The opening of the over-6,800 square meters Cambodian Vocational Education and Training Center located at the Cambodian National Institute of Technology is not a small deal for the local people.
Being the largets cooperative vocational education project between China and Cambodia, designed and built by Tianjin Sino-German University of Applied Sciences (TSGUAS), the center is equipped with the most advanced devices in urgent need.
The chief of the National Institute of Technology in Cambodia, Ben Felling, said that the advanced hardware equipments of mechanical processing technology, mechatronics technology and communication technology have excited the students.
Introduced together with China's advanced manufacturing equipment, there are also practical teaching materials, teaching management concepts and technical level standards for Chinese vocational education.
The training center adopts the learning and management concept of TSGUAS. And teachers have been sent by the TSGUAS to support the running of the the center.
The first Cambodian students to complete the Chinese teacher training and pass the assessment will become the first local teachers of the training center. They will inherit and develop China's professional skills and concepts.
Zhang Hua, president of TSGUAS said that over the 30 years of development, the university has benefited greatly from the concept and model of Germany's world-famous "dual system" vocational education under which students on the one hand learn in vocational schools whose main function is to impart professional knowledge related to occupations; on the other hand, they experience off-campus trainings such as in enterprises or public institutions. Talents are key factors for enterprises to "go out" in China's opening up and reform. Cultivating and training talents that are in need of Cambodian economic and industrial development is the main goal of the center.
More than 1,600 sets of equipment in 18 training rooms have all been put into teaching and training in CNC machining, electrician, hydraulic and pneumatic, Internet of Things, and communication network management. According to the plan, the scale and scope of training will be expanded.