The Study Of Vocational Education In Minority Areas Of Gansu Ningxia And Qinghai

During the economic growth and development in minority areas,the followingchain should not be ignored:economic backwardness-Educational backwardness-theshortage of professionals-economic backwardness.Accumulation,recycling,and theresultant effects generated by the chain is remarkable and an important truth couldbe summarized as follows:educational backwardness is the fundamental reasonaccounting for long-term economy lagging in minority areas.The research object of this study is vocational education,which is most closelylinked with economic development.The thesis discusses the weakness of vocationaleducation in minority areas of Gansu,Ningxia and Qinghai mainly from fiveaspects:the school running system,structural system,school running mode,professional settings,skills trainings.From the school running system,theinvestment entity of vocational education is mainly the government;school systemis rigid and the financing channels are narrow;the duty,rights and benefits arenot clear.All these limit the development of vocational education.As far as thestructural system is concerned,the secondary vocational schools in minority areasscatter away and there is a big demand for integration of resources.The highervocational education develops slowly.The vocational education,general educationand adult education are in poor communication.From the school running model,thecooperation of school-enterprise develops slowly,At present,the cooperativeschool-school model is of the main body,which cultures and transports the skilledto economically developed areas using the teaching resources of the helpingschools.From the professional settings,the majority of profession in ethnic areasare the same with the eastern schools.However,there are only a small number ofinadequately developed characteristic professions.From skills training,thevocational education in minority areas is of weak skills resulting from the lackof professional teachers and skills training conditions,seldom practice of teachingmethods,and other factors.Vocational education is the"secret weapon"of national economic growth anddevelopment.The"weakness"of vocational education in minority areas of Gansu,Ningxia and Qinghai has seriously restricted economic and social developments,whichare unbearable to the nation.This study calls for efforts to increase vocationaleducation to promote regional social and economic developments.