By Dong Quanyue, Qingdao Vocational and Technical College of Hotel Management
According to the recent notice of Ministry of Education, QVTCHM has been chosen to be the third group of trial colleges on Modern Apprentice Trial Program. Until now, we’ve got several Modern Apprentice Trial Programs of different levels including 1 national level, 2 provincial level and 5 municipal level.
Modern Apprentice Trial Program is an advanced mode of talents’ development through the deep cooperation between colleges and enterprises. Teachers who also play the role of masters focus on developing students’ skills which is the key of this mode. Colleges, together with enterprises, set up standard curriculums and examination plans. At the present, Modern Apprentice Trial Program is the most authoritative standard of the cooperation between vocational colleges and enterprises.
Based on Modern Apprentice Trial Programs that we did before, we integrated tourism management, hotel management, events and exhibition with the arts of cuisine as one tourism major group. Together with Shandong Inzone Tourism Co; Ltd and Beichen Group, we succeeded to get the approval of Ministry of Education. This is the outstanding achievement since we’ve been carrying out the program of becoming a top vocational college in China.
