International Journal of New Developments in Education, 2026, 8(4); doi: 10.25236/IJNDE.2026.080401.
Jiang Hui1, Xia Zihui2
1College of Jincheng, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
2College of Jincheng, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Against the backdrop of modernizing the governance system of higher education in the new era, labour education—an institutional arrangement central to fulfilling the fundamental mandate of fostering virtue through education—has become closely intertwined with the quality of talent cultivation and the enhancement of college students’ employability. It has consequently emerged as a pivotal agenda in higher education reform. From a governance perspective, however, the advancement of labour education in universities continues to encounter structural constraints, including insufficient institutional provision, weak coordination among educational stakeholders, fragmentation across the educational process, and underdeveloped operational mechanisms. These deficiencies have impeded the effective realization of labour education’s formative function. The “Three-All Education” paradigm—emphasizing education by all staff, throughout the entire process, and across all dimensions—offers a systematic framework and normative orientation for optimizing the governance architecture of labour education. Guided by the institutional logic of comprehensive and coordinated cultivation, universities should undertake a structural reconfiguration of labour education governance. At the level of actors, this entails establishing a multi-stakeholder, collaborative governance mechanism; at the procedural level, strengthening the systemic integration of the educational chain; at the spatial level, deepening curricular integration and expanding experiential learning platforms; and at the institutional level, refining evaluation systems and safeguarding mechanisms. Such reforms would generate a governance framework characterized by clearly delineated responsibilities, efficient operation, and orderly coordination, thereby promoting students’ holistic development while enhancing both educational effectiveness and institutional governance capacity.
At Higher Education Institutions, Labour Education, Three-All Education, Fostering Virtue through Education
Jiang Hui, Xia Zihui. The Governance Dilemmas and Reform Pathways of Labor Education in Higher Education under the "Three-All Education" Paradigm. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 4: 1-6. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2026.080401.
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