Mental health of Ningbo college students better than the average of China

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Category: On The Campus

Published: Tuesday, 22 October 2013 14:15

On October 17, Ningbo Metal Health Association released a report of an investigation of the mental health of the college students of Ningbo, indicating that the level of the mental health of Ningbo college students is higher than the average of China.

From May 2013, Ningbo Committee of the Care of the Next Generation and Ningbo Metal Health Association launched an investigation in Ningbo University, Ningbo University of Technology, Zhejiang Wanli College and Hygiene Vocational-technical College, of the mental health of the college students. The investigation involves students of various grades in different specialties of engineering science, management, economics, literature and medicine sciences.

The investigation shows that the college students of Ningbo level the average of the country in the two complaints "I feel I have a physical problem" and "I have to confirm a thing after it is done". However, they score much lower than the averages of the country in the 10 symptoms like anxiety, depress and impulsion. Tests of personality inventory shows that the college students of Ningbo are better than the average of the country in the four indicators of straightforwardness, rigorousness, easy going, and persistency.

Great progress of higher education in Ningbo

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Published: Tuesday, 24 September 2013 14:48

In the past, Ningbo was quite weak in higher education. However, in recent years, Ningbo has made a leap-forward development in the education undertaking. As a result, Ningbo is today a quite advanced in higher education in Zhejiang, whose status is only next to Hangzhou. The higher education is now making greater and greater contribution to human resources, knowledge acquisition service and learning capacity that are necessary for the social and economic development of the city.

In recent years, Ningbo has taken active measures to introduce quality international educational resources so as to quicken its step to bring forth high-end theoretical and practical talents with international perspective. The University of Nottingham Ningbo China is the first one in China that has the status of an independent legal entity and a campus of its own. In 2011, a five-year TAFE project, the first one in Zhejiang, started in Ningbo. In 2012, Ningbo was approved by the Ministry of Education as one of the first pilot areas for comprehensive educational reform in international cooperation and exchanges.

Ningbo has built many a platform to promote the cooperation of the government, the enterprises, the schools and the research institutes. Thanks to such platforms as the Forum of University Presidents and Entrepreneurs and the "Conference of University and Enterprises on Talent Training", over 500 enterprises established cooperative relations with the universities and colleges. As a long-term mechanism, Ningbo released the "Rules of Promoting Cooperation of Vocational Schools and Enterprises", the first regulation in China for the protection and promotion of the cooperation of vocational schools and enterprises. In 2012, Ningbo Municipality released the "Measures of Promoting Cooperation of Vocational Schools and Enterprises of Ningbo Municipality", a policy that aims to tighten the link of education, science and talents.

As fund is the fundamental for higher education, Ningbo Municipal Government allocates special funds for higher educational institutions. Since 2005, the city has added over 50 million yuan year on year to the special fund for development of the service-oriented educational system. Since 2008, the city decided that most of the addition to the educational fund should be used for the development of the service-oriented educational system. In 2013, the average expenditure on a BA program student in a college in Ningbo was raised to 12,000 yuan a year, and 10,000 yuan on a student of a senior vocational school. In two years, the expenditure on a senior vocational school student should level that on a BA program student in Ningbo.

Pilot area for collaborative innovation on education and industry to be built

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Published: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 19:31

It has been learned recently from the Administrative Committee of Hangzhou Bay New Zone that the new zone has signed the agreement with Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Education to co-build the national "pilot area for collaborative innovation on education and industry".

The project is composed of the collaborative innovation center, higher education center, and the center for vocational qualification accreditation and public vocational training. The collaborative innovation center will integrate five sub-centers for smart appliances and electronic information, auto and parts, medical instruments, bulk commodity and health services, 10 practical professional talents training bases or labs that will be jointly built with enterprises through close cooperation in production, learning and research, and such other carriers as scientist studios, postgraduate workstations, the incubator park for returned talents, the talent stage and "1000-peope plan" industrial park. The higher education center aims to introduce prestigious universities from home and abroad by constructing the "TAFE" college and sub-campuses of some universities in the new zone, based on such existing campuses as Ningbo Institute of Fudan University and the Hangzhou Bay New Zone Auto College. The center for vocational qualification accreditation and public vocational training will provide vocational training for junior high school graduates, pre-employment skill training, on-the-job training and vocational qualification accreditation for enterprises and productive training or internship for university or vocational college graduates. In the meanwhile, the center will be built as a comprehensive center for vocational qualification accreditation by integrating various kinds of accreditation resources.

College interns in Ninghai enterprises get paid

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Published: Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:39

Colleges and enterprises met in Ninghai on September 3rd to sign the Agreement on Establishing Internship Base. The Agreement, promoted by Ninghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, will ensure college students will be paid during their internship.

"Interns will be treated the same way as the official workers", Chen Chun, President's assistant from Jianxin Zhao's Group Corp said when he recruited interns.

A training system has been set up in the Corporation for intern students who will get one-one technological guidance before they finish relevant tasks and participate in regular check.

"Although companies do not have a labor relation with intern workers and do not have to offer them salary, they still need to ensure the interns' interests", Luo Changjie, a manager from the Bureau said.

When students from14 Ningbo colleges have an internship in the 31 intern bases, enterprises are expected to sign internship agreements with them in which posts and payment are specified.