Attach strategic importance to high quality vocational and technical education

Hong Kong Conventional & Exhibition Centre

Xiamen University has been attaching great important to the display of its superiorities and strategic importance to practical technical education for the new century. The University aims at culturing technical and profession personnel to be used in the frontline of production, construction, management and service. In the area of the distribution of courses and reform of teaching contents, the University takes the culture of basic quality and capability of students as the core task, rationally sets up courses, makes conscientiously good teaching planning, improves textbooks, labs and bases for teaching practices. The University has cooperated with nine local enterprises in joint establishment of field trip and training bases. The University encourages engineering and technical staff of enterprises to joint our teaching staff and hires them as the teachers for field trips and training of students. At the same time, the University sends teacher abroad, other units in China or to industries for studies, aiming at building up a task force comprehending both theory and practices. With development of science and technology and social progress, many professional posts set higher demands on the expertises of their staff. On the other hand, with the enhancement of people’s living standard, more and more people seek for higher learning education. The society sets various demands for higher learning talents and a great many professionals will work in the frontlines of manufacturing, service and management. The cultivation of this type of talents depends on the development higher-learning professional education (Wang Mingda,1999). In recent years, with the development of higher-learning education the case of higher-learning professional education has received more and more attention from various lines. Xiamen University is a comprehensive university and enjoys distinct superiorities in teaching taskforce, education infrastructure, faculties, academic level and higher-learning education experiences. In the process of educational system reform, Xiamen University set up its Vocational and Technical Institute in 1999 based on its long term experiences in higher-learning professional education. The Vocational and Technical Institute is an experimental site for vocational and technical education in the university. This paper intends to discuss some issues for raising educational quality of higher-learning professional talents in the areas of cultivation objectives, distribution of expertise, teaching courses and teaching materials, practice and training. Bases and capacity building of teaching staff.