A Practical Example on Enhancing Employability and Entrepreneurship in Institutions of Higher Education in China

Challenged by the severe graduation employment dilemma, the employability and entrepreneurship for student has become a core concern in Chinese higher education. This paper firstly shows the impact on the job market from the social economic development and higher educational structure transformation of the country. Then the problems in the talents cultivation system in Chinese institutions of higher education: gap between graduates supplies and social demands, lack of training in core competitiveness, and lack of systematic operation.are discussed. As a practical example, Ningbo Institute of Technology (NIT) Zhejiang University, China is shown as enhancing students' employability and entrepreneurship effectively. With fully awareness of the bottlenecks impeding the enhancement of students' employability and entrepreneurship, NIT has reformed the pattern of talents cultivation to meet local industrial requirements, and built a comprehensive and long-run guidance system for enhancing employability and entrepreneurship, so as to coordinate the graduates supply with social needs. Some suggestions for Chinese higher education institutions to enhance students' employability and entrepreneurship are put forward in this paper.