On the 18th, a sophomore at the Shenyang Urban Construction College reported that the school forced summer vacations at Yantai Foxconn in Shandong to be practiced. The counselor informed that if they did not practice, it would affect graduation. Future Network reporter called the City Construction College and the Liaoning Provincial Department of Education on this matter several times and no one answered the call. Li Yue (a pseudonym) is one of the students who participated in this internship. When the Future Net reporter contacted her, she was receiving Foxconn's pre-internship training.
Original title: Not practicing without graduation? Shenyang City Construction College students protest "forced internship"
"This is just filming." Li Yue sent a picture with a group of people shoulder-to-shouldered and sitting under a dark pressure. In front of him, a person is pointing to the screen to explain.
The room in which Li Yue is being trained has less than 150 square meters filled with 300 people. (Image provided by interviewee)
“The room does not exceed 150 square meters. We have 300 students in one house and a total of two houses,†said Li Yue. Although 1 square meter has to squeeze two people now, she said that it is now much better than when she first came. “We had 700 people crowded into one house in the first two days.†Li Yue told reporters.
It is understood that the students of the 700 urban construction colleges, including Li Yue, were the first to practice in Foxconn, Yantai, Shandong. The students mainly come from two faculties - Information Department and Mechanical Department. The internship time is from July 15 to October 15 for a period of 3 months.
"The school informed us about the summer vacation around the end of June. When we didn't come, we didn't know that the situation was so bad." Li Yue complained that it wasn’t just that hundreds of people were put into a 100-square-meter room every day to attend class training, and that other meals were arranged very difference. “We haven’t eaten enough with the canteen and the aunt’s main dish, and the blue vest (Foxcono staff) has called us: 'Go back!'â€
The student's breakfast lunch. (Image provided by interviewee)
In addition, some students believe that schools and Foxconn have administrative management deficiencies. "All things seem to be determined on an ad hoc basis, and they have no clue. For example, let's gather at 7:30 today and go halfway to regroup at 8:30. This kind of thing is not once or twice." The student said. At the beginning, I was very much looking forward to Foxconn, one of the top 500 companies in the world. I am now completely disappointed.
Seeing bad circumstances, many students began to protest, but asking the school to stop the internship seemed to be a “luxuryâ€. "The school has a degree certificate to pressure us. Without an internship, we don't have a degree certificate. We don't have to go to college.†Li Yue is distressed. The credit for practice is more than 10 points. If she does not practice, she will have a great impact on graduation.
The reporter asked if he could go to other units to practice or renew the practice credits through other means. Li Yue replied: The sophomore internships were all to Foxconn, and they did not go to other places. "We have classmates who ask teachers. Can we not go to Kaoyan? The counselor can't say it," she added.
Li Yue told reporters that the teacher is currently visiting a dormitory and persuaded the students to sign an agreement. In the tripartite internship agreement provided by the students, the reporter saw the first paragraph of the agreement stating: Party A (Yantai Foxconn) agrees that Party B (school) is in accordance with the agreed conditions, under the premise of Party C (intern trainee) independent and voluntary , Select Party C to Party A for internship, and the three parties shall fully consult and enter into this agreement on an equal and voluntary basis.
The school requires the signing of a tripartite internship agreement. (Image provided by interviewee)
However, according to the reporter’s understanding, many students cannot independently select internship units, but instead “passively†train to the units without knowing the specific circumstances of the internship units.
During the interview investigation, the reporter found that not only sophomores in the school had encountered "forced internships", but also juniors also said that internships should be "allocated with the school."
“The internship is forced to go to the school to arrange the place. The monthly salary is generally three to five hundred, and the maximum of one thousand and five are at least moneyless and work in white.†Lin Fang (a pseudonym) has risen to her fourth grade since starting school this year, she said. The school does not allow students to practice in other places, but most of the internships offered by the school are sales, “responsible for making calls, sending flyers.†She feels that her salary is low and she is also less than professional.
"If the internship is a month or two, it will endure, but the school and the internship unit signed a four-month contract." Lin Fang lives in a foreign country and spends several hundred yuan on rent every month during the internship. The pressure is considerable.
At present, in order to communicate with the school in the hopeless situation, many students use microblogging and other online platforms to reflect the school's "compulsory internship" problem, and initiated in the microblogging # internship not allowed to graduate # topic discussion, the topic of reading more than 5 million, discussed more than 7,000, once reached the hot search list.
The reporter found out under this topic that not only did Shenyang City Construction College have a shortage of internship management, many students also complained that there were many problems in their internships arranged by the school. Some friends ridicule: the same world, the same kind of school.
Many netizens said that they have similar experiences. (Image from Weibo screenshot)
For the internship management in universities, as early as in 2016, the Ministry of Education and other five departments jointly issued the Regulations for the Practice Management of Students in Vocational Schools, which emphasizes the management of the entire process, highlights the teaching and education attributes of internships, and deals with some key aspects such as internship agreements, Internship remuneration, prohibition items, etc. have been emphasized and detailed, requiring vocational colleges should be based on professional personnel training programs, and internship units to develop internship plans, internship posts should meet the requirements of professional training objectives, and the students learn professional counterparts or similar. In addition, it is clearly stated that students can choose their own internship internships after they have applied for permission and the consent of the vocational school.
In this regard, Li Haiyun, associate professor of the School of Education Science at Shanxi Normal University, believes that regardless of whether it is a vocational school or private or public, it should be in accordance with the regulations. She said that some schools use students as tools for the acquisition of benefits and cheap labor, causing extremely negative effects.
She suggested that school internships should have unified principles and basic requirements. At the same time, they should have training and assessment of the qualifications of school principals and other senior management personnel, and should promptly supervise and remind them. In addition, higher education administrations can also set up corresponding internship supervisory departments to supervise the internships of their schools in real time.
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