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"from the perspective of students and parents, our school is definitely not the first choice for high school admission. to a certain extent, it can even be said to be an unnecessary backup option. if you can't go to high school, you can go to a comprehensive high school. if you can't go to school, you can go to our vocational secondary school. this is the embarrassing position and reality of secondary vocational schools at present."

recently, jiangsu gaochun vocational school released the speech made by rui pinglu, the party secretary of the school, at the opening meeting of the fall semester of 2024. in his speech, rui pinglu emphasized the student recruitment crisis faced by the school.

gaochun vocational secondary school is located in the economic development zone of gaochun district, nanjing. it currently has 220 faculty and staff, 2,522 students, and 69 administrative classes. it is a comprehensive vocational school that integrates multiple talent training models such as five-year higher vocational education, 3+3 segmented training, comprehensive high school, and vocational secondary school.

rui pinglu said that as a secondary vocational school, we now have three types of students: five-year higher vocational colleges and 3+3 junior colleges, comprehensive high schools, and vocational secondary schools. this is our basic base. the three types of students have their own characteristics and positioning. in fact, from the perspective of functional definition and training goals, it is equivalent to three schools combined. if we look at it from a broader development perspective, in terms of our school’s current development positioning, we actually lack core competitiveness. there are higher vocational schools and colleges above us, and ordinary high schools below us. we are in a competitive environment surrounded by strong competitors and do not have any comparative advantages or scarcity power.

at the same time, from the perspective of social concepts, many parents still have the same views on vocational schools as they did ten years ago. rui pinglu said that of course, the schools also have their reasons: lack of publicity and lack of results.

"the sense of crisis i'm talking about is mainly about the source of students, which is the biggest pressure the school will face in the future." rui pinglu said that students are the main body of school development and the most valuable lifeline resource of the school. schools are established for students. without students, there is no school. similarly, a school must not only have the number of students, but also the quality of students. this is the premise and guarantee for the development of a school. as far as the sense of crisis of student sources is concerned, the main factor is the rapid decline in the birth rate. from the peak of 5,000 to 6,000 births, there will be a cliff-like drop to a trough of 3,000 to 2,000. in 2024, the three general high schools in gaochun district will enroll 2,300 students, and the population will be inverted by more than 300 people. "if by then, our school is still in the role of a bottom-up school, then theoretically we will have no source of students? this is the sense of crisis i'm talking about. the same sense of crisis about student sources has been reflected in rural kindergartens and primary schools in gaochun district. the number of births is beyond our imagination, but this is reality."

rui pinglu, who is also the deputy secretary of the education working committee of the gaochun district party committee and a member of the party leadership group of the gaochun district education bureau, also talked about the adverse impact of the general-vocational education ratio on the student source of gaochun secondary vocational schools.

"the ratio of general education to vocational education in our city was originally 65:35, but this year it has been adjusted to a wider level. excluding students studying outside the city, i calculated that vocational education accounts for less than 30% of the total education in our district, and the actual ratio of general education to vocational education is 71:29."

he said that in gaochun, the society currently recognizes general high schools more than vocational high schools. in the subconscious of parents, they feel that going to general high schools is closer to college, and going to key high schools is closer to 985 famous schools. as a result, students in general high schools gather together, and the congestion of channels is aggravated. students with weak learning foundations do not have much advantage in the increasingly fierce competition for undergraduate college resources. the superposition of various factors has caused many of our parents to inevitably fall into the involution and anxiety of high school education under the influence of irrational choices. the current general-vocational ratio has deviated far from the general balance requirement of 50:50. there is still a gap in improving the recognition of vocational education, which is the type of education that has the same importance as general education proposed in the vocational education law. at least it has not been fully realized in gaochun and nanjing. to change the society's deep-rooted views on vocational education, it still depends on the joint and continuous efforts of all the teachers present. we believe that worldly prejudices and one-sided perceptions will disappear as our strength improves. just like in the past few years, although the overall situation of the school has not been fundamentally reversed, society's view of us has changed a lot, and it is changing in a positive and friendly direction.

"although general high schools (college entrance examination) and vocational high schools (vocational education college entrance examination) are two different tracks, for schools, they are the same competition, the competition for students. with the fundamental changes in the situation in the future, the competition for students will affect the survival of the school." rui pinglu finally mentioned that everyone must realize this, we must change this status quo, eliminate inertial thinking, eliminate the idea of ​​lying down, and strive to break this closed pattern.