The Position and Role of Vocational Universities in the Vocational/Technical Educational System

Abstract

Since the Third Plenary Session of the party's Eleventh Central Committee, a question coming hard on the heels of urban and rural economic structural reform is how education can best serve socialist construction and how the latter should rely on education. The issue has aroused increasing public attention. Vocational universities, an outcome of the reform, were established to comply with the needs of all regions of the country for professionals at different levels. Such universities have developed rapidly and have shown great viability. Their growth has been stimulated by the proliferation of short-term vocational universities in developed countries and the advent of the modern scientific and technological revolution in the world, as well as by the support they have received within the country from the party and government at all levels and from society at large, especially from existing higher educational institutions.