As one of the regions with the highest degree of openness and the strongest innovation ability in China, the Yangtze River Delta region has created nearly 1 4 percent of the country's total economic output with less than 4% of the country's land area.
Realize the two-way flow of production and education with collaborative innovation
The Yangtze River Delta region is highly industrially intensive, highly concentrated with talents, and has a complete and clear industrial chain, which provides unique conditions for the deep integration of industry and education, and the two-way collaborative education of industry and education. The big goal, big plan and big development of the Yangtze River Delta region require the big feelings, big pattern and big contribution of vocational education.
To achieve the deep integration of industry and education, we need to bear in mind the greatness of the country. ** At the symposium on in-depth promotion of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, the general secretary emphasized that new major breakthroughs should be made in promoting the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, and that it should be at the forefront of Chinese-style modernization, and better play the role of pioneering exploration, leading demonstration, and radiation. This also puts forward new and higher requirements for vocational education in the Yangtze River Delta Development Zone, focusing on the "three major tasks" of promoting the renewal of traditional industries, the growth of emerging industries, and the cultivation of future industries, and actively implement the "three major actions" of intelligent transformation, digital transformation, and network linkage, and constantly encrypt the spatial linkage, industrial linkage, and supply linkage with the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, so as to create a highland for the development of vocational education in the Yangtze River Delta Development Zone, and provide talent support and intellectual support for the high-quality development and modernization of the Yangtze River Delta.
To realize school-enterprise collaborative education, it is necessary to jointly build a platform base. Vocational colleges in the Yangtze River Delta Development Zone should continue to expand new channels, absorb the environmental resources of the Development Zone, build a sharing platform for vocational colleges in the Development Zone, and a platform for industry-education cooperation, create a highland for vocational education clusters in the Development Zone, give full play to the "agglomeration-spillover" effect of vocational education in the Development Zone, and transform it into the development resources of the school. Taking the Wuxi Vocational College of Science and Technology, where the author is located, as an example, there are 6 characteristic industry colleges and 220 training bases, including the Wuxi High-tech Zone Talent Training College and the Integrated Circuit Specialized and Special New Industry College, which are jointly built by the school-enterprise cooperation committee, which promote the close connection between professional layout, talent training and industrial demand; The Xinwu District Community College, the Industrial Workers College, and the Veterans Employment and Entrepreneurship College, led by the school-local cooperation committee, have formed a network of education and training that serves the whole region. In Wuxi High-tech Zone, an integrated development pattern of "one vertical and one horizontal" has been formed with Wuxi Academy of Sciences as the platform interface, facing industries, enterprises and territories, and running through the streets of the park.
To enhance the ability to increase the advantages of vocational education development
The development zone is not only the source of the new economy and new technology, but also the birthplace of new occupations and new professions. It is an important path to shape the development advantages of vocational education in the Yangtze River Delta Development Zone and show the responsibility of vocational education to build the major in the industrial chain and build the school in the development zone, improve the development ability of the professional service industry, and improve the adaptability of talent training.
To promote the construction of connotation, it is necessary to deepen the reform of the "three educations". Connotation construction is the premise of high-quality development of vocational education, and the reform of "three educations" is an important starting point for connotation construction. In order to better serve the social and economic development of the Yangtze River Delta region, it is necessary to promote the reform of teachers by establishing a high-level teaching innovation team, building a high-quality "double-teacher" teacher team, and optimizing the teacher management system of vocational colleges. By adapting to the industrial development of the Yangtze River Delta Development Zone, formulating vocational education teaching standards, developing information-based teaching resources, and organizing teaching content that can be dynamically updated to promote the reform of teaching materials; The school-enterprise cooperation that can reflect the industrial development level of the development zone and the combination of education and training to meet the requirements of enterprises in the development zone are taken as the entry point of teaching reform, and digital technology is used to promote the reform of teaching methods. Conscientiously implement the concept of "learning-centered", pay attention to the internal driving force and personalized development of students' learning, change the assessment and evaluation of teachers' "teaching" to pay more attention to the assessment and evaluation of students' "learning", systematically build a new teaching system from the system, method and assessment guarantee, and improve the adaptability of talent training.
To improve service capabilities, we need to innovate systems and mechanisms. For example, Wuxi Vocational College of Science and Technology pays attention to the exploration and practice of "district-school integration" in the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, and forms a "Academy of Sciences +" vocational education system led by the council and echoing the industrial structure between districts and schools. The high-tech zone will take the lead in setting up the council, with the secretary of the district party working committee and the director of the management committee serving as the chairman, the main party and government leaders of the school and the relevant district leaders serving as the vice presidents, and the heads of relevant ministries and commissions and the streets of the park serving as the directors. In accordance with the three-tier organizational structure of "Council-Special Committee-Project Joint Management Committee" and the first-class operation mechanism of "planning and decision-making-overall coordination-organization and implementation", the Council is demand-oriented and takes the co-construction project as the substantive operation platform to realize the substantive transformation of the integration of industry and education from loose to close, extensive to subdivided, virtual to physical, and short-term to long-term.
Upgrade the vocational education development track with the construction of "double highs".
In the new era, the Yangtze River Delta region should "be at the forefront of Chinese-style modernization", and vocational education in the Yangtze River Delta Development Zone should find the right target positioning, upgrade the development track with the national "double high" school construction standards, explore the construction of a new paradigm of vocational education integration in the Yangtze River Delta, and reflect the new responsibility of empowering the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta.
To adapt to the new requirements of development, it is necessary to optimize the positioning of vocational education. In the context of "promoting the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta to achieve new major breakthroughs", for vocational colleges located in the Yangtze River Delta Development Zone, accurate type positioning is particularly important. First of all, we must adhere to the "four aspects", that is, lifelong education for everyone, market-oriented employment education, ability-oriented practical education, and society-oriented cross-border education; Second, it is necessary to properly handle the "five relationships", that is, to determine the model by the relationship between general occupation, by the relationship between industry and education, by the relationship between industry and education, by the relationship between school and enterprise, by the relationship between teachers and students, and by the relationship between China and foreign countries.
To gallop on the new track of development, it is necessary to focus on the diversified governance of vocational education. To serve the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta at a high level, vocational education in the Yangtze River Delta Development Zone must benchmark the national "double high" construction, upgrade the development track, and improve the governance capacity. Specifically, it is necessary to cultivate "four haves" newcomers with "love in their hearts, people in their eyes, art in their hands, and goods in their stomachs" through the "four adjustments" measures such as optimizing the talent training program, adjusting the contradiction between talent supply and demand, adjusting the environment inside and outside the school, and reconciling the relationship between stakeholders, so as to realize the satisfaction of students, families, enterprises, and society, and create a community of shared future for vocational education of "co-creation, co-construction, win-win, and sharing", and form a new model of integrated governance of vocational education in the Yangtze River Delta from polycentric governance to embedded collaboration.
The author is the chairman of the Vocational Education Development Alliance of the Yangtze River Delta Development Zone and the president of Wuxi Vocational College of Science and Technology. This paper is one of the most important research projects of higher education reform in Jiangsu Province in 2023, "Research on the Construction and Practice of Cultural Education System in Higher Vocational Colleges Based on Municipal Industry-Education Consortium".
China Education Daily, February 20, 2024, page 3
Author: Sun Xingyang.