The Ministry of Education responds to the ＂General-Vocational Diversion＂ in the senior high school entrance examination ｜ Secondary vocational education will adjust its orientation and increase the op

　　　　　　 CCTV News:Recently, a representative member of the local two sessions suggested that "the diversion of general posts after the senior high school entrance examination should be cancelled", which aroused concern. At the press conference held by the Ministry of Education today (February 23), the relevant person in charge responded that "the separation of general education and vocational education" is necessary, and the diversified development of high school education is the development goal of high school education in China during the 14 th Five-Year Plan period. Secondary vocational education is an important part of high school education and shoulders the heavy responsibility of promoting the diversified development of high school education.

　　　　　　 Chen Ziji, Director of Vocational Education and Adult Education Department of Ministry of Education:The coordinated development of secondary vocational education and ordinary high school education can not only meet the learning needs of students with different endowments, but also provide a space and channel for diversified growth. At the same time, the development of secondary vocational education has made positive contributions to promoting employment expansion, promoting regional economic development and improving people’s livelihood. However, with the economic and social development and the improvement of people’s living standards, people’s demand for high-quality, universal high school education is constantly increasing. The Ministry of Education will actively promote all localities to rationally plan the enrollment scale of secondary vocational schools and ordinary high schools according to the degree of regional economic and social development and the needs of local industrial development. On the other hand, the most fundamental thing is to run secondary vocational education well, improve its own quality, and work hard on on-the-job general education.

　　　　　　 In fact, the social concern about the "separation of general education and vocational education" is mainly that students have no future once they enter vocational schools, and the society has always labeled vocational education as "inferior education" and "eliminated education". At today’s press conference of the Ministry of Education, Chen Ziji, director of the Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education, said that the two major tasks this year will focus on "improving quality" and "enhancing image".

　　　　　　 Chen Ziji, Director of Vocational Education and Adult Education Department of Ministry of Education:In the next step, we will take concrete measures to improve the quality of modern vocational education from the aspects of type characteristics, integration of production and education, school-enterprise cooperation, teaching reform and brand building, so as to effectively improve the quality of vocational education. On the basis of improving quality, we should change the stereotype of vocational education in society, enhance its attractiveness, let parents choose vocational education, let employers rely on vocational education, and gradually form a social atmosphere of "choosing vocational education when going to school, upgrading skills and looking for vocational education", establish a good reputation of vocational education, and make vocational education have a head start, hope and expectation.

Chen Ziji, director of the Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education of the Ministry of Education, also said that this year, the conditions for running secondary vocational education will be improved and the channels for further studies will be unblocked. At the same time, the orientation of secondary vocational education will be adjusted from "employment-oriented" to "paying equal attention to employment and further studies".

Chen Ziji, Director of Vocational Education and Adult Education Department of Ministry of Education:Secondary vocational education is the starting point, not the end point, of vocational education, which promotes the diversified development of secondary vocational schools, changes from "employment-oriented" to "paying equal attention to employment and further education", pays special attention to further education in line with the characteristics of vocational education, strengthens cultural basic education on the basis of ensuring the quality of students’ technical skills training, expands the scale of through training, opens up the growth space of secondary vocational students, and enables secondary vocational students to have the ability to find jobs, have advantages in further education and have channels for development.

In addition, the layout will be optimized, and the "empty, small, scattered and weak" schools will be integrated through measures such as cancellation, merger, transformation, trusteeship, land replacement and group running, and the layout structure of secondary vocational education will be optimized. We will also work with relevant departments to implement the "Project to Meet the Standards for Running Secondary Vocational Schools", comprehensively check the basic conditions for running secondary vocational schools, and achieve the basic standards for school teaching conditions in 2023.

At the same time, the implementation of the "quality secondary vocational schools and professional construction plan", focus on building a number of high-quality secondary vocational schools and brand majors with demonstration and leading role, with 3-mdash; In five years, about 1,000 state-level high-quality secondary vocational schools will be built, which will lead the overall management of secondary vocational education to be standardized and qualified, and guide parents to make rational choices.