Investigation on the chaos of students’ internship in vocational schools： students’ internship has become a ＂cash cow＂ of the school
Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, August 1st Question: Student internship has become a "cash cow" for the school — — Investigation on the chaos of some vocational school students’ internship
Xinhua News Agency "Xinhua Viewpoint" reporters Zheng Shengzhu, Feng Songling and Zhao Hongyu
Mechanical and electrical engineering students are arranged to sell drinks, and sending a student to an enterprise "internship" can get a thousand yuan "management fee" … … Internship is an important part of the training of skilled personnel in vocational schools. However, the reporter’s investigation found that some vocational schools randomly arrange internship positions unrelated to their majors, and some vocational schools "sell" students to enterprises as cheap labor.
The insiders believe that the interest chain behind the internship in vocational schools should be cut off to prevent "school-enterprise cooperation" from becoming "school-enterprise transaction" and let students return to the original intention of teaching.
Students complain that the internship position has nothing to do with their major.
The "Regulations on the Management of Students’ Internship in Vocational Schools" issued by the Ministry of Education and other five departments clearly requires that internship positions should meet the requirements of professional training objectives and be corresponding to or similar to the majors studied by students.
However, recently, many students from Hebei Bohai Polytechnic College told reporters that they were assigned to internship positions unrelated to their majors.
A student from the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of the 2017 class said that on July 17, he was arranged by the school to practice in beijing happy valley. Some of his classmates were cashing in and some were selling drinks, which had nothing to do with their major.
On July 16, more than 200 students from the 2017 information engineering department of the school were arranged to do customer service work in an enterprise in Beijing Daxing Yizhuang Economic Development Zone. Because there is no salary and poor accommodation here, some students are unwilling to give up halfway. However, the counselor told them that if the internship is less than 16 weeks, they will be "downgraded" or warned.
In response to the mismatch between internship positions and majors, Bohai Polytechnic College responded that students are only experiencing and understanding the positions in the park in Happy Valley. Many students don’t agree with the school’s statement that the practice organized by the school is divorced from the major, which is not helpful to improve the practical ability of the major.
It is not uncommon for students from Bohai Polytechnic College to experience internships. The reporter combed and found that many users of Weibo’s remarks for vocational school students have exposed similar internship experiences. Since June this year, People’s Daily Online’s "Local Leaders’ Message Board" has had more than 40 complaints about the mismatch of internship in vocational schools, involving many vocational schools in Shandong, Sichuan, Yunnan and Shaanxi.
"One student will give the school 1200 yuan at a time", and the students will become the "cash cow" of the school.
In recent years, the Ministry of Education and the education authorities in many places have repeatedly applied for orders, and it is strictly forbidden for schools around the country to transfer benefits between student internships and internship units and labor intermediary agencies, and collect labor fees and agency fees. However, the reporter’s investigation found that some vocational schools still export "student workers" to enterprises or labor agencies, and charge a commission called "management fee".
Sharla Cheung (a pseudonym), a 2018 student from School of Information Engineering, Xuchang Vocational and Technical College, Henan Province, introduced that as soon as he finished his studies in June, he and more than 400 students were arranged by the school to work as interns in Wistron Zitong (Kunshan) Co., Ltd., and his job was to attach components, screw, count and package on a mobile phone production line.
Many employees of Wistron Zitong (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. revealed that the factory will give some vocational schools a lot of money every year to recruit "student workers". In order to confirm the employee’s statement, the reporter "sought cooperation" from the company in the name of "organizing student internships"; The relevant person in charge of the company’s personnel department said that "students’ majors are not limited" and the company will pay management fees. "There is a large demand for employment in July and August, and a student will give the school 1,200 yuan at a time."
Teacher Peng, who is stationed in the college, bluntly said that the current internship position really can’t learn any knowledge and skills professionally, but the state has regulations that vocational colleges must organize students to practice; The school has shortened the internship period from six months to three months, and graduation without internship will be affected.
Vocational school students have also become a source of recruitment for some labor intermediary agencies. "It’s not that you give us the agency fee, it’s that we give you the management fee, and every student guarantees the school 800 yuan every month." When the reporter consulted Jiangsu Jiaen Human Resources Service Co., Ltd. as the relevant person in charge of a vocational school in Nanjing, the manager surnamed Sun recommended the internship position of Compal Video (Kunshan) Electronics Co., Ltd. to the reporter. Manager Sun said that the management fee will go with the market, depending on the employment needs of enterprises and the specific composition of students. "The ratio of male to female and the age group are all conditions for us to negotiate with enterprises."
Beware of "school-enterprise cooperation" degenerating into "school-enterprise transaction"
The insiders believe that some vocational schools send students to some enterprises that have nothing to do with their majors at will, or even make a profit, which deviates from the original intention of vocational education. Departments in charge of education, human resources and social welfare should strengthen the supervision of vocational school practice, cut off the interest chain behind vocational school practice, and prevent "school-enterprise cooperation" from becoming "school-enterprise transaction".
Ji Chunlei, vice president of Tongzhou Secondary Vocational School in Jiangsu Province, believes that the school should provide students with sufficient choices, such as organizing job fairs and presentations before internships, so that students, parents and schools can participate together to screen internship positions related to their majors. Schools can’t treat students as cheap labor. For some vocational schools to send students to labor agencies or enterprises for profit, education and other competent departments should find and crack down on them.
Xiong Bingqi, vice president of 21st Century Education Research Institute, said that internship training is an important part of vocational education, which requires the school to carefully design, invest corresponding energy and funds, and the competent department should supervise the content and effect of internship in vocational schools. We can explore the establishment of a blacklist system for vocational schools, blacklist vocational schools that violate the rules of internship, and publicize them every year when enrolling students.
Wang Hui, a lawyer of Beijing Jingshi Law Firm, believes that the internship organized by vocational schools is an important part of "school-enterprise cooperation", which should not be reduced to "school-enterprise transaction"; In addition to education and other industry authorities should strengthen supervision, labor inspection departments should also strengthen law enforcement to protect the rights and interests of internship students.
Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, said that the frequent problems of students’ internship mismatch in vocational schools also reflected that some vocational schools failed to adjust their professional settings in time according to the demand of the talent market. It is necessary to deepen the reform of the management system of vocational schools, give vocational schools more autonomy, and improve the matching degree between professional settings and internships and employment positions. (Participating in writing: Ju Hefei)