Ningbo promoting cooperation of vocational schools and enterprises

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Category: On The Campus

Published: Monday, 06 February 2012 09:55

From Ningbo Education Commission, "easures of Promoting Cooperation of Vocational Schools and Enterprises of Ningbo Municipality" was recently adopted by Ningbo Municipal Government and it is put in effect from February 1.

In March 2009, Ningbo Municipality released the "Rules of Promoting Cooperation of Vocational Schools and Enterprises", then the only local government regulation in China on the cooperation of vocational schools and enterprises. Thanks to the Rules, over 1,000 enterprises established cooperative relation with the vocational schools of various kinds in Ningbo.

Aiming at the general negative attitude of some enterprises on the cooperation, the "Measures" stipulates a series of rules: to subsidize private vocational schools to buy insurance for students on practice so as to rid the enterprises of worries, to put aside special funds of 10 million yuan every year as subsidies for the schools and enterprises in cooperation, and to establish a joint meeting mechanism for vocation education to coordinate the solution of problems in question