eastday.com: With employment rate over 98%, and 10% of graduates serving the world’s top 500, Vocational Colleges serve as reservoirs of trained professionals

[October 18, 2021] Released by: Publicity Department     

[Liu Yilin with eastday.com, October 17th] Known from the International Youth Scholars Online Forum and the Forum on Occupational Development of Teachers through School-enterprise Cooperation, oriented at the introduction and training of double-position teachers through the cooperation between the college and enterprises alongside the innovative approach of recruiting talents over the “cloud”, Shanghai Urban Construction Vocational College has become the first municipal vocational college in Shanghai to carry out activities for the exchanges among professionals through the new mode featured “cooperation between the college and enterprises” and “Internet+”. Through online academic exchanges, the college will create new platform with all-year-round services for academic exchanges and scientific and technological innovations.

In the first half of this year, at the Shanghai University Talent Work Conference and the Promotion Meeting for the Recruitment of Professionals for Higher Education, it was proposed that upon the global vision and international standards, colleges and universities should take greater efforts to introduce more leading talents with veteran expertise, as well as young professionals and excellent innovation teams, with their focus on the national strategic needs, taking into consideration of the key areas with favorable foundation and advantages in the city as well as the requirements for the construction of first-class professional higher vocational education.

In order to play its role in meeting the goal of high-quality development, realizing a high-quality life and achieving efficient governance in the new development pattern, Shanghai calls for more high-level innovative professionals to accelerate speed of economic and social development concerning the quality and dynamic. As a type of education with particular purposes, vocational education plays an irreplaceable role in promoting the extension of Shanghai’s producer service industry to specialization and high-end value chain, and the upgrading of life service industry to high-quality and diversification.

Centering around the specialty of construction engineering technology, this forum coordinated and linked the other specialties like the application of artificial intelligence, health and elderly care, and hotel management other specialties, and set up posts closely around the needs of discipline development, the construction of first-class higher vocational education and application for the upgrading to the level of graduate education. Aiming to attract a group of young and middle-aged scholars with excellent academic background and academic potential at home and abroad to come to Shanghai, this forum serves as an platform for exchanges and cooperation for outstanding young scholars at home and abroad through the form of academic exchange and cooperation on hot issues in the academic frontier, so as to welcome the outstanding young professionals abroad to come to the vocational colleges in Shanghai for innovations and entrepreneurship.

In recent years, adhering to the orientation of vocational education and strengthening the integration of industry and education as well as school-enterprise cooperation, Shanghai Urban Construction Vocational College has been sparing no efforts in attracting professionals through the deepened school-enterprise cooperation and innovative methods for the recruitment of professional upon its strength and fame as a collage of urban construction at the opportunity of being selected as the construction pilot of Shanghai first-class higher vocational colleges and upgrading to the undergraduate level vocational university. Focusing on urban construction with its aims at the industrial chain and job clusters of green city, smart city and healthy city, the Collage has established an integrated pattern for the management of the school offering “the education for secondary professional education, vocational education and undergraduate education” through “academic education, skill training and competition of technical skills”. The teachers and students of the College have won more than 500 awards in competitions of the provincial and ministerial level and above, and the employment rate of the graduates is more than 98%, of which 10% service in the world’s top 500 or national top 100 construction enterprises.

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