1. Historical evolution
Tianjin Vocational and Technical Normal University is the earliest ordinary higher education institution established in my country with the main task of cultivating vocational education teachers. It was established in 1979 and is affiliated to the Tianjin Vocational and Technical Normal University. Formerly the Ministry of Labor; in 2000, it was transformed into a central and local government institution, mainly managed by Tianjin City; in March 2010, it was renamed Tianjin Vocational and Technical Normal University; in March 2012, the Ministry of Education and the Tianjin People’s The government formally signed an agreement to cooperate in the establishment of Tianjin Vocational and Technical Normal University.
2. Teaching Resources
The school currently covers an area of ??more than 800,000 square meters, with a construction area of ??more than 470,000 square meters. There are currently more than 17,000 full-time students of various types. The school has a strong and distinctive teaching staff. Teachers with associate senior professional and technical positions account for 50.25% of the total number of full-time teachers; "integrated dual-qualified" characteristic teachers account for 50.2% of the total number of "dual-certificate" professional theoretical course teachers. 70 and above. The school currently has 11 national experimental demonstration center construction units (engineering training centers) and training centers, 160 various training laboratories, and 5 innovation practice bases; it has advanced experimental and practical training equipment worth 291 million yuan. The average equipment value per student ranks among the top universities in the country.
3. Discipline Construction
The school currently has 7 disciplines: engineering, education, science, management, economics, literature, and art, and has 1 project postdoctoral workstation , 7 first-level discipline master's degree programs, 1 professional degree authorization program, and 38 undergraduate majors, including mechanical manufacturing technology education, automobile maintenance engineering education, electrical technology education, electronic information engineering, vocational and technical education management, and computer science and technology 6 majors have been established as advantageous (featured) majors; a postdoctoral workstation has been established in cooperation with Tianjin No. 1 Machine Tool Factory; it has 4 provincial and ministerial key disciplines (education, mechanical engineering, transportation engineering, control science and engineering). There are 5 school-level key disciplines and 1 school-level key development discipline; there are 2 provincial and ministerial-level key laboratories (high-speed cutting and precision machining laboratory, information sensing and intelligent control laboratory), and provincial and ministerial-level key technical projects. There is one center (Fieldbus Control Technology Engineering Center) and one provincial and ministerial key research base for humanities and social sciences (Teacher Ability and Vocational Ability Research Center).
4. School-running characteristics
The school is built with characteristics and adheres to the school-running philosophy of "using hands and brains to develop in an all-round way". Since the 1990s, the school has created a new model of talent training. , implement the "dual certificate" system to cultivate "integrated" vocational teachers ("dual certificate" means that students not only obtain graduation certificates, but also obtain national vocational qualification certificates; "integrated" means that graduates can both teach Professional theory courses, and can also guide professional skills training). In 1996, the school trained undergraduate graduates with national advanced vocational qualification certificates, becoming the first school in my country to cultivate "double high" talents. The school has won the first prize for national teaching achievements twice. In 2003, it trained the first batch of undergraduate graduates in my country who obtained the national professional qualification certificate for technicians. In 2006, the school received excellent evaluation in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level by the Ministry of Education. In 2009, the school won the first prize for teaching achievements in Tianjin for three teaching achievements, including "building a campus science and technology culture that advocates skills, focuses on application, and encourages innovation, and comprehensively improves the quality of talent training."
5. Outstanding Students
In the past five years, school students have won the National College Student Electronic Design, Mathematical Modeling, Engineering Training Comprehensive Ability, "Challenge Cup" National College Student Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works, etc. In the competition, we won 15 national first prizes, 40 second prizes, 4 third prizes, 1 Tianjin special prize, 130 first prizes, 194 second prizes, 255 third prizes, and an excellence award. 223 items. At present, the school has trained more than 30,000 high-quality vocational teachers for the country. School graduates are very popular with employers, and the employment rate has always been at the forefront of Tianjin universities.
6. Scientific research
The school has 38 academic research institutions including the Institute of Vocational Education and the African Vocational Education Research Center. In the past five years, school teachers have undertaken national “863” projects, National Natural Science Foundation projects, National Major Science and Technology Projects, National Small and Medium Enterprise Innovation Fund Projects, National Social Science Fund Projects, Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Fund Projects, Human Resources and Social Security It has 191 projects at or above the provincial or ministerial level, including the Ministry of Science and Technology Projects and the National Educational Science Planning Project, and has received 38 awards at or above the provincial and ministerial level, 8 authorized invention patents, 59 utility model patents, 30 software copyright registrations, and published 27 monographs. The academic journals "Journal of Tianjin Vocational and Technical Normal University" and "Vocational Education Research" published by the school have been rated as first-class journals in Tianjin; the "Vocational Education Research" magazine has also won the "First Prize in the National Vocational Education Journal Competition" for many consecutive years.
7. School expansion
The school has been identified as one of the first batch of “National Key Vocational Teacher Training Bases” and “National Higher Vocational Schools” by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other ministries and commissions. There are 13 training bases, including "Higher Vocational Education Teacher Training Base", "National Vocational Training Teacher Training Base", "National High-Skilled Talent Training Base", and "Ministry of Education Education Foreign Aid Base". Among them, the first three bases are the leading units. The school is also the president unit of the Vocational Teachers Professional Committee of the Chinese Vocational and Technical Education Association, the executive vice president unit of the Vocational Guidance Professional Committee, the president unit of the National Independent Vocational and Technical Normal Colleges Joint Association, and the president of the Degree and Graduate Education Research Association. unit. The school is actively responsible for organizing vocational skills competitions. In the past five years, the school has hosted the National Technical School Vocational Skills Competition, the Tianjin Secondary Vocational School Electrical and Electronics Professional Vocational Skills Competition, and participated in and co-organized the Tianjin CNC Skills Competition, the Youth League Central Committee, Central Enterprises, and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. The technical work and judging work of the National Vocational Skills Competition fully demonstrate the professional skills of teachers and students.
8. International Exchange
As the Ministry of Education’s first educational foreign aid base, the school has made remarkable achievements in vocational education aid to Africa. In the past five years, the school has sent 123 foreign aid teachers to teach in vocational colleges in Ethiopia, Tanzania and other countries, educating and training nearly 10,000 students. In 2008, according to the cooperative education agreement between the Ministry of Education of Ethiopia and the Ministry of Education of China, it was entrusted by the Ministry of Education of my country to undertake the teaching and management work of the state-aided construction of the "Ethiopian-China Vocational and Technical College" in Ethiopia; in 2010, the project was selected into the "China Vocational and Technical College". Non-university 20 20 cooperation plan”. The first Confucius Institute in Ethiopia, the "Confucius Institute in Addis Ababa", was established, and three Chinese teaching centers were established at Addis Ababa University, Hawassa University and Makere University to vigorously promote Chinese culture. In recent years, the school has also carried out cooperation and exchanges with many universities in the United States, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Australia and other countries. It is the only university in the country to recruit international students with Chinese government scholarships in China. Currently, there are Ukraine, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Zambia, Vietnam, etc. Undergraduate and master’s students from the country.
9. Development Vision
At present, the school has become a vocational and technical normal university that is leading among similar institutions in the country and has a certain influence in the world. It is known as "Chinese Training The cradle of vocational teaching qualifications”. The school will accelerate the pace of reform and development, further explore new ways of running schools with characteristics, be based in Tianjin, serve the whole country, and face the world, in order to build the school into a vocational and technical normal university that is leading among similar institutions in the country, has certain influence in the world, and has distinctive characteristics. And work hard.