Higher Education in China by Jianmin Gu & Xueping Li & Lihua Wang

Author:Jianmin Gu & Xueping Li & Lihua Wang
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811308451
Publisher: Springer Singapore

5.5.3 Employment/Position-Oriented or Made-to-Order Mode

These two are highly specific or narrowly focused mode of education for short-cycle and tertiary vocational and technical programs. In the employment/position-oriented mode, the HEI first analyzes the employment requirements of a particular position or occupation, and then designs its program curriculum and practical training or internship in accordance with such particular requirements. In the made-to-order mode, the HEI designs its program and curricula in accordance with the type of graduates the employer ordered from the HEI. The made-to-order mode is even more specific in its objective and narrowly focused in the curriculum design. The two modes often incorporate the training and preparation for acquiring job-specific occupational qualification certificates as an integral component of the program. The strength of these programs has been the performance of their students in national or local occupational qualification exams. The passing rates of students in these programs are much higher than individual exam takers. For example, by integrating the course instruction with occupational qualification exam, 87 out of 98 students (88%) of the class 2004 from the Zhejiang Financial Professional College passed the national exam for International Commercial Documents in June 2006 (Zhang, 2007: 139). The program’s 88% passing rate was significantly higher than the national average of 62.8% in that year.

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