What enlightenment does modern apprenticeship have on modern university engineering education?

The goal of vocational education is to enable learners to acquire the ability to engage in a certain occupation. However, theoretical knowledge learning and skill operation training alone are not enough to form professional ability, and simple work experience accumulation will bring about problems such as narrow vision. Therefore, vocational learning includes not only the acquisition of knowledge and skills, but also the reflection on work experience. The combination of knowledge and skills learning and relevant work experience acquisition is the common direction of the development of vocational education system in contemporary countries. In China, it is called "work-study combination", that is, the combination of work-study combination, enterprise training and school education, while in the world it is more called "modern apprenticeship" or "new apprenticeship", which has become an important content of international vocational education system innovation research.

The so-called "modern apprenticeship" is a kind of "school-enterprise cooperation vocational education system" which combines traditional apprenticeship training with modern school education, and it is the development of traditional apprenticeship. From 65438 to 0983, the Social Political Science Association in Basel, Switzerland, based on the study of the economic and social development of Britain, the most industrialized country in the world at that time, and referring to the industrial education in France, put forward a new apprenticeship model combining school education with practical work. In Germany, through the efforts of educator Kerschensteiner and others, this model has developed into a famous dual vocational education system. Dual system is a modern apprenticeship system that inherits history and realizes modern ideas, and its powerful effect of cultivating learners' comprehensive professional ability has attracted worldwide attention.