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Comparative Study On The Development Of Tertiary Vocational And Technical Education During The Course Of The Massification Of Higher Education

Posted on:2009-11-12Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X L FuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360245473178Subject:Vocational and Technical Education
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At the end of last century, higher education in China experienced a great and profound change. To accelerate the massification of Chinese higher education, the higher education expanded rapidly urging the fast development of tertiary vocational and technical education in a short time. The tertiary vocational and technical education is an important approach of the massification of higher education. Nine years past, many changes have taken place in the tertiary vocational and technical education including some developments and some problems during the fast massification of higher education. So it is necessary to think over the influence of the massification of higher education on the tertiary vocational and technical education. Based on the problems emerging in the tertiary vocational and technical education, the research will focus on the effect of massification of higher education on the tertiary vocational and technical education from the perspective of history and international comparison and find some resolutions. There are 6 chapters in the dissertation except the introduction.Chaper One. Theoretical analysis of the massification of higher education. The background of massification of higher education is unscrambled from the exterior and interior causation. Along with the expanding of higher education, new changes take place in its system, curriculum, administration and the relation with the exterior. The connotation of the massification of higher education can be analyzed through the comparison of the elite higher education and the mass higher education to establish a framework which can be used for analysis of the effect of the massification of higher education on the tertiary vocational and technical education.Chapter Two. Study on the development of the tertiary vocational and technical education during the course of the massification of higher education in America. The study is focused on the evolving development of the tertiary vocational and technical education in community colleges and technical colleges during the course of the massification of higher education in America from the perspective of the speed of development, the outlay, the quality and the higher education system.Chapter Three. Study on the development of the tertiary vocational and technical education during the course of the massification of higher education in Britain. The study is focused on the evolving development of the tertiary vocational and technical education in polytechnic colleges during the course of the massification of higher education in Britain from the perspective of the speed of development, the outlay, the quality and the higher education system.Chapter Four. Study on the development of the tertiary vocational and technical education during the course of the massification of higher education in Taiwan Province of China. The study is focused on the evolving development of the tertiary vocational and technical education in short-cycle colleges during the course of the massification of higher education in Taiwan Province of China from the perspective of the speed of development, the outlay, the quality and the higher education system.Chapter Five. Study on the development of the tertiary vocational and technical education during the course of the massification of higher education in China. The characters of the massification of higher education lie on which the whole higher education scale expands very rapidly in short time and the absolute scale is very large. The development of tertiary vocational and technical education accelerated the massification of higher education.Chapter Six. Study on the problem emerging in the tertiary vocational and technical education during the course of the massification of higher education. The problems include the effect of the rapid expanding of the students, the unfair structure of the allocation of funds, the lower quality and the close higher education system. Finally, the suggestions are put forward consulting the experience of other countries and areas.
Keywords/Search Tags:the massification of higher education, the tertiary vocational and technical education, development, comparative study
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