Industry partnership for graduation stage of higher vocational education

Vocational education has been developing rapidly in China these years’ Zhejiang University of Technology formulated a flowchart of industry partnership for the graduation stage in the light of characteristics and objectives of vocational education. After three years’ experiment in industry partnership, the college has been successful not only in the training of students’ ability of comprehensively applying what they learn into their work and in the training of their skill, but also in the preparation for their future employment. In this paper, the author makes a comparison between the traditional practice and the industry partnership in the graduation stage and, after analyzing their characteristics, concludes that the latter can achieve better results through strict management.