[A Written Talk on Education along the Direction of the 20th Party Congress]
Author: Ceng Xuan (Deputy Director of Career Guidance Center of South China Agricultural University, Vice President and Associate Research Fellow of Innovation and Entrepreneurship College)
Employment is the biggest livelihood. The Party’s Report to the 20th CPC National Congress stressed the need to promote high-quality full employment. Carrying out the guidance of college students’ employment and entrepreneurship is an inevitable way to help college students clearly define their development orientation and realize their personal values, improve the quality of employment and entrepreneurship, and then meet the high-quality development of social economy. College students’ employment and entrepreneurship guidance is a systematic project related to students’ future career development and the optimization of talent structure in different industries in China. It requires not only the efforts of colleges and universities themselves, but also the concerted efforts of the government, enterprises, industry organizations and other social entities to strengthen multi-dimensional cooperation in Industry-University-Research and provide professional and meticulous guidance and support for students’ employment and entrepreneurship.
Deepen the Three Holistic Education and Build a Collaborative Model
From the perspective of collaborative education, the guidance of college students’ employment and entrepreneurship needs to coordinate the resources and conditions of all parties to provide students with comprehensive and systematic employment and entrepreneurship services. Schools should implement the concept of "three-round education" at every stage of students’ entering and leaving school, and build a collaborative linkage mechanism of "entrance", "training" and "exit".
Do a good job in enlightenment education and "close the entrance" to educate people. At the beginning of freshmen’s enrollment, organize them to participate in career awareness fairs, career planning competitions and freshman innovation geek competitions, and all employees will establish personal career portraits. Construct an integrated teaching system and strengthen the "training pass" of educating people. Schools should integrate employment and entrepreneurship education into the whole process of talent training, and carry out individual consultation, group counseling, policy docking, entrepreneurship polishing and other activities throughout the school with the curriculum system of "ideological and political courses+innovation integration+compulsory general education+elective gold courses". Schools should create a "great ideological and political" education space with cross-integration, and build a community platform integrating ideological and political construction, innovation and entrepreneurship, and management services. Grasp the education of graduates and keep the "export pass" of educating people. Use the employment big data service platform to accurately provide online information services for graduates, and strengthen targeted graduation education for students who love and honor their schools, love their jobs and serve the grassroots, so as to achieve continuous service without leaving school.
Integrate social forces and broaden collaborative channels.
Schools should not only pay attention to the close cooperation between the relevant educational subjects in schools, but also give full play to the guiding role of different social forces, strengthen the multi-dimensional linkage with local governments, human and social departments, talent exchange service institutions, employers in various industries, alumni quality enterprises, etc., strengthen resource sharing, build a multi-party cooperation employment platform and collaborative education mechanism between government, schools and enterprises, and expand employment positions and development channels for college students. For example, South China Agricultural University set up Guangzhou’s first "e-station for employment and entrepreneurship", implemented the "thought+innovation+entrepreneurship" three-tutorial system, established strategic cooperative relations with more than 10 leading enterprises such as Wenshi Group and Dabei Agricultural Group, and jointly established 38 industrial research institutes (centers) by local enterprises. On the basis of the well-known "Wen’s Mode" school-enterprise cooperation mechanism, we will deepen the formation of a deep cooperation education model between schools and enterprises represented by "Wen’s Class". Schools can also deepen exchanges with cooperative enterprises, extensively open up employment channels and posts, and implement the Ministry of Education’s plan of "visiting enterprises to expand jobs and promote employment". School leaders should walk in the front line of "sending talents out of the school", visit key employers on the spot, and have in-depth exchanges with employers on graduate employment, talent training, Industry-University-Research cooperation and other matters, thus boosting outstanding talents to find jobs and start businesses in various positions.
Strengthen peer discussion and enhance collaborative communication.
Exchange of experience and learning from each other’s strong points are effective measures to improve the effect of employment and entrepreneurship guidance. Schools should combine "going out" with "please come in", learn from experience comprehensively, absorb advanced concepts, and explore a diversified, school-based and collaborative service system. It is necessary to innovate the forms of career education, such as holding a career awareness fair, attracting representatives of teachers and students from brother colleges to observe and experience, and exchanging effective measures to strengthen the employment priority policy of the school, so as to provide new ideas for strengthening the resource linkage with different subjects and provide an effective collaborative mechanism for students’ high-quality and full employment and entrepreneurship.
Guangming Daily (15th edition, August 22nd, 2023)