Research On The Current Situation Of Enterprise Participation In The Cooperation Between Higher Vocational Colleges And Enterprises

With the ever-lasting development of market economy, business-education partnership has been inserted into the higher vocational education system, which provides a constructive path to get rid of the plight in supply and demand of talents in the labor market. Businesses became one of the main participants involved in vocational education, with the ability to assume responsibility for education, hence their social functions should be effectively exerted. However, the existed researches are usually confined to the exploration at the level of school-enterprise cooperation, remaining in a perceptual awareness stage for a long time in the understanding of the participation of enterprises, and the external environment for enterprise policy is only a guide effect, while businesses has become one of the main participants involved in vocational education. Higher vocational education must deeply understand the current situation of the enterprises’ participation, which is the very key to overcoming the problems in business-education partnership. Therefore, based on the deep analyses of the background of enterprises’participation in business-education partnership, this study attempts to give detailed definitions to some relevant concepts, and combined with Supply Chain Coordination Management Theory and University-Industry Collaboration Theory, to put forward theoretical explanations to enterprises’participation in business-education partnership in higher vocational education.In this study,32 enterprises in three cities of Jiangsu Province are researched in questionnaires and interviews from five perspectives, namely, the willingness of enterprises to participate in business-education partnership, obstacles, path, effectiveness as well as of the assessment. Meanwhile, through the research of the university in the partnership and the analysis of the government’s policies and measures, and combining with University-Industry Collaboration Theory, this paper summarizes five underlying reasons for the present problems(including low willingness, lack of motivation, low level, few benefits and difficult to assess) faced by the businesses in the business-education partnership in Jiangsu Province. They are:1) government’s design is imperfect and lack of feasibility,2) businesses participate with a single motivation,3) the long-term mechanism of enterprises’participation needs to be explored in depth,4) the effectiveness of enterprises’participation is difficult to ensure, and 5)There are few Institutions that can comprehensively supervise the quality of the cooperation.Finally, based on Supply Chain Coordination Management Theory, the present thesis is intended to break the "collective awkwardness" among businesses, universities and the government and give the three parties in the business-education partnership some suggestions from strategic, tactical and operational levels. They are:1) strategically, form a "Trinity" of government, business and university to boost the strategic position of the enterprise; 2) tactically, establish a win-win "triple helix" type of partnership; and 3) operationally, participants "carry out their duties" to improve the micro-management of the supply chain, creating real synergies among all aspects of each subject. Drawing on the successful experience of German "Dual System", Australian "TAFE" and the United States "co-education" to support the given proposals is to ensure that enterprises are more active, more smooth, more effective to participate and cooperate, so as to form a mechanism of cooperation whose "process is jointly built, results and responsibilities are shared" to benefit universities, businesses and government to the greatest extent.