A Study on the Cultivation Pathways of Vocational Undergraduate Students in Metallurgical Majors from the Perspective of High-Quality Employment

Abstract

Full, high-quality employment is the basic aim of vocational undergraduate education. The iron and steel industry is now transforming in ways that are intelligent and green, and this raises a direct question: how should vocational undergraduate students in metallurgical majors be trained to meet the requirements of high-quality employment? This paper begins from the policy and theoretical meaning of high-quality employment and argues that vocational undergraduate training should stop judging its success by the employment rate alone and start judging it by employment quality. It then works through the logic of building cultivation pathways for these students. The pathways bring together three channels, namely classroom teaching, out-of-class activities, and cooperation between schools and enterprises, and link them into a loop of goal setting, pathway design, process delivery, and evaluation and feedback. The paper concludes that a usable pathway has to align what industry needs, how students grow, and what education supplies, so that the resulting system can be operated, assessed, and adjusted over time. This offers a reference for reforming talent cultivation in metallurgical majors.