Research and Practice on Cultivating Pattern of “Cooperation Between School and Enterprise, Combining Learning with Working, Group Developing” in Higher Vocational Education

The innovation of cultivating pattern is a decisive question in higher vocational education. The cultivating pattern of “Cooperation between School and Enterprise, combining learning with working, Group Developing” is the professional one which takes college–industry collaboration, joint effort in nurturing students and employment, cooperation and development as the main line, the employment as the guidance, the ability as the standard under the comprehensive arrangement of the local government. And it aims at cultivating quality-oriented personnel. Tianshui tourism Vocational Education Group, which is built with Gansu Industry Polytechnic College at the core, has already obtained satisfying results and extracted the crucial steps with the successive exploration and practice on cultivating pattern in the past 3 years. During this process, the innovation and reform about the curriculum system setting based on the course of work is the breakthrough to put the cultivating pattern into effect. Meanwhile, the established school mutual training center by enterprise and college and the external Ding Gang internship base are the supports to carry out the cultivating pattern. Besides, the formation of professional teaching team with higher vocational characteristic is the guarantee to implement it. What is more, the leading role and the platform from the government are the push factors to achieve the pattern.