The New Task Of Higher Education

With the gradual setting-up of socialist market economy in our country, employment system of college students grew from " centralizing allocation of labor " to " choosing a job independently ". It is the embodiment of rational distribution of human resources. It met the need of graduate's independence and character development. At the same time, put forward higher request to student for new employment mechanism and social ability to occupational environment. In our country, higher education has entered popular stage, graduates are expanding year by year, and this increases difficulty of employment even more. So, how to launch vocational guidance for college students and how to help them to plan their career have already drawn common concern of the society. As the specialized agency that trains college students, the duty and task of the college are more arduous and more urgent, needing every college badly to provide for a rainy day, to step up the work. Career guidance for college students should become of a new task of higher education in our country. Since the 1990s, all college of our country launched vocational guidance actively, having obtained much achievement, vocational guidance have great help for students to understand the policy of employment, to see employment situation clearly, to change idea of obtaining employment, to obtain employment skill. But it does not meet the demands of social development and educational development, having the problem that can't be ignored and waits to be solved. The vocational guidance started early in the college of developed countries, after more than 30 years of development, the college has formed intact theoretical system career guidance, has accumulated a large number of worth experience. Now, the west regards vocational guidance to career college student as careers guidance, with the foundation of career development, carrying on omni-directional career guidance to students, its characteristic is: Career guidance is combined with students' hope of job development, combined with teaching course of the school, combined with request of the market. It is obvious that career guidance of western college bases on student's long-term job development problem. It is the whole guidance. In recent years, we use some experience of the western countries for reference boldly, combining the national conditions of our country, has explored out some idea and method which are suitable for college student's careers guidance of our country, such as proposing to strengthen ideological and political education, setting up expansionary career guidance mode, setting up careers guidance course etc., but it has not still formed certain theoretical system yet. And, in practice, the career guidance of our country exists insufficiently: First, lacks systematization, careers guidance is only confined to graduate's, fails to guide the whole journey; Second, lacks harmony, it only pay attention to pushing college student to society , but not lack guidance how to realize job stabilize , how to serve the society at society . It doesn't harmonize the So, I think, vocational guidance should help college student to plan their life from a long-term and wide angle. At present, vocational guidance of college student in the complete meaning --career guidance should be a new subject for college. Referring to successful experience of career guidance in foreign country, to current situation of career guidance for college student in our country, probing into new idea and new mode of career guidance for college student has important theoretic meaning and realistic meaning. This text takes for career guidance of college student for the breaking point. On the basis of other study of career guidance, from multi-disciplinary angles, such as pedagogy, management and psychology, etc., regarding relevant theory as guidelines, using research approaches, such as the document law, comparative law, etc., the text has discussed career guidance in college deeply. The logic thought of this text is as follows: First of all, the meaning of career guidance is defined, to know vocational guidance in the complete meaning; Then the text has analyzed foreign relevant theory of career guidance that has directive significance to career guidance for college student in our country; On the basis of comparing and drawing lessons from foreign outstanding achievement, combining our country's conditions and the individual characteristics of college student, the text has discussed theoretical foundations of our country , such as philosophy , sociology , pedagogy and psychology of ,etc.. Then, combining the employment situation and the question existing in college's traditional career guidance in our country, the text has explained necessity, urgency and importance of career guidance for college student in our country. Fully realizing the meaning and the importance of career guidance for college student is prerequisite that guarantees the work progresses smoothly. Finally, directing against the question that exists in college's tradition careers guidance, on the basis of referring the western relevant theory and successful experience of career guidance, combining theoretical foundation of career guidance in our country, the text has put forward basic principle and tactics of career guidance for college student in our country.