model unit of spiritual civilization in Taiyuan", "model worker in Taiyuan" and "advanced unit of vocational education in Shanxi Province".
Characteristic thoughts make famous schools with characteristics.
Based on the times, focusing on the society and serving the local economy is the theme of the development of Taiyuan Tourism Vocational College. According to the economic development strategy of our province and the demand for tourism talents, the college breaks through the traditional education and teaching mode, relies on industry resources, docks brand education, implements open school running, and boldly constructs diversified school running mode.
Taiyuan Tourism Vocational College is a market-oriented integrated enterprise, relying on the joint operation of the industry and the Provincial Tourism Bureau, and relying on the industry advantages and management functions of the Provincial Tourism Bureau to ensure the initiative of the college. In order to fully tap the potential of "industry", a valuable external educational resource, and give full play to the educational function of "industry" in vocational education, the college has successively signed joint school-running agreements with Shanxi Business International Travel Service and Yijing International Hotel. College teachers work part-time as tour guides or middle managers of travel agencies and hotels, and business owners and experts are employed as visiting professors in colleges and universities, thus achieving zero-distance contact between schools and enterprises and ensuring that the direction of running schools and the teaching content meet the market demand.
The acquisition of professional characteristics is the embodiment of personality, and characteristics are the soul of life. In recent years, the rapid rise of Taiyuan Tourism Vocational College has benefited from its clear school-running ideas. "Setting majors with an eye on industries, setting courses on posts, and cultivating talents with an eye on needs" has become the school-running idea of the college's specialty construction. In order to meet the market demand of detailed division of labor in tourism specialty in recent years, according to the laws of social, economic, scientific and technological development and vocational education, the school has reformed, optimized and adjusted the curriculum of traditional majors, established a dynamic teaching plan to adapt to market changes, and opened new majors such as aviation crew, Japanese tour guide, Korean tour guide, Min language tour guide, tourism art and e-commerce. After analyzing and predicting the future development of the industry, it began to reserve tourism with market potential. Through the above measures, the characteristics of tourism specialty have been maintained and brought into play, laying a good foundation for graduates' future employment.
Strengthening foreign language teaching to provide guarantee for professional development. In the face of market changes, the college adjusted its teaching plan in time, decisively cut off some subjects that did not meet the post requirements, increased foreign language courses, and equipped foreign teachers for colleges and universities. In terms of teaching objectives, secondary school students must pass the basic requirements of professional English, and junior college students must pass the national unified examination. English certificate has become a necessary qualification certificate for students.
Docking brands, highlighting benefits, docking brand education and strengthening dominant majors are another school-running idea of Taiyuan Tourism College. Since its establishment, the college has gained advantages in teaching modes such as tour guide, hotel service and management, tourism service and management, teacher training, teaching reform and facility construction. Relying on high-quality educational resources at home and abroad, we will connect China Tourism Cadre Management College and Beijing No.2 Foreign Teacher's domestic teaching. Internationally, technical secondary schools will connect with "Australia" hotels, and junior colleges will connect with "Golden Key" training. We will send hotel interns to Japan and introduce British BTC courses to strengthen and expand tourism specialty.
Relying on the educational resources of "North Second Foreign Languages Institute" and the intangible assets of famous universities, the college actively carried out educational reform, and accumulated rich experience in establishing higher vocational education in tourism colleges through the wonderful lectures of experts, careful guidance of professors and the practice of young teachers in North Second Foreign Languages Institute, which enabled the school to successfully complete the task of higher education and teaching. The qualification rate of the first junior college graduates is 98%. Except for some graduates who continue to study in the "Northern Second Foreign Language School", most students directly enter the enterprise management after leaving school, and the employment rate reaches 100%. The quality and social benefits of docking with brand education are immediately highlighted.
With the advent of the era of knowledge-based economy and trade globalization, the demand for talents in foreign-related markets is increasing day by day, and the college strives to cultivate international foreign-related talents to adapt to the development of modern economy. In 2002, Taiyuan Tourism Vocational College started the docking project with Australian class of China Tourism Management Cadre College and Golden Key Professional Certificate class of China Hotel, made an agreement with Japan Hotel Management Association to study in Japan, actively contacted Swiss International Hotel Management College and other well-known overseas industries, and cooperated in further studies (study abroad), training, internship and employment, especially in foreign language teaching, which greatly improved the school-running level and level of the college, accumulated the connotation of its development, and successfully realized the college.
Consolidate the industry foundation and build an excellent team of teachers.
Teachers are the core strength of the school. Teachers with high teaching level and strong scientific research ability are the foundation of a school. The college adheres to the principle of "strengthening school-based training and professional training based on the existing teaching staff". The college organizes teachers or conducts teaching research, participates in academic exchanges, training and advanced classes, and helps teachers to be on the job, especially in the training of professional teachers. The school is willing to make great efforts to send teachers to enterprises for part-time or temporary employment, and all the expenses will be borne by the school. The college has made a relatively complete training plan for all teachers. Up to now, 100% of professional teachers are double-qualified teachers. After years of practice, Taiyuan Tourism Vocational College has a double-qualified team with solid theoretical knowledge, excellent professional skills and reasonable age structure. Among them, there are 206 full-time teachers and 55 teachers with senior titles, accounting for 26.7% of the total number of teachers; Professional teachers 106, 65 double-qualified teachers, accounting for 62% of the total number of majors. The culture teacher won the group award of the whole city's teaching basic skills competition. 16 The teacher won the first, second and third prizes respectively. In the Tour Guide Competition held in Taiyuan City in 2003, the college teachers won the first, second and third place in the professional group, and were praised as "tourist stars".
Thirty-seven professional teachers have obtained national tour guide qualification certificates, many of them have obtained foreign language tour guide qualification certificates, and 8 have obtained travel agency general manager qualification certificates. Among the seven intermediate tour guides in Shanxi Province, there are three in Taiyuan Tourism Vocational College, and many of them have won the honorary titles of "Top Ten Tour Guides in Shanxi Province", "Excellent Tour Guides in Shanxi Province" and "Excellent Tour Guides in Taiyuan City" for many times in professional competitions, with 65,438+. Many teachers majoring in hotel management and tourism management went to Shangri-La International Hotel Group, Nanjing Jinling Hotel and other well-known five-star hotels to study, inspect and take professional certificates.