Vocational workers deserve respect, better pay

FOR THE FIRST TIME, 20 farmers have been admitted to Yangling Vocational and Technical College in Northwest China's Shaanxi province to receive full-time education over the next three years. China Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:

Yangling Vocational and Technical College should be praised for enrolling the farmers for professional training and further education. But as a vocational college, it was designed to do so in the first place. After all, its mission is to recruit technical and agricultural talents, and offer training courses to workers and farmers.

It took so long to fulfill its responsibility, to some extent, because of the underrated role and poor quality of vocational education in the country. Indeed, most teenagers prefer to enroll in universities to seek higher education rather than the vocational colleges.