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Why are more and more college students "reversely" studying in vocational schools after graduation?

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Nowadays, many people with a bachelor's degree are "reverse" to vocational schools with more pragmatic and forward-looking thinking, opening up a new career path for themselves by mastering a craft, and experiencing a wonderful life in different tracks.

Before choosing the college student technician class of Qingdao Technician College in Shandong Province, Chen Yucong was a little apprehensive, which included the pressure of facing secular concepts and the uncertainty of the future.

After experiencing the ups and downs of employment, he hopes to use the "return to the furnace" to have a dual configuration of "bachelor's degree + skill certificate", so as to improve the competitiveness of the workplace, which is the main reason why Chen Yucong applied for the college student technician class.

The reporter interviewed and found that like Chen Yucong, there are still many people who "put down their bodies" and "return to the furnace" in vocational colleges with more pragmatic and forward-looking thinking. By mastering a craft, they can open up a new career path for themselves and experience a wonderful life on different tracks.

A pragmatic choice in the midst of confusion

In 2023, Chen Yucong is still an undergraduate chemistry student at Liaocheng University. According to the convention, the senior year needs to participate in social practice, Chen Yucong's internship unit is a chemical company in Jimo District, Qingdao City, and his position is injection molding process debugging.

After a few months of internship experience, Chen Yucong became a little confused about his career. "What I learned in college is theoretical knowledge, and I am engaged in workshop technical work, and the advantages are not obvious." What makes Chen Yucong anxious is that the technical content of injection molding process debugging is not high, and the career prospects are average.

When the graduation season came, Chen Yucong's application process was not smooth. "I am neither a graduate student, nor a graduate of 985 or 211 schools, but I have also tried to apply for technical positions, but compared with students who graduated from technical schools, I lack practical ability."

When he was hesitant and confused, Chen Yucong learned about the enrollment information of the college student technician class of Qingdao Technician College. "Two years of schooling", "counterpart employment" and "promotion channel for craftsman talents" attracted Chen Yucong, but the opposition of his parents put pressure on him. "They don't understand and are afraid of jokes from relatives and friends."

Despite this, Chen Yucong still firmly chose to go to the college student technician class to "rebuild". On the day of the registration of new students, more than 20 students in the class, except for two students who were directly promoted from the headquarters of the Technician College, the others were mostly undergraduate graduates who did not go well in job search or had suffered setbacks in their career development, the oldest was 34 years old.

"Times are changing, and so are people's ideas and choices." This is how Chen Yucong felt after communicating with his classmates.

Xu Pibing, a teacher of mechatronics at the college, said frankly that the popularity of the technician class has indeed exceeded expectations, and more than 300 people have signed up in the past 15 years, including more than 100 people with bachelor's degrees. Students who choose the technician class have been engaged in office clerical work, housing agency, takeaway and food delivery, etc., and they have experienced social "tempering", and they have a rational judgment on career planning and employment, so they choose to master a technology more pragmatically and realize their career value through the path of skill growth.

Discover strengths and weaknesses

From university to vocational school, Chen Yucong felt an obvious "unadaptation", especially the switch from "using his brain" to "doing it". "In the past ten years of learning experience, we have been studying hard at the desk, and the current course requires a lot of hands-on practice, and it is obviously not in a state at the beginning."

"Many people are embarrassed and unwilling to do it." Xu Pibing, who has led several technician classes, found that in the practical classes at the beginning of admission, everyone often did not understand the essentials, and lacked the standardization of process operations. In contrast, students who are directly promoted from the main department of the Technician College have a clear advantage.

However, in the view of Wang Xiaolin, who entered the technician college in junior high school, the solid theoretical foundation and learning ability of "college students" can make up for the short-term lack of practical operation.

"At the beginning of the school year, we took them to do it, but with the deepening of theoretical knowledge, their abilities began to be highlighted, and they tutored us again." 20-year-old Wang Xiaolin said that after entering the technician class, the rich experience and learning ability of "college students" have become his valuable nutrition.

"College students' logical thinking ability and ability to find and solve problems are indeed higher." Xu Pibing said that he and many teachers were often "confused" in the college student technician class, and this feeling of collision of ideas in the classroom rarely appeared in ordinary classes.

In this regard, Qingdao Technician College has made many adjustments and teaching and research explorations, such as the implementation of small class management of 20 people, the development of a special talent training program, the selection of a fixed team of teachers to specialize in the teaching tasks of the college student technician class, and the original 6 years of the need to master the course "deconstruction, reconstruction, coupling" into 6 comprehensive courses, to achieve the integration of multiple courses, multiple processes, and multiple types of work.

A large number of drawing and practical exercises every day have made Chen Yucong change from the initial lack of knowledge to the sense of achievement brought by enjoying technology. It used to take half an hour to draw a drawing, but now it takes 15 minutes. In one semester, Chen Yucong drew 18 circuit diagrams, and by solving equipment circuit problems, he deeply realized that only by working together with theoretical and technical skills can he better solve practical problems.

Expand into new career opportunities

The reporter learned that not only in Shandong, but also in Guangdong, Sichuan and other places There are also some vocational colleges that recruit students with bachelor's degree or above. According to the statistics of Guangdong Lingnan Vocational and Technical College, in the past two years, the college has recruited more than 150 graduates with a bachelor's degree or above who have obtained technical skills certificates, and the training direction is mainly psychological counselors, public nutritionists and health managers. Several graduates said that skills learning could give them new space to expand their careers.

The experience of college students "returning" to vocational schools, in addition to helping them master a technology, is more to strengthen their career choices and refresh the conservative cognition of the past - in the modern intelligent workshop, providing technical guidance for front-line workers and taking the road of skill development, which is a trendy and promising track.

Qingdao Hongpu Electric Technology Co., Ltd. has been employing students in the technician class for many years. "Compared with college students, their technical ability is more solid, compared with technical school students, they have higher theoretical knowledge and professionalism, and they are professionals in short supply in enterprises, and they can generally grow into engineers after one or two years of employment. Whether it is treatment or development prospects, there are obvious advantages. Xu Jian, deputy general manager of the company, said.

Engaged in teaching the technician class for college students for 15 years, Xu Pibing has a personal feeling for the changes in the employment needs of enterprises. "Nowadays, enterprises are paying more and more attention to compound talents who pay equal attention to theory and skills, and the training model of college technician classes can meet these needs. Because of this, schools often receive telephone consultations, and many technical colleges want to set up technician classes for college students. ”

Although the prospects are considerable, Xu Pibing still feels powerless in promoting teaching, such as the lack of normative documents for the re-education of college students' skills, which makes there no reference standards for teaching models and curriculum design; People from all walks of life have different evaluations of college students' "return", which needs to be viewed with a more open and inclusive attitude.

On the day of the interview, Chen Yucong and Wang Xiaolin participated in interviews with two state-owned enterprises. "The so-called anxiety is actually because of uncertainty." Along the way, Chen Yucong sighed, "When I chose a more pragmatic skill path, many worries were gone, and only the determination to strive to achieve my goals was left. Source: Workers' Daily