A lifelong learning system based on school-enterprise cooperation

Abstract

School-enterprise cooperation has become an important guiding ideology for developing vocational education in China. This paper introduces a successful experience to build a lifelong learning system for employees. The developed lifelong learning platform has worked in the following way. Senior engineers of the enterprises train college teachers. Using rich teaching experience, the teachers can transform complex new theories and knowledge into detailed skills, and then teach skilled workers. Seven years of practice and perfection show that lifelong learning system constructed by senior engineers, teachers and employees works well. The proposed school-enterprise-cooperation-based learning platform overcomes the enterprise limitation of contradiction between expansion domestic market and lack of skilled workers. Lifelong learning practices with many enterprises show that the proposed system is effective.