In the internship of cooking majors in vocational schools, they have not even entered the kitchen door. Is it just washing dishes?
The reason why vocational colleges are not recognized by the public in China is that the path from major selection to graduation to employment is unclear. The division of labor in the entire chain is partly Vocational schools, employers, and even regulatory authorities are all absent.
Relatedly, what everyone has been reacting to recently is the issue of shunting for high school entrance examinations or shunting for college entrance examinations. As an educator, I am concerned about this issue.
Whether it is 9 years of basic education, which is gradually diverted after the high school entrance examination, or 12 years of basic education, which is gradually diverted after graduating from junior high school, a crucial issue is covered here. The movements of the children. After the high school entrance examination, those who did not successfully enter the general high school, a large number of old classmates reunited and chose to enter vocational colleges, that is, vocational high schools.
Many vocational high school (secondary vocational school) students enter the school because they have a certain skill and can find a stable job after graduation. Students who have learned professional skills in professional courses can After graduation, I will choose a matching company to intern and eventually start working directly.
This is also the dream situation interpreted by ordinary people, even parents and students, but it is not like this. Before discussing this issue, the editor realized through some channels such as my country's e-government platform that there are many students in vocational schools who "joke" about "unpleasant" separation and even all kinds of bizarre internship experiences.
According to her description: The internship is to carry baskets of dishes and bowls, take out the garbage with one pass, and carry a whole basin of water in the mountain basin! Like a yo-yo, the reality of spinning in circles among dirty dishes, dirty bowls, and slop buckets made her feel extremely ups and downs. She couldn't persevere, and her boss ran away. Those who had the same experience as her were students from the same class and the same major. Some were assigned to the hotel front desk, and some were assigned to the housekeeping department, but they did not go to the kitchen.
"Unbalanced" internship, many students who went to vocational schools have similar experiences. Those majoring in tourism were assigned to do cleaning services in hotels and restaurants; those majoring in advertising design were assigned to tighten screws in a hardware factory. After doing so for more than half a year, they forgot all about their technical majors.
Not all vocational colleges in China will have such problems. The mere existence of this situation is a bad trend on the road of higher vocational education.
Not long ago, you have also seen that eight units including the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Industrial Production and Information Technology issued the newly revised "Regulations on the Internship Management of Vocational School Students." It has clearly defined the “bottom line” for internship management, stipulating that simple, inefficient, or high-resilience work that has nothing to do with the profession cannot be assigned, “it is prohibited to violate regulations for internships for the purpose of profit,” and it is stipulated that internship companies should provide Internships with students are moderately remunerated.
In order to increase the weight of vocational colleges in future social development and the weight of higher vocational education, students who are diverted after the high school entrance examination or the college entrance examination can successfully join the campus. , and then transporting a large number of professional and technical talents to the society, the development of China's vocational education will have a long way to go.