What expectations and recognition do you have for vocational education?

I have been engaged in vocational education for these years, and I am not satisfied with the overall feeling of vocational education. Although the state has given great support to vocational education in recent years, students don't have to pay tuition fees, but also have state grants, so that many students who can't go to high school or have family difficulties can continue their studies, but the fundamental problem has not been solved well. Here I will talk about my personal dissatisfaction with secondary vocational education:

One is the poor quality of students. Because vocational schools are free of exams and tuition fees, the cultural quality of vocational school students is generally poor. Most of them are poor students neglected by teachers in junior high school, and a few are problem students who have been punished in junior high school. They don't realize the fun of learning success, lose interest in learning, lack internal motivation, and often appear late, leave early, skip class, sleep in class, don't want to practice, and even fight. This has caused great pressure and burden to the education and teaching work of schools, teachers and class teachers. Many teachers don't want to be class teachers, because students are too difficult to discipline, and students have to deal with all kinds of headaches from time to time. But once a fight happens, it will not only take time and energy to deal with it, but also be rejected by one vote in the assessment of the class teacher. This makes many class teachers lose their enthusiasm for work, thinking that as long as students don't fight and have an accident, everything will be fine and nothing else will matter.

Second, the professional setting is unreasonable. Most of the majors in vocational schools are conformity, and it is not based on the needs of local economy and industry development that they compete to set up which majors when they see hot spots. For example, preschool education and car maintenance, which are popular now, are offered in many secondary vocational schools, and the enrollment is large. However, after graduation, the supply of these majors exceeds demand, making it more difficult to find jobs. Some students can't find jobs after graduation, and many parents think that they can't find jobs in secondary vocational schools, which will affect the development and reputation of secondary vocational education.

Third, the quality of running a school is not ideal. The development of some secondary vocational schools pays more attention to quantity than quality and enrollment, and the improvement of running quality is far behind the needs of the rapid development of schools and the times. No longer pay attention to the improvement of students' skill level and the cultivation of comprehensive quality, but only require students to take enough credits to get a diploma. In the end, many students' knowledge and skills are far from meeting the needs of survival. Many employers reflect that students in secondary vocational schools have low comprehensive quality, insufficient practical ability and unsound theoretical knowledge.

Fourth, teachers are weak. In order to meet the needs of expanding the scale of running a school, vocational schools need to recruit a large number of teachers. Many college graduates can only find jobs if they pass the recruitment examination in vocational schools. Young teachers learn more theoretical knowledge in university, but their skill level and practical ability can't meet the teaching needs. So many students just learn some superficial knowledge of their major. Bian Xiao heard that a young teacher of a major in a secondary vocational school lost in the teacher skills competition for three years in a row. Can such a teacher teach the talents needed by the industry? The answer is no, vocational schools should combine career development with students' skills learning needs, hire industry experts to teach skills in enterprises, and train a large number of double-qualified teachers in the school teachers, so that students can learn more professional skills knowledge that keeps pace with the times.

Generally speaking, China's current vocational education is still relatively weak, which has not adapted to the needs of economic and social development in today's era. Vocational schools should raise awareness and develop vocational education from the starting point of cultivating great craftsmen for national modernization.