Micro-certificate Promotes the Inclusiveness and Flexibility of Vocational Education:EU Experience and Enlightenment
Globally,vocational education needs reform to address the rapid changes in the labor mar-ket driven by technological progress and social change.Micro-certificates,with their short,flexible,and fo-cused characteristics,have been highlighted as an important tool for reforming vocational education.Sum-marizes the experience of using micro-certificates in vocational education in the EU,including building trust among end-users,increasing value,and providing support to ensure the sustainability of micro-certifi-cate applications.It also discusses the problems encountered,including how to balance the flexibility of mi-cro-certificates with the rigidity of quality assurance,the organizational rigidity of power delegation and pro-fessionalism,and the balance between the cultivation of professional skills and the goal of holistic educa-tion.It is suggested that China should provide systematic policy support,establish quality assurance mecha-nisms,build a skills intelligence system,promote the participation and cooperation of multiple stakehold-ers,enhance public awareness and cognition,and promote the better role of micro-certificates in the reform of vocational education.