Wuhan Polytechnic

Wuhan Vocational and Technical College is a full-time general college approved by the Ministry of Education of China, sponsored by the People's Government of Hubei Province, and directly under the Hubei Provincial Department of Education. Its earliest history can be traced back to 1972. The school is located in the central location of "Wuhan·China Optics Valley", and has created a successful example of regional, international and modern higher vocational education, becoming a famous brand of higher vocational education that leads Jingchu and demonstrates the whole country.

The school is a national model higher vocational college, a national high-quality junior college, a national "double high plan" high-level professional group (A grade) construction unit, a national scarce talent training base, a national high-skilled talent training demonstration base, a national advanced unit of vocational education, the first batch of vocational college principal training bases, a national key construction base for vocational teacher training, a national typical experience university for employment work, and a national demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform; it was rated as "Top 50 Teaching Resources in 2019" by the Ministry of Education, "Top 50 International Influence of Higher Vocational Colleges in 2019", and "Top 50 Cases of Student Management in Vocational Colleges in China in 2018" by the Ministry of Education. The school has been awarded the "Top 50 Internship Management Schools in China in 2017" and the "Excellent School Award of the Fifth Huang Yanpei Vocational Education Award". It is a civilized campus in Hubei Province, an advanced collective for employment of college graduates in Hubei Province, an advanced unit for science and technology services to Hubei, an advanced unit for talent work in Hubei, and an advanced university serving the economic and social development of Hubei. At the same time, the school is also a member of the presidium of the National Joint Conference of Presidents of Vocational Colleges and Universities, a vice-chairman unit of the Vocational and Technical Education Branch of the China Higher Education Society, an executive director unit of the China Vocational and Technical Education Society, a director unit of the Higher Vocational Education Branch of the China Vocational and Technical Education Society, a vice-chairman unit of the Hubei Higher Education Society, and a member of the Hubei Vocational and Technical Education Society. President unit, President unit of Higher Vocational and Technical Education Branch of Hubei Higher Education Society.

The school adheres to the school motto of "virtue, learning, truth-seeking and innovation" and has formed the school-running philosophy of "one persistence - adherence to the direction of higher vocational education; two satisfactions - to the greatest extent possible to meet the diverse needs of society for higher vocational education, to the greatest extent possible to meet the needs of students for knowledge, skills, and jobs; three combinations - to achieve the combination of school and enterprise, professional and industry, knowledge, ability and quality; four bases - the school is people-oriented, school-running is teacher-oriented, education is student-oriented, and talent training is ability-oriented" in the long-term school-running practice. The school has established a development strategy of "establishing the school, developing the school with characteristics, and strengthening the school with brands", adheres to the development path of "taking moral education as the foundation, serving development as the purpose, promoting employment as the orientation, and taking the development path of combining industry, academia and research", and has formed its characteristics in the open school-running model with deep integration of school and enterprise, flexible teaching system, "three-dimensional education" system, comprehensive quality concept with comprehensive ability and quality as the core, and international cooperation and exchange.

The school currently covers an area of ​​1,580 acres, with a construction area of ​​687,600 square meters and a total fixed asset value of 1.33 billion yuan. The school has 62 on-campus training bases, including 3 national training bases for CNC technology, optoelectronic technology, and biopharmaceutical technology, and 16 provincial training bases 260 laboratories, 323 off-campus training bases, 1 national "13th Five-Year Plan" industry-education integration development project, 1 national demonstration vocational education group (alliance), and the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment reached 270 million yuan. The school has a collection of 1.4465 million paper books and 13 databases, including 3.431 million electronic books. The school's total export bandwidth is 10Gbps, the campus network backbone bandwidth is 10Gbps, there are 24,561 information points and 3,760 wireless APs; the school has a private cloud data center with an information system data storage of 5.6TB; the campus card system, comprehensive security system, standardized examination room system and other information infrastructure are complete.

The school currently has 14 secondary colleges with a total of 67 majors, covering more than ten applied technology and education fields such as telecommunications, electromechanical, computer (information and innovation), architecture, business (smart business), art, foreign languages ​​and foreign trade, cultural media, tourism and aviation, textiles and clothing, biology, international education, continuing education, and dual-innovation education. It has formed a professional cluster with 22 national-level title majors as the leader, 35 provincial-level title majors as the main body, and 15 international cooperation majors as the characteristics. Among them, there are 5 national demonstration majors, 2 key majors supported by the Central Finance, 8 backbone majors of the Action Plan for the Innovation and Development of Higher Vocational Education, 5 modern apprenticeship pilot majors, and 22 provincial key, brand, and characteristic majors; Hubei Equipment Manufacturing and Hubei Tourism are the top 10 vocational education brands in Hubei, and the professional service regional industrial development capabilities have been greatly enhanced.

The school implements the "talent-strengthening school" strategy. There are 1,451 faculty and staff, including 850 full-time teachers on campus and 520 part-time teachers outside the school. Among the full-time teachers, 557 have a master's degree or above, accounting for 65.5%, 413 are professors and associate professors, accounting for 48.6%, and the proportion of "double-qualified" teachers to professional teachers exceeds 90%. The school has 1 inspector from the Ministry of Education, 7 experts with subsidies from the State Council and provincial governments, 4 national outstanding teachers, 1 national technical skill master, 4 provincial teaching masters and outstanding teachers, 2 national teaching teams, and 5 provincial teaching teams. The school has 14 members of the National Industry Vocational Teaching Guidance Committee, 1 expert from the Equipment Expert Committee of the Ministry of Education, and 4 national and Hubei Provincial Vocational Colleges Talent Training Evaluation Experts. 23 foreign teachers are employed.

The school actively carries out domestic and foreign cooperation in running schools, and has established exchanges and working relations with 107 colleges or educational institutions in 28 countries and Taiwan, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Singapore, etc., and carried out 55 international education projects of various types. More than 2,000 alumni study and work abroad, and took the lead in establishing the "Hubei Vocational Education International Exchange Alliance", and won the "2018 World Vocational Education Alliance Excellence Award". Relying on the industry, the school initiated and took the lead in establishing four vocational education groups in Hubei Modern Manufacturing, Electronic Information, Tourism, and Biology, and carried out long-term "industry-university-research" cooperation with more than 300 companies and institutions such as IBM, Haier, Huazhong Numerical Control, Lenovo, and Yangtze Memory.

The school recruits students from 27 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions across the country, with 22,000 students on campus. The employment rate of graduates has been stable for a long time at more than 96%, and the school's employment work has been commended at the provincial level or above 7 times. The school has established 12 research institutions, including the Institute of Social Vocational and Vocational Education, the Institute of Tourism and Tourism Vocational Education, and the Huatai Electromechanical Technology Research Institute, and 6 doctoral research teams. It provides practical technical consultation, training, research and development, promotion and other services to more than 300 enterprises and institutions, with a technical service amount of more than 15 million yuan. It provides technical research and development and technical services to industry enterprises, with an annual social service fund amount of 20 million yuan. The school has assisted in the construction of 12 vocational colleges in the central and western regions, and focused on supporting the construction of Wuhan Vocational College Xinjiang Bozhou Branch, a brand of education aid to Xinjiang in Hubei Province. The school trains more than 1,000 vocational teachers nationwide and in the province each year, and conducts more than 40,000 vocational technical skills training each year.

At present, the school is strengthening the comprehensive and strict governance of the party, deeply implementing the quality improvement and excellence training plan, deepening the construction of "double high", carrying out education and teaching reforms in all directions, implementing the "five forces" strategy of leadership, execution, teaching, culture and academic strength, and focusing on promoting the comprehensive reform of "three-dimensional education". All teachers, students and staff of the school are committed to the construction of a modern vocational education system, accelerating the construction and development of connotation, running higher vocational education that satisfies the people, and working hard to build the school into a first-class vocational and technical university.

(Updated October 2021)