The Fifth-Session Chinese Apprentices Graduate from "Bosch Apprenticeship Project"Help industrial upgrading by exploring great training models to cultivate industrial and technical talents.The graduate ceremony of the fifth-session "Bosch Apprenticeship Project" is held in Bosch (Suzhou) apprenticeship training center. This project aims to cultivate good industrial and technical talents in mechanical and electronic areas and it is based on the "dual system" vocational education model from Germany. Since the Bosch Apprenticeship Project was first introduced in China in 2007, over 300 apprentices have been nurtured in Suzhou apprenticeship training center. With three-year extensive theoretical and practical program, the apprentices could get graduation certificate and degree after passing relative exams; they will also receive the certificate of professional skills and technicians awarded by Deutsche Industrie-und Handelstag, which is accepted by more than 5000 German-funded enterprises in China.With a long history in Germany, the dual-system vocational education enjoys the cooperation between enterprises and schools, which lays a solid foundation for the advanced techniques in Germany. Bosch Apprenticeship Project saw its beginning in 1888 when the company founder, Mr. Robert Bosch, recruited the first apprentice. To achieve better training results, Mr. Bosch just enrolled two students in every training session. In 1913, "Bosch Industrial Vocational Training Center" was officially opened. By now, the Bosch Apprenticeship Project has trained about 100,000 apprentices.With the fast business growth in Chinese market, the demand for local professional technicians and blue-collar workers is increasing constantly and extensively. In order to ensure the same quality standard worldwide, Bosch Apprenticeship Project has been introduced to the production bases in Nanjing, Beijing, and Changsha, and established cooperative relations with five schools, with 660 students participated in the project.Strict selection and cultivating modelThe apprenticeship training center, firstly, integrates the internal demands for apprentices, and then it will select and choose qualified ones according to specific needs. Bosch, together with the cooperative school, will form the recruitment group, identifies a preliminary enrollment list by giving written examinations, skill tests and interviews for applicants. The members of recruiting team include Bosch human resources managers and managers in the corresponding department. The enrolled apprentices are not only students, but also future employees.The apprenticeship program will be jointly formulated by Bosch, school and Deutsche Industrie-und Handelstag. The scheme will accommodate various factors, including the apprentice syllabus provided by Deutsche Industrie-und Handelstag, syllabus made by Board of Education for vocational schools and requirements posed by Bosch production departments.
Bosch Apprenticeship Project will be finished within three years in two places. In the first school year, the apprentices will have schoolings for basic cultural courses, professional courses and skill courses; in the second year, sixty percent of their time will be spent in apprenticeship training center on professional courses and skill practices with guidance from full-time teachers, while forty percent of their time for theoretical studies.During this period, special processes will be designed to ensure continuity between schools and training center. In their last year, apprentices will be arranged to have rotating jobs in different departments of the company. In the three years' time, students will receive various tests and examinations to ensure education quality. And the comprehensive evaluation for apprentices will also evaluate their performance in middle-term, end-term examination as well as on-the-job training, instead of their scores in the graduation tests; therefore, more attention could be paid to the overall quality of the students.
Emphasis on soft skills training
"Mini company", an independent technical training unit in Bosch Apprenticeship Project, is designed to foster apprentices' commercial understanding and independent competence by imitating real operation process. It is self-managed by apprentices and they will get a first-hand experience of marketing, negotiation, ordering, planning, production, testing, delivering and expense collecting. By getting involved in orders, customers and tasks, apprentices can better understand the importance of quality, cost, products and customers.
The program can also test apprentices' other overall abilities apart from practical operational skills, for example, the sensitivity to prices, internal operational norms, communication skills and self-management competences. At the same time, mini company is targeting apprentices to allow them to apply what they have learned in real jobs, preparing them for work as soon as they graduate.
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