{"id":8087,"date":"2021-12-13T16:12:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T08:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.ift.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/?p=8087"},"modified":"2022-02-09T16:41:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T08:41:12","slug":"iftm-hosts-cross-strait-vocational-skills-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/iftm-hosts-cross-strait-vocational-skills-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"IFTM hosts cross-strait vocational skills festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8087 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-herald-lay-a'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"herald-popup\" href='https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Ping-Li-Haoyao-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Ping-Li-Haoyao-2-990x556.jpg\" class=\"attachment-herald-lay-a size-herald-lay-a\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Ping-Li-Haoyao-2-990x556.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Ping-Li-Haoyao-2-470x264.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Ping-Li-Haoyao-2-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Ping-Li-Haoyao-2-215x120.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Ping-Li-Haoyao-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Ping-Li-Haoyao-2-414x232.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8088'>\n\t\t\t\tProfessor Li Ping (left) and student Li Haoyao (right), from Guangzhou City Polytechnic\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"herald-popup\" href='https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Weiwei-Chen-Jinchuan.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Weiwei-Chen-Jinchuan-990x556.jpg\" class=\"attachment-herald-lay-a size-herald-lay-a\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Weiwei-Chen-Jinchuan-990x556.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Weiwei-Chen-Jinchuan-470x264.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Weiwei-Chen-Jinchuan-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Weiwei-Chen-Jinchuan-215x120.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Weiwei-Chen-Jinchuan-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Li-Weiwei-Chen-Jinchuan-414x232.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8089'>\n\t\t\t\tMr. Li Weiwei (left) and student Chen Jinchuan (right), from the Guangzhou Vocational School of Tourism and Business\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<span class='pum-trigger  popmake-8091  text-center font-blue' data-do-default=''>\u4e2d\u6587\u6458\u8981 \/ Summary in Chinese<\/span>\n<p>IFTM was responsible for Macao\u2019s hosting in early December of the third edition of the Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Vocational Skills Festival. The event involved about 100 instructors and students from a number of vocational education institutions, exchanging insights on topics ranging from career planning to boosting human resource mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on regional travel, this year\u2019s edition featured an online segment, complementing the offline part of the event. The latter took place at a vocational and technical education activities centre in Seac Pai Van, a facility under Macao\u2019s Education and Youth Development Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-day festival was jointly held by IFTM, the Guangzhou Vocational School of Tourism and Business, the Guangzhou City Polytechnic, the Chinese Culinary Institute in Hong Kong, and Kai Ping Culinary School in Chinese Taiwan. The Macao Education and Youth Development Bureau helped co-organise the event.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s edition featured keynote presentations, a forum, and a series of skill demonstrations. The overall event covered a total of 5 categories of vocational training: culinary arts; food and beverage service; hospitality service; beauty and hairdressing; and floral art.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Li Ping, who heads the International Exchange and Cooperation Centre of Guangzhou City Polytechnic, says the festival provided a \u201cgreat platform for mutual learning\u201d, with students showcasing their skills and instructors broadening their horizons. It was also an opportunity to discuss how to increase vocational training standards, and to look into the joint development of teaching materials, she says.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Li points out this was the first time that IFTM and the Guangzhou City Polytechnic had engaged in exchanges on vocational training. She was particularly impressed by the Macao Occupational Skills Recognition System (MORS), developed by IFTM in partnership with the local tourism and hospitality industry.<\/p>\n<p>Li Haoyao was one of the students from Guangzhou City Polytechnic attending the festival in person, demonstrating her knowledge about cocktails. \u201cWe presented our best and most creative recipes, and we received positive feedback. This was a great platform for us to learn,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>The Mainland student notes that the vocational skills festival was not a competition. \u201cWe were attending it on a \u2018learning and appreciating\u2019 basis,\u201d Haoyao says. \u201cWe are really happy to have learned so many different techniques and to have achieved fruitful results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning from others<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Vocational Skills Festival took place in academic year 2015\/2016, hosted by the Guangzhou Vocational School of Tourism and Business. For this year\u2019s event, that school sent to Macao a delegation featuring some 40 instructors and students.<\/p>\n<p>The Head of the Department of Hotel Management at the school, Mr. Li Weiwei, highlights the festival\u2019s importance in promoting integration of resources in vocational education in tourism. He says the festival also helps participating students to gain a wider perspective of the professional fields they are studying, by engaging with a variety of educational concepts and techniques.<\/p>\n<p>The Guangzhou Vocational School of Tourism and Business delegation also had the chance to experience the service standards in Macao\u2019s tourism and hospitality industry. \u201cWe found out that hospitality in Macao is really great, so we learned a lot from this experience, and can now use that to raise the teaching quality at our school,\u201d Mr. Li says.<\/p>\n<p>For student Chen Jinchuan, from the Guangzhou institution, taking part in the cross-strait festival was part of his preparation for next year\u2019s WorldSkills Competition, to be held in Shanghai. The international contest, staged every 2 years, is the world\u2019s biggest vocational education and skills tournament, and Jinchuan is part of the Mainland team, competing in the cooking category.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vocational skills festival is not a competition and there is no pressure of being eliminated,\u201d he says, in comparing the event to WorldSkills. \u201cAll participants at the festival put their skills and ideas on show, and shared them with the others. This enhanced mutual improvement,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFTM was responsible for Macao\u2019s hosting in early December of the third edition of the Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Vocational Skills Festival. 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