Baotou vocational college wins national award for teaching

Baotou Vocational & Technical College won awards at the teaching ability competition of the 2019 National Vocational Students Skills Competition -- with two projects winning first prizes, one project winning a second prize and four projects winning third prizes -- according to a Dec 7 report in the Baotou Daily.

The National Vocational Students Skills Competition, which is also known as China Skills, is a national vocational college student skills contest initiated by the Ministry of Education.

The teaching competition, hosted by the ministry, attracted the participation of 37 teams from across the country.

Established in 1956, Baotou Vocational & Technical College was approved by the Ministry of Education to be a vocational college in 1998. In 2004 it was identified by the Ministry of Education and other six ministries as one of the Colleges to Develop Nationally Demanded Skilled Workers.

Baotou Vocational & Technical College covers an area of 67 hectares with a building area of 352,600 square meters.

The college boasts a total of 11 teaching departments including Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Humanities and the Art Design Department.

It also includes a school of continuing education, a national vocational skill appraisal institute, as well as a national vocational qualification appraisal and training department.

Officials said the college provides many practical training opportunities and it has 128 laboratories and training rooms, 284 off-campus training bases and 490 full-time teachers -- as well as 46 programs and almost 10,000 full-time undergraduates.