Industry-Education Integration
The Group's schools and colleges promote collaboration across the six dimensions of disciplines, talent, teachers, curricula, teaching bases and research, to balance supply and demand for talent cultivation. The Group is fully committed to upskilling its team of “double qualified” teachers; promoting collaborative innovation around industry, education, research and application;supporting the coordination of government, schools and enterprises; strengthening connectivity between the education chain, talent chain, industry chain and innovation chain; and facilitating the in-depth development of industry-education integration.
During the 2023 academic year, the Group organised more than 1,700 teaching “backbones” from 269 disciplines at 8 schools and colleges to initiate research on the employment needs of enterprises. Teaching staff visited well-known enterprises that have employed graduates from the Group’s schools and colleges, including Fortune 500 companies, China Top 100 companies, and listed companies; and they carried out in-depth research on enterprise needs and industrial demands. So far, more than 1,862 teaching suggestions covering 396 industries and jobs have been collected from over 1,780 enterprises. Going forward, the Group will use these ideas to drive OBE teaching reform and help students secure high-quality employment.
The MOE announced the first and second batches of employment-oriented education projects for 2021-2022, and the Group's schools and colleges have initiated 198 projects under the list. Specifically, Lanzhou College of Information Science and Technology successfully initiated 82 projects in the second batch, ranking first in Gansu province and among the top four in the country, alongside world-class universities such as Xi'an Jiaotong University and Harbin Institute of Technology.
By participating in rotation training related to corporate R&D, manufacturing and other processes, the Group’s students have the opportunity to strengthen their practical and professional skills outside the classroom in a corporate environment. The Group’s internship bases adopt a model of collaborative education that combines production, teaching, research and application, allowing students to apply knowledge they have learned in the classroom to problems in the real world. The internships effectively enhance students’ innovative drive and practical abilities, while aligning talent training more closely with market demand. The Group has worked with 1,118 enterprises—including Alibaba, CATL, Geely Automobile Research Institute, Harbin Welding Institute, TSMC and Johnson & Johnson—to build internship bases.
To promote employment, the Group’s schools and colleges collaborate with enterprises to integrate professional skills and corporate culture into the talent training process. Focusing on job requirements, schools and enterprises jointly develop talent training programmes and curriculum programmes to form a seamless process that spans from enrolment and training to employment. The Group’s schools and colleges have worked with various Top 500 enterprises, such as Chinasoft International and Kingdee Software, to set up 108 career development classes.
Based on regional industrial development, the Group’s schools and colleges integrate competitive resources at schools and enterprises and jointly build educational communities that are characterised by industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation, with the goal of cultivating high-quality talent. To this end, the Group has established 54 modern industrial colleges, including Geely Automobile Industrial College, Huawei ICT Academy, Chinasoft International Big Data College, Zhengbao Smart Finance and Taxation Industry College, Siemens School of Smart Manufacturing, Hyundai Welding Industrial College, JD Logistics Industrial College, and Qianyi Live Broadcast e-Commerce Industrial College.
