World Bank Yunnan Province TVET Development Project
2020-10-15
The main objectives of the project are to improve quality and increase access in the TVET sector with an investment of 91 million USD, including 50 million USD from the World Bank and 41 million USD from other sources.
Our experts engaged deeply in the project and undertook many assignments in terms of project impact study and assessment on graduate quality and employability, three rounds of labor market survey, quality improvement based on curriculum reform including curriculum system, curriculum standard, textbook resource, teaching method reform, and teaching quality evaluation system, curriculum development, design for learning factories and workshops, innovative design for in-depth school-enterprise cooperation etc. Totally 100,000 graduates, in which 30,000 for 5 consecutive years, were traced with dimensional indicators in the assessment system.495 student-centered and competence-based teaching standard and curriculum standards and 284 kind of new professional textbooks were developed. Based on market and social demands, the project developed more than 97 kinds of “student-centered and competence-based” teaching materials and resources for satisfying the four specialty groups. 12 new comprehensive teaching buildings and workshops were designed incorporating advanced educational concept and technology for 9 flagship institutes. 7 independent innovation and entrepreneurship training centers were established for 7 institutes and the social service abilities were enhanced greatly. 58 learning factories were established jointly with enterprises for 9 flagship institutes and a good foundation was laid for further promotion of education quality, social services and financial profitability.
Our experts engaged deeply in the project and undertook many assignments in terms of project impact study and assessment on graduate quality and employability, three rounds of labor market survey, quality improvement based on curriculum reform including curriculum system, curriculum standard, textbook resource, teaching method reform, and teaching quality evaluation system, curriculum development, design for learning factories and workshops, innovative design for in-depth school-enterprise cooperation etc. Totally 100,000 graduates, in which 30,000 for 5 consecutive years, were traced with dimensional indicators in the assessment system.495 student-centered and competence-based teaching standard and curriculum standards and 284 kind of new professional textbooks were developed. Based on market and social demands, the project developed more than 97 kinds of “student-centered and competence-based” teaching materials and resources for satisfying the four specialty groups. 12 new comprehensive teaching buildings and workshops were designed incorporating advanced educational concept and technology for 9 flagship institutes. 7 independent innovation and entrepreneurship training centers were established for 7 institutes and the social service abilities were enhanced greatly. 58 learning factories were established jointly with enterprises for 9 flagship institutes and a good foundation was laid for further promotion of education quality, social services and financial profitability.
The project supported successfully 9 secondary vocational schools and higher TVET institutes to realize leapfrog development on educational capacity, boosted the development of TVET education, and contributed to the development of economy in Yunnan province. The achievement of the project is fruitful and has valuable reference for other domestic and international projects. World Bank awarded the project outstanding investment project in social development in the Asian-Pacific region in 2017.
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