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On The Studies Of The Contributions Of Vocational Education To The Development Of Economy, The Cost And Yield Of Vocational Education

Posted on:2007-05-26Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y B HangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360212955151Subject:Economics and Management
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This paper deals mainly with contributions made by the general higher education and vocational education to the growth of national economy, the analysis of the cost and yield of vocational education, the estimate of personal discount rate of recovery and the rate of social yield, and the strategies to improve the contributions of education and vocational education to the development of national economy. This thesis consists of eight chapters.Chapters 1 and 2 are the Introduction, major supporting theories and concept boundaries, and summaries of reference documents the brief comments on them. This part briefly introduces the background, purpose, significance, approaches of research, and the possible innovation and shortcomings. It is also devoted, in addition to the definition of the related concepts in this paper, to a historical review and basic evaluation of existing documents at home and abroad on the contributions of education in promoting national economy. On the basis of the review it puts forward the main problems to be examined in this thesis and the objective of the research, i.e. to summarize the characteristics of theories of human capital in different stages so as to reveal the connotation of contributions made by the general higher education and vocational education to the growth of national economy, and define the basic framework of their contributions to economic growth from the perspective of educational economic theories.Chapter 3 is the positive study of the contribution that China's vocational education makes to the growth of national economy. On the basis of Cobble-Douglas production function it designs and extends the model of measuring the contribution of education in promoting national economy. Having applied creatively the "coefficient admeasuring technique", the author solves the problem of measuring respectively the contributions of general higher education and vocational education to the growth of national economy. And based on the model, methods and means of measuring the contribution of education in promoting national economy have been established. By examining the insufficiency of calculation, fathered by the western authoritative scholar, of the educational contributions to the economic growth, this paper proposes a new model for increasing four correcting parameters, including the social and economic system, the quality of education, the addition of postgraduate education, and adult education as well. Adopting the model used by the celebrated western scholars, and the system of numbering developed in this thesis, contributions of all kinds of education in China in promoting national economy during the 11 years (from 1982 to 1993 and from 1993 to 2004) before and after practicing market economy are measured in this chapter as 7.53% and 9.071% respectively, of which the contribution of the vocational education in China during the period from 1993 to 2004 increased by approximately 5.897%. At the same time, the relevant revised parameters were selected according to China's reality and the new modified model was applied to measure the contribution made by education to economic growth from 1982 to 1993. Based on the composite analysis of information from abroad, a primary conclusion has been drawn as follows, contribution made by vocational education to economic growth is the highest of all and, therefore, to increase the proportion of vocational education is the key...
Keywords/Search Tags:vocational education, contribution to economic growth, education and employment, cost and yield, countermeasures and suggestions
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