Ms Zhang Aijun with SIBS: Every student's individuality respected with a global vision

Multiple educational reform measures have been introduced or implemented under the education policy reform in 2022, which will effectively enhance schools' educational level, give respect to the individuality of each child, and help cultivate high-quality students with an international perspective.

In a recent interview with Ms Zhang Aijun, principal and individual investor of Springboard International Bilingual School (SIBS), she stated that each child's individuality needs to be respected with a global vision.

In the last decade, Ms Zhang has witnessed the changes in the educational system in China's reform and opening up. She felt vocational education has been gradually neglected compared with rapid economic growth in the country. However, the country now is investing targeted efforts to develop vocational education, which fully conforms to the future trend in China.

In other countries, for example, in Germany, students can apply for applied bachelors' degree, master's degree and even doctoral degree from secondary and higher vocational schools.

Germany designed its educational system with diversions and a returning channel, which provides students an opportunity to adjust and choose for themselves. There is a similar system in the UK and Australia. In many western countries, the salary of vocational and technical personnel even exceeds that of university graduates.

China's educational system is still in its reform and development. A scientific view on education and talents needs to be instructed and grounded among parents. It can be a long process.

Regarding the choice anxiety after the high school entrance examination, Ms Zhang believes that students should be the main entity to make the choice and that they should be provided with more opportunities to choose from. Many factors come to determine the results of that exam.

However, students' future should not be decided by one-time exam result. In Ms Zhang's teaching career, she has witnessed many students who became a final winner at the latter part of their education. There is nothing wrong with vocational education, but many people have prejudice against it. All in all, whether they apply for high schools and then the college, or they go to vocational schools to be a technical talent, both can be very good choices, as long as it suits the students.