Position and Role of School-enterprise Cooperation in Construction of Higher Vocational Schools’ Practical Teaching System

Abstract

Indeed, competition among enterprises in modern society lies on competition about talent quality. Improving core competitiveness of enterprise talent not only acts as one of the important ways to realize school-enterprise cooperation in high vocational schools' practical teaching but also is a basic approach by which enterprises can realize sustainable development. Thus, it can be said that school-enterprise cooperation is one of the significant methods for high vocational schools' practical teaching. Based on analyzing meaning of school-enterprise cooperation, this thesis elaborates the position and role that school-enterprise cooperation plays in construction of high vocational schools' practical teaching system. 1. Connotation of school-enterprise cooperation After Chinese higher vocational education has developed for over 20 years, school-enterprise cooperation and practical teaching have obtained favorable development, which is sufficiently reflected by the situation that the important role that practical teaching plays in improving higher vocational students' comprehensive quality is approved gradually. This proposes new and higher requirements for practical teaching of higher vocational schools. For this, higher vocational schools should devote themselves to cultivating higher vocational students' practical skills and ability as well as improve their working skills and comprehensive quality on the basis that basic theoretical knowledge teaching is strengthened. Besides, schools should rely on the training base jointly built by school-enterprise cooperation to construct a good platform for practical teaching, combine theory with practice, and lay particular emphasis on comprehensive cultivation of higher vocational students' professional and theoretical knowledge and practical ability. The said school-enterprise cooperation is mainly one of the educational modes, which involves that higher vocational schools sign agreements with employers, realize mutual cooperation, make and carry out cultivation schemes about higher vocational talent via complementary advantages and cultivate talented people with high quality and high skills, who are needed by enterprises urgently. It is called cooperative education in foreign vocational education world. School-enterprise cooperation is a teaching form, which can exert advantages of higher vocational schools and enterprises, use different kinds of educational training environment and sites to combine campus learning with trainings at regular posts of enterprises effectively, let students apply theoretical knowledge and skills to specific work and bring problems that appear in practical training to schools to implement re-cultivation in order to promote comprehensive unification of teaching, learning and doing.