First, the school's basic foreign exchange and cooperation
Binzhou Vocational College is approved by the People's Government of Shandong Province in July 2001, the merger of Binzhou Agricultural School, Health School, Industrial School, Economic School and Binzhou Agricultural Research Institute to form a full-time ordinary higher education, is located in the Bohai Sea, the center of the Yellow River Delta city - Binzhou City.
Although there is no geographic advantage of international exchanges and cooperation, there is no language specialization, but the college has always insisted on the "open door" school, people-oriented, project as a carrier, and actively serve the teachers and students "go out". On the system, clear how to "go out", the introduction of "Binzhou Vocational College students go abroad (territory) Management Interim Provisions" "Binzhou Vocational College backbone professional teachers training abroad implementation rules"; atmosphere, to stimulate students to "go out", the establishment of the College Student International Exchange Association, to carry out a series of cultural experience activities and international cultural lectures, broaden students' horizons, promote students to feel the international atmosphere; program, to ensure that students "go out", and South Korea Jiaquan University and other cooperation, the establishment of "Jiaquan class", to provide students with the "Jingjin Scholarship". "The college also encourages teachers to "go out" by setting up a special fund of 2 million RMB every year to create conditions for teachers to go abroad, participate in overseas thematic training, learn advanced vocational education experience and introduce quality vocational education resources. The college has set up a special fund of 2 million yuan every year to create conditions for teachers to go abroad, participate in special overseas training, learn advanced vocational education experience, and introduce quality vocational education resources.
The college has signed cooperation agreements with 11 universities, including the University of South Wales, Canada's McRavid Dolan College, South Korea's Yewon University of the Arts, and Chodang University, and has carried out a variety of cooperation and exchanges in various forms and with rich contents, such as overseas college education, mutual assignment of teachers, exchange of students, mutual recognition of credits, and complementary curricula; 56 students of foreign nursing majors have passed the English test of the British Ministry of the Home Office network, and have been sent to Britain for paid internships. 56 foreign nursing students passed the UK Home Office network English exam and went to the UK for paid internships; a total of more than 90 students went to study in South Korea; in the past three years, 86 times of managers and teachers participated in overseas training in South Korea, Singapore and so on.
II. Typical Cases of External Exchanges and Cooperation
(1) Adhering to the openness of running a school, and actively engaging in external exchanges
1. Culture on the stage, promoting mutual understanding
The China-Korea Food and Culture Exchanges is a two-way reciprocal exchanges organized by the Shandong Provincial Federation of Social Science and Technology and the Korea Institute of Food and Culture Research***, and it is a key support from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Korea. It is also a project supported by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Korea. Since 2005, it has been carried out for ten years. The college also actively participated in this activity, which was successfully held in Seoul from September 22nd to 26th, 2014, and Mr. Liu Shuguo and Ms. Cao Yanyan participated in the activity on behalf of the college. During the event, Mr. Liu Shuguo and Ms. Cao Yanyan promoted the College through the College's brochure, magazine and newspaper, which attracted the attention of many international friends. Mr. Liu Shuguo demonstrated on-site calligraphy and presented his works in a handbag with the image of the college to his Korean friends.
The Academy hosted the 2014 China-Korea Cultural Exchange Activity Literary Gala, which was attended by the Undersecretary of Government for the State Adjustment Office of the Prime Minister of South Korea, Mr. Koon Chang-hee, the President of the Institute of 100-Year-Old Policies, Mr. Kim Jin-guk, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Institute of Food and Cultural Research? Heung-ja, South Korea food broadcasting representative Nam Yong-jin and Doowon University of Technology, Daegu University of Korean Medicine part of the teachers and students, the main organizer of the relevant leaders and college teachers and students on behalf of more than 1,300 people attended the meeting. Binzhou Vocational College teachers and students self-arranged and self-performed programs, reflecting the connotation of traditional Chinese culture, show Binzhou Vocational College style. The program is colorful, won the applause, "Chinese model" roar out of the voice of the Chinese dragon, "praise bin job" show the youthful vigor of the students, graceful "point rhyme" dance out of the soft passes on the love of the Chinese classics, "jasmine" lingering fragrance full of feelings, "qin book tea plum blossom three fiddles" accounted for all the style, "Chinese kung fu" singing and practicing the combination of the spirit of Yang I China, the cheongsam walk out of the dashing paintings and rich poetic feelings, Harmonious China" sang out our good wishes. Korean guests also have come on stage, sang "Arirang" and other traditional songs. At the end of the evening party, Binzheng teachers and students, South Korean guests sang hand in hand "hand in hand", sang the people of the two countries hand in hand, the good wishes of going forward together. During the cultural festival, also participated in the organization of Chinese and Korean food culture show, academic forum, cooking competition and other activities.
2. Social activities, strong international atmosphere
The college set up "college students international exchange association", expanding the college students' international vision, improve students' international exchange ability. The association aims to let Binzheng students understand the world, in the early stage of the establishment of the association that is the formation of various small language interest classes, to provide students with more opportunities to learn foreign languages and cultures. Korean interest class is organized, and the class is held on Tuesdays and Fridays after class. Through the classes, most of the students have mastered Korean pronunciation and elementary conversation. We have carried out interesting activities such as the Korean Double 11 Festival cultural experience, the lecture by the teacher of Korea Jiaquan University, and the "Welcome Double Festival, Tear the Name Card".
November 11th in Korea is called "PeperoDay", it is a day for young people to express their greetings to their friends, parents, and elders, and its representative food is Pepero chocolate bars, and a lot of Korean students make various kinds of chocolate bars by themselves to give to their relatives and friends to express their love. In order to introduce and show the students, the club prepared a variety of chocolate bars imported from Korea, which aroused great interest among the students, and many of them said that on this day they should not only think of shopping, but also make a phone call to their parents and friends far away from home to send winter greetings.
3. Overseas training to enhance the quality of teachers
The College issued the "Binzhou Vocational College backbone professional teachers foreign training implementation measures", each year, 3-5 backbone professional teachers, 1-2 groups to participate in foreign training. Backbone professional teachers training abroad, mainly to encourage and support the 3-6 months of foreign training and learning, the longest period of no more than 1 year; group training is mainly within 1 month of short-term training.
Foreign training includes: (1) foreign study visits, referring to teachers' personal contact with tutors from foreign educational institutions, training for the purpose of enhancing professional competence, generally in the form of cooperative research. (2) thematic training, refers to the college for the key development of professional and vocational education difficulties, cooperation with foreign institutions, targeted to enhance the business quality of teachers, generally in the form of course elective, thematic training as the main form. (3) Mutual visits of personnel from friendly schools, refers to the selection and dispatch of teachers to each other's schools for comprehensive training based on cooperation programs with friendly schools, generally taking actual participation in business work as the main form.
For example, in 2015, in order to learn the concept of international advanced vocational education, and to further enhance the College's full-time teachers' ability to build professionalism and curriculum development, 16 of the College's key teachers went to Singapore to participate in the "Professionalism and Curriculum Development" training group to Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore Institute of Technology and other institutions to participate in learning and training. Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Institute of Technology and Singapore Institute of Technology Education. During the 8-day training, the trainees listened to 12 lectures, visited Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore Institute of Technology (SITE) (SITE is equivalent to secondary vocational schools in China), and its Nanyang Polytechnic's seven departments of experimental laboratories, teaching factories, project research and development rooms, experimental training centers, and visited the Singapore Housing and Development Board (HDB), the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), the New Life Waterworks, and fully understood the vocational training in Singapore. They visited the Singapore Housing Development Board, Urban Redevelopment Authority and New Life Water Plant, and fully understood the philosophy and successful experience of vocational education in Singapore. The main content of the training included Singapore's national conditions and education system, Nanyang Polytechnic's history of school development, development experience and the elements of excellence in school running, teaching management and curriculum development, the teaching factory model, project teaching, student mentality cultivation and management, general curriculum teaching, effective ways of teaching and learning, and so on.
(2) Three-dimensional cooperation, service for students' overseas development
1. Student-oriented, service for students to go out
The college and Kaizumi University have decided to cooperate in the implementation of the "Kaizumi University Undergraduate Study Abroad Program" for students of the college, which is aimed at cultivating students who have both professional skills and good character, as well as an international education background and a good sense of responsibility. The program is designed to train students with professional skills and good moral character, as well as international educational background and intercultural communication skills. The program is open to 20 students per year. The program is open to second-year students who have completed two years of study, have completed the required courses, have no record of violation of laws or discipline, are in good health, are able to adapt to life abroad, and are interested in pursuing undergraduate studies at Chiayi University. Jiaquan University for participating in the program students exempted from 1 year of tuition and accommodation fees, to give students the greatest concessions, breaking the poor families to study abroad obstacles.
Korea's Kusudang University focuses on the College's aircraft maintenance program, students enter the Kusudang University Korean Language Education Center for a period of 1 year of Korean language study. At the end of the language study period, students can be promoted to the third year of undergraduate study at Kusang University. If they have completed the required credits and reached the standard of undergraduate study, Kusang University will issue a bachelor's degree certificate recognized by the ministries of education of China and South Korea for the students. KDU provides full scholarships (about 10,000 RMB) for half-year language tuition for recommended students. Cooperate with Korea's Kusang University in nursing, optometry, architecture, aircraft maintenance, low-altitude pilot training, etc., to carry out post-secondary education, and more than 20 students participate in the university's post-secondary education program;
2. Innovative forms of service for students' overseas employment
Adopting the mode of school-enterprise cooperation for joint school running, with the participation of students on a voluntary basis. Nursing students with good academic performance are sent overseas for employment. In addition to paying the normal tuition fees stipulated by the college, all other training fees are exempted for "Nursing International Class" students. The students will be responsible for the expenses related to visa, sponsorship, passport and air ticket. After enrollment, the students will form an "International Class", and during the period of schooling, they will receive targeted training in nursing professional knowledge, language, physical fitness, etc., so that they can meet the requirements for adaptation before leaving the country. 1-2 grades are embedded in the Japanese language course, and in the third year, students do not take part in the internship, but continue to strengthen their Japanese language. Nursing international class students implement paramilitary management, after reporting to the unified military training, every Monday to Friday full-time mode of instruction, unified exercise, unified work and rest, students are not allowed to go out during the study period, but if you need to go out, you must comply with the strict leave system. Teachers of Japanese nursing knowledge and language teachers are dispatched from Japan with teaching experience, so that students can master the basic knowledge of Japanese nursing and lay a solid theoretical and practical foundation for successful overseas employment. Ensure that students experience foreign culture while learning a foreign language.
For students majoring in Food Processing, Aquatic Processing, Vegetable Processing, Textile Sewing, Electronic Component Processing, Automobile Parts, Mechanical Processing, Construction, etc., as long as the individual has the desire, the college will also give them the opportunity to arrange language training and send them abroad for employment.
Students majoring in maritime affairs are trained in accordance with the International Convention on the Law of the Sea and the International Standards for Seafarers from the beginning of their enrollment in the college, and joint training is carried out in cooperation with China National COSCO Corporation and Qingdao Ocean Shipping Company Limited. During the period when the students are on board, many of them are employed in international companies, and the highest annual salary reaches 25,200 US dollars, which really realizes the dream of "high-paying employment and free travel to the world"!
III. Problems and Prospects
As a national backbone higher vocational college, the college is in a backward position in terms of international exchanges and cooperation compared to similar colleges and universities across the country and the province. College in-service faculty and staff of more than 1,000 people, more than 19,000 students, currently involved in international exchanges of personnel such as the size of the school and the number of students and faculty than the lack of participation in the surface, the number of participants is small, has not yet formed a strong internationalization atmosphere.
First, the significance of international cooperation in running schools is not enough awareness. Due to insufficient publicity and guidance, the introduction of the introduction of higher vocational colleges and universities in developed countries is insufficient, resulting in insufficient awareness of the international cooperation carried out by the college by teachers and managers, insufficient attention to the trend of economic globalization and the increasing competition in the international community, and too little knowledge of the latest progress of the international institutions of their respective professions. Most of the faculty and staff do not recognize the importance of international cooperation in enhancing the core competitiveness of the college.
Second, the scale of international cooperative education is relatively small. At present, there is no substantive international cooperation school enrollment project, and the cooperation project with the South Korean Chodang University aircraft maintenance program is in the process of declaration; cooperation with Europe and the United States, due to the students' language problems, very few students participate in the project; overseas "College to University" exchange program, due to the lack of attention to the internationalization of the students' awareness of the guidance and cultivation of the campus internationalization atmosphere is not strong enough to participate in the project. The number of students participating in the program is low because of the insufficient attention to the guidance and cultivation of students' internationalization awareness and the insufficient internationalization atmosphere on campus.
Third, the construction of international exchange and cooperation teams needs to be strengthened. The regular international exchanges require foreign language talents, the Office of International Exchange and Cooperation has not established the College's translation team; the Office of International Cooperation is responsible for foreign affairs work, including visits, the procedures for visitors, reception, the staff is too small, the work is too busy to cope with; the international cooperation to run a school is a systematic project that involves all aspects of the College, such as the introduction of foreign students requires Chinese teachers and perfect The Office of International Cooperation is not coordinating enough and has not put forward constructive suggestions.
Fourth, the introduction of advanced educational resources to do less. Compared with the institutions in developed countries, there is a big gap between the macro level of school running level, operation mechanism, management mode and system design, and the micro level of education concept, teacher level, professional setting, curriculum system, evaluation method and teaching method. There is not enough effort in learning advanced foreign experience, introducing high-quality vocational education resources as a way to quickly promote the connotation construction and improve their own professional settings, curriculum system.
The "13th Five-Year Plan" is a critical period for international exchange and cooperation in vocational education, and internationalization will become a new growth point for schools. The state clearly pointed out that vocational colleges and universities should improve the mechanism of Sino-foreign cooperation, and combine international high-quality vocational education resources "brought in" with China's vocational education experience "going out"; international exchanges and cooperation in vocational education and the promotion of China's enterprises and products "going out"; the international exchanges and cooperation in vocational education and the promotion of Chinese enterprises and products "going out". "Combine international exchanges and cooperation in vocational education with the promotion of Chinese enterprises and products. "Explore and standardize vocational colleges and universities to run schools abroad" and "focus on cultivating localized talents that meet the needs of Chinese enterprises in overseas production and operation".
International exchanges and cooperation in vocational education should not only focus on the domestic, but also participate in the development of international standards for vocational education and enhance the international impact of the National Vocational College Skills Competition.
During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the internationalization level of the college will be comprehensively improved, so that the level of international exchange and cooperation will be in the leading position among similar colleges and universities in China. Seize the opportunity to actively integrate resources and explore the establishment and construction of the College of International Education, so as to fundamentally reverse the passive situation of the college's international exchanges and cooperation. We should continue to promote the establishment of Chinese-foreign cooperative education programs in all majors, and promote students to pursue higher education or overseas employment; we should push the college to strengthen the construction of international students' apartments and foreign teachers' apartments, and try to cultivate international students by seizing the opportunity brought by the strategy of "One Belt, One Road"; we should incorporate internationalization indexes into all majors, and promote the internationalization content at the major level by combining with the new round of diagnosis and improvement of majors. In conjunction with the new round of professional diagnosis and improvement work, internationalization indexes are incorporated into each major to promote the incorporation of internationalization content at the professional level, and to urge each major to actively introduce high-quality international education resources; to increase exchanges with the U.S., Holland, Germany, and other European and American countries, and to promote extensive exchanges and high-level cooperation between managers and teachers and the partner institutions.
(Binzhou Vocational College Liu Jian Binzhou 256600)