In recent years, the phenomenon of college students returning to vocational schools has increased year by year. It is reported that in Anhui, Shandong and other provinces, it is nothing new for college students to return to vocational schools, and many vocational schools even set up "college classes".
There is a joke in the job market: "Undergraduates are running all over the street, and skilled workers have nowhere to find them." Is that really the case? Why do technical school students become "fragrant cakes" in the eyes of enterprises?
College students just walked out of the ivory tower and entered the technical school?
At present, domestic education is divided into two lines, one is the subject education in the education department, and the other is the vocational skills education in the labor and social security departments.
Since 1999, the expansion of colleges and universities in China, more and more young people have obtained the opportunity to receive higher education. According to the data of the Ministry of Education, from 2000 to 20 14, the average annual growth rate of college enrollment was 10.7%, and the admission rate increased from 59% to 74.33%, which was 2.3 times that of 1978.
The average number of college students per100000 population has increased by more than three times, and the proportion of graduates in the newly added urban population in that year has increased from 12.86% to 6 1.62%. By 20 16, the number of college graduates will reach 7.65 million.
Number of students in institutions of higher learning from 2000 to 2009 (ten thousand)
With millions of college graduates flocking to the labor market every year, the number of college graduates far exceeds the number of recruitment posts, which brings about increasingly prominent employment problems.
However, after analyzing the market supply and demand of public employment service institutions in some cities in Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, it is found that the demand for workers with technical grades and titles is greater than the supply.
Taking the data released by Chongqing Employment Bureau as an example, from the perspective of occupational classification, there were as many as 208,000 skilled jobs in the public human resources market in Chongqing in 20 16, and 33,000 general job seekers were the first choice for college graduates to apply for jobs.
From the perspective of skill level, 14.7% of jobs put forward clear requirements for technical skills, but those without technical level or professional title in the market are still job seekers, and skilled talents are still in short supply.
Looking at another set of data, the initial employment rate of secondary vocational graduates exceeded 95% for nine consecutive years, and the employment rate of higher vocational graduates exceeded 90% for three consecutive years after half a year. Yuan Guiren, Minister of Education, said in an interview on 20 16 that the initial employment rate of 13 college graduates was over 70%.
Of course, the above data is not enough to prove that "undergraduates are running all over the street and skilled workers have nowhere to find" has become the norm in the job market. Netease Research Bureau believes that instead of discussing whether it is correct for college students to return to technical schools, it is better to pay attention to why the labor market favors technical school graduates.
Why do technical school students become the darling of enterprises?
In recent years, some college students have entered various vocational colleges to "reinvent themselves" after graduation or working for a period of time. Some practical majors, such as cloud software development, UI design, animation game design, e-commerce and so on. It has become the favorite direction of "returning to the furnace" college students.
Why on earth do college graduates go back to technical schools?
1. Economic development and system transformation are the objective reasons that affect college students' "returning to the furnace".
In recent years, with the deepening of reform and opening up, the computer industry and IT industry have developed rapidly, constantly affecting the economic development of modern society.
In today's society, clothing, food, shelter and transportation can be solved by one-click network. Now, shopping also has various payment functions of mobile phones, instead of traditional functions such as cash and bank cards. The major offered by our school for social needs is only a practical major that conforms to the influence of current social and economic development.
Moreover, the economical and innovative economic development of society mainly depends on the combination, optimization and upgrading of China's industrial structure, which urgently needs tens of millions of highly skilled talents and hundreds of millions of high-quality workers.
This provides a good opportunity for the development of vocational skills education, thus providing an objective possibility for college students to "return to the furnace" technical school.
2. The structure of higher education is unbalanced, and the goal of cultivating talents in colleges and universities is out of touch with economic development.
Since the expansion of university enrollment in 1999, many students who used to specialize in skill-based fields have poured into research-oriented universities, which has led to a sharp expansion of the number of college students.
On the contrary, it is difficult for some powerful technical schools to recruit students, and the number of students in technical schools is small and poor, resulting in a shortage of new skilled jobs.
In addition, some educators pointed out that the professional setting of colleges and universities is seriously out of touch with the market. There are basically several types of colleges and universities competing for new majors:
The first is the student source fishing type. The purpose of taking a new major is to recruit more students, so take as many majors as possible. Schools especially like "soft" majors with less investment and quick results, which can be set up with a few books and teachers, while "hard" majors such as engineering technology, CNC machine tools, machinery and electronics, which need equipment and instruments and invest a lot, generally do not "catch a cold".
The second type is decentralized employment pressure type. The concentration of students in several majors will artificially cause employment pressure, so some schools will split their majors to alleviate the pressure.
The third is historical dependence. Mainly on the basis of the original major, set up some related marginal majors. The fourth is marketization. Go to any major that is hot in the market.
How can we train more technicians?
China released the strategic plan "Made in China 2025" in May, 20 15, and vigorously promoted the transformation from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power.
As Premier Li emphasized, China needs "talents with strong hands-on ability and service ability" to make "Made in China" more "high quality manufacturing" and "fine manufacturing".
Since the establishment of 1988, our school has been paying close attention to the market trends and analyzing the market trends, and then setting up the majors needed by the market, cultivating talents in a targeted manner, and making our students "good jobs and good employment"!