On July 13, 2016, the graduation ceremony of the first BASF Class of SPA, the opening ceremony of the second BASF Class and BASF Summer Camp were held in the conference room on the second floor of the new training building on the south campus of SPA. German leaders and guests attending the ceremony included Dr. Bradley Morrison, BASF Global Senior Vice President, Dr. Xue Congjun, Global Vice President, Cheng Min, director of Operations and Engineering Manpower Resource Management, Lu Qiang, HR Manager, Ines Kramer, general manager of BBZ Training Center, Steffen Krämer and Benjamin Ottmers, German experts, Wilhelm Dittrich, president of Vocational Education of AHK, Chen Liwei, deputy president of Vocational Education of AHK. Chinese leaders and guests included director of Vocational Education of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Zhang Fushun, deputy director of Vocational Education of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Gu Hongwei, director of Shanghai Jinshan Education Bureau, Zheng Ying, deputy Director of Shanghai Jinshan Education Bureau, Li Songhao, director of Vocational Education Department, Lin Guoxin, Party secretary and vice principal of SPA, Gao Ju, and Huang Hanjun, vice principal of SPA, and teachers and students of BASF Class and all the trainees of BASF Summer Camp attended the ceremony.
In 2015, cooperated with BASF, SPA set up the first BASF Chemical Operator Class, which is the first class to be cultivated by SPA with professional teaching standards at an international level.
In 2010, SPA signed a cooperation letter of intent with Lisa-Meitner School in Berlin, the Chemical Industry Training Association in the Northeastern Germany, and the Chemical Employers' Federation in the Northeast of Germany. They jointly developed eight professional core courses with international standards. The curriculum system adopted by the first BASF Class is a new set of professional and curriculum standards jointly developed by China and Germany. Lao Xiaoyan spoke highly of the tripartite cooperation. She said that the cooperation is a successful practice for SPA to introduce internationally renowned vocational education and training brands to carry out the localization of the German “dual system”, which greatly enriched and deepened the cooperation between SPA and enterprises. It will make beneficial exploration and accumulate valuable experience for the internationalization of Shanghai vocational education.
German dual-system vocational training model has achieved fruitful achievements in China through tripartite cooperation. Ines Kramer said that today is an unusual day for the students of the first BASF Class. The students have completed three years of study and will enter BASF as regular employees, making an important step for their future career. For SPA and BBZ, it is also an important day. Six years ago, the two sides signed an agreement on cooperation for the first time. Since then, the two sides have cooperated closely and sincerely. Now the two sides are not only cooperation partners but also friends. For the school, today is a most meaningful and important day. The training standards and teaching methods introduced from Germany are very different from those familiar to the teachers of SPA. How to implement the new standards is a big challenge for them. However, with the joint efforts of the three parties, in a very short period of time, the new standard teaching was successfully carried out.
Xue Congjun believes that with the cooperation of the three parties, the chemical operator training projects will allow more students to experience the spirit of German craftsmanship and it will become a model of vocational education.
The leaders and guests attending the ceremony issued course-completion certificates for the students of the first BASF Class. Ines Kramer presented gifts to the outstanding students of the first BASF Class. Hu Dijun, the class teacher of the first BASF Class reviewed the life and study of the class over the past years. Hu Dijun expressed her sincere hope to the students who are about to enter the enterprise. She hopes that the students can learn from their colleagues and work hard to make greater progress. As a student representative, Luan Jialei said that he will continue to study and work hard to become an excellent employee in BASF.
In recent years, SPA has attached great importance to the cooperation with well-known enterprises and vocational training institutions at home and abroad to develop professional technical standards and professional teaching standards. It has set a good example in the field of vocational education in Shanghai.
BASF is a Fortune 500 chemical company with more than a decade of cooperation with SPA. SPA and BASF have had many successful cooperation in order-oriented cultivation, research on teaching and the training of teachers. Dr. Bradley Morrison mentioned that safety and high efficiency are the base of the company's production. To achieve the goal, the company needs to hire and train the best employees. It is very effective for enterprises to train their employees by means of the chemical operator class and the employee summer camp. Lin Guoxin said that with the successful teaching experience of the first Bath Class, the school's teaching team will continue to improve the teaching methods and optimize the training program to achieve better teaching results.
Promoting the integration of production and education and school-enterprise cooperation are not only the general trend under China’s new normal, but also the only way to improve the quality of talents cultivated by the school under the background of transformational development. The establishment of the second BASF Class has opened a new chapter in school-enterprise cooperation. Wilhelm Dittrich proposed that in the construction of dual system in China, all parties present should actively participate and bring about positive changes. Gu Hongwei said that vocational education of Jinshan District needs more high-standard, high-level international education and training, and they will continue to support the cooperation between SPA , BASF and BBZ.
