An Empirical Analysis of the Development of China’s Higher Vocational Education

Abstract

After more than 20 years of practice and construction, China’s higher vocational education has developed into an important educational category and become an important force in the development of China’s higher education. But in the course of this development, higher vocational education is facing problems such as excessively fast development, weak content building, severely inadequate investment, and uneven regional development. Therefore, the government must create a policy environment suitable for the equitable development of higher education, establish fair education spending policies, strongly promote the balanced development of regional higher vocational education, and strive to strengthen basic capabilities for quality projects.

Keywords:

• development issues
• development model
• development policies
• higher vocational education

Additional information

Funding

The research was supported by the National Education Science “10th five-year” plan (2003) Ministry of Education key topic “Research on the Higher Vocational Education Development Objective of Comprehensively Building a Well-Off Society” (DJB0 30355, chair: Wang Minglun).

Notes on contributors

Wang Minglun

Wang Minglun is director of the Jiangsu Province Occupational and Technical Education Science Research Center, China.