2022 the 3rd International Apprenticeships Conference

Based in China, Facing the World, Creating a Future Together
Modern Apprenticeships Model in the Age of Industry 4.0 was held successfully

On 25th May 2022, approved by the Ministry of Education of the PRC, organized by the National Institute of Education Sciences, co-organized by the Association of Education and Technology, the National Modern Apprenticeship Expert Steering Committee and the First Landing Education Company, undertook by Beijing Anzhuoshiji Education & Technology Co., LTD, 2022 the 3rd International Apprenticeships Conference was held online, which proved to be a great success.
With the theme of “Modern Apprenticeships Model in the Age of Industry 4.0”, this conference invited 26 distinguished and well-known government officers, experts, scholars and entrepreneur representatives from China, Britain, France, Switzerland, Germany as well as the international organizations such as United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, OECD. They shared their unique viewpoints and made some further discussions based on the current developments of apprenticeships in different countries, practices and exploration, training models, problems and challenges of apprenticeships.
This conference received a total of 37,681 viewers, many of whom are engaged in governments, industries, enterprises and institutes and pay great attention to vocational education.
Now, let’s review some highlights of this conference.

Opening Remarks

It is a great honor that we invited the leaders from the Department of Vocational and Adult Education, Ministry of Education of PRC, UNESCO-UNEVOC, as well as the guests from National Institute of Education Sciences and the Association of Education and Technology to join us and give opening remarks.

XIE Li

Deputy Director of Department of Vocational and Adult Education, Ministry of Education of PRC

Wilson Lima Júnior

Project Manager at UNESCO-UNEVOC

MA Tao

Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee and Secretary of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC, National Institute of Education Sciences

Nick Chrimes

Chairman at The Association of Education and Technology

Keynote Address

Liz Polding

Professor, Department of Education at University of Oxford

Marieke Vandeweyer

Leader of Vocational Education and Training Team at Centre for Skills, OECD

Georg Stadler

Chief Representative at Hanns Seidel Foundation

Erik Swars

Head of International Affairs at Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training (SUVET)

ZHAO Pengfei

Chairman of National Modern Apprenticeship Expert Steering Committee

XU Yuan

Senior Editor/Professor of Occupational Skill Testing Authority at Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the PRC

Theme Report

In the new journey of building a modern socialist country in all respects, vocational education turns to be a prosperous industry with a promising future. General Secretary XI Jinping attaches a great importance to vocational education. The rise of intelligent manufacture has opened up a new way for the upgrading and transforming of manufacturing. Building Huoshenshan Hospital in 10 days; building Leishenshan Hospital in 12 days during the pandemic; producing masks and anti-epidemic supplies with a surprising capacity that we have witnessed, or “The Jiaolong” and “FAST” (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope), a pillar of the great power, major projects such as Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge that bridges three cities together; Beijing Daxing International Airport with a pair of stunning wings that make Chinese people proud are all inseparable from the persistence, determination, refinement of the great national craftsmen with a conscientious spirit, aspiring after excellence. Training talents with better qualities to empower other areas and promote the industry’s development as a whole shows its significance during this process.

Anthony Mann

Senior Policy Analyst (Education and Skills) at OECD

MA Liangjun

President of Hebei Jiaotong Vocational and Technical College

Case-Study Report

In this new era, how can industries, enterprises and colleagues realize talent structure optimization and achieve an innovative development of talent training model? We invited the experts from the principal departments of governments, local industrial platforms, manufacturing, enterprises, renowned colleges to this conference. Focusing on the integration of industry and science & technology innovation, promoting the innovative development of talent training model in manufacturing, the experts gave us a number of cross-regional, broad, multiple and stereoscopic analysis, as well as professional evaluations, which enabled us to explore the talents’ high-quality development in manufacturing in China, even the globe. Their speeches can be regarded as a leading new power, contributing to the national vocational education’s high-quality development promotion in the new journey of vocational education reform.