In accordance with the talent-oriented and innovation-driven development strategy, Tianjin implements a welfare training program aiming to train a million skilled technical professionals. The program is implemented in line with principles of practical, employment-oriented and government purchasing services.
The government encourages and leads vocational colleges, enterprises and non-governmental training organizations to provide vocational training for the employees, college students, the unemployed and rural labors under 45 years old, while the government pays training subsidy and allowance.
From 2015 to 2017, the municipality will help 1.2 million people to obtain vocational certificates through training and self-teaching. The population with national professional certificates would increase by 2.76 million by then, accounting for more than 70 percent of the skilled labors.
The welfare training program involves both urban and rural workers, with extensive targeted objects. All the workers participating in the training can enjoy preferential policy.
For the young and middle-aged employees who hold technical posts in enterprises, it will organize various professional and job-transfer training such as in-service and off-job trainings, echoing the needs of business operation, sci & tech innovation and technological progress.
The training for the students of vocational colleges focuses on the social demands to deepen industry-education integration and strengthen the cooperation between colleges and enterprises. It emphasizes three kinds of matching in this part of training, including matching major setup with industrial needs, matching courses with vocational standards and matching studying with working.
It promotes an overall “dual-certificate” system, that In accordance with the talent-oriented and is, degree certificate and vocational certificate, innovation-driven development strategy, Tianjin to prioritize the training of middle and senior implements a welfare training program aiming to professional abilities. train a million skilled technical professionals.
For the new labors that are qualified for employment program is implemented in line with principles of but not employed yet, it prioritizes tailored practical, employment-oriented and government training to promote employment as quickly as purchasing services. The government encourages possible. For those who lost their jobs, it focuses and leads vocational colleges, enterprises and on training of new technologies and new skills to non-governmental training organizations to get new jobs. provide vocational training for the employees, For the rural labor force, it focuses on job-transfer college students, the unemployed and rural labors training and practical agriculture skills training for the urban-rural integrated development.
Various channels and innovative modes will be applied for this welfare training program. Vocational colleges will be the main player in the program. They should pay equal importance to degree education and vocational training for the cultivation of senior professionals.
A dual-track vocational education training mode is promoted. According to the mode, the student enrolment equals to worker recruitment, entering a college means to start a career, and the students will have teachers at school and also from enterprises. It identifies the rights and obligations of enterprises, students and colleges.
Enterprises play a leading role in the program. They will organize employees to have full-time or half-full-time training in vocational colleges or organizations. Some of them can carry training by themselves, if they are able to build their own training centers, technician work stations or studios. The program encourages enterprises to hold apprenticeship training by combining enterprise-college cooperation with apprenticeship mode.
The non-governmental organizations are the main force of the program. The program encourages and guides various social quality resources to open vocational training organizations to meet the social needs for vocational training.
Practical training centers provide public services for the program. In addition to the municipal public vocational practical training center, which plays a leading and demonstrative role in the program, Tianjin will build public practical training platforms in according to local industrial characteristics and needs of districts and counties.
The program creatively uses a career-training package mode, which standardizes and regulates the professional standards, teaching contents, teaching methods, teaching materials, teachers, practical training and evaluation in an integrated way.
The welfare training program will have strict appraisals to separate training from assessment. The professional skill testing is separated from training. Tianjin Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau is responsible for the vocational skills testing in a unified way. The testing procedures include organization, assessment staff appointment and examination papers inspection will be arranged by the bureau uniformly.
Meanwhile, it works to improve the management system for vocational skills assessment. The application, examination arrangement and results checking are managed on a network basis.
The assessment results will be released to the public on time and easy and convenient information inquiry services will be provided.
It builds the results evaluation and accountability system and keeps improving them. Meanwhile, it strengthens the quality control before, during and after vocational skills assessment and testing, as well as the relevant documents management.
In accordance with a principle to set up examination separately from invigilation, the program takes the third party supervision and assessment system. Meanwhile, it sweeps the channel for public supervision to encourage complaints and whistle-blowing for the vocational skills assessment. It will investigate and affix the accountability for violation of laws or regulations. It sets withdrawal mechanism for the vocational skills testing organizations and carries out regular quality evaluation for them.