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Beijing, with Tianjin and Hebei province, is transforming courses in secondary vocational schools and exploring a new model to recruit students. The city is focusing on higher quality vocational education related to modern city life.
According to a new adjustment plan, the city will reduce the scale of its secondary vocational schools, closing 56, including technical secondary schools and vocational high schools. After the adjustment, the city will maintain around 60 secondary vocational schools.
Beijing's vocational education will develop high-end majors in the future to be consistent with the city's industrial structuring, modern urban management, and life services improvement. The city will focus on programs connected directly with people's daily lives, such as cooking, nutrition, keeping good health, the Internet of Things, nursing for the aged and household service, said an official with the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education.
As Beijing is implementing the integrated development with Tianjin and Hebei province, some schools are taking the chance to move out of Beijing and transform some of their majors.
Some secondary vocational schools in Beijing's Dongcheng district, Chaoyang district, and Fengtai district are transforming into vocation experience centers open to students and other citizens.
The first eight vocation experience centers in the Dongcheng district have launched 99 free experience courses for citizens, including digital photo processing, calligraphy, painting, cooking, dancing, family financial management, and legal services.
People can find detailed information about vocation experience centers at http://dongcheng.bjlearning.cn.
More than 10 schools have reached agreement with the city and have increased recruitment efforts with Hebei province, such as cooperating to find students to study etiquette and site service for the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
