Research On The Transition Of Higher Vocational College(Junior College)

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the higher vocational education in our country has made great headways and has registered remarkable accomplishments. Its sheer volume in terms of number of enrollment stands testimony to its achievements made in tertiary education.Although progress has been made, the prevailing perception of the social status of these school as a downgraded version of tertiary education has not yet been altered. Parents, students and the market as a whole have not come to accept it as mainstream education. At the same time, questions still raise as to the legal status of some of these institutes.It is fair to say that the development of these colleges engaging in tertiary vocational education has all along been accompanied by pressures and obstacles. Externally, these may include the government and the market. From inside the organizations, they may be confined by their own history, convention, culture and recognition.These existing problems impose negative influence on its present development and its long-term development. In an age when the world economy is transforming and upgrading, the higher vocational colleges should follow the same track for further development. Only by doing so can we satisfy the demands for the social and economic development and meet the requirements of the ongoing world industry revolution.There is a great gap between the reality and the ideal. The reality is that our higher vocational education remains on the junior level and have no progress onto the senior level, which offers a bachelor’s degree, not to mention an even higher level after that. This tendency runs against the current practices in the world and does not meet the demand for human resources necessary for social and economic development. Therefore, it is the argument of this dissertation that vocational colleges should seek upgrading, which shall not be the same as undergraduate courses offered in other colleges and university. This transformation carries great significance. It will be meaningful, effective and will bring benefits to a wider public.Taking one higher vocational college in Jiangxi province as an example, this dissertation focuses on the development process and the author has a complete review about the college’s establishment, stopping, restoration and upgrading. In this dissertation, the author has also described and analyzed how the leadership adjust its running-school target, structure and function in order to obtain its "legal right" and the support from the external and internal parts. From the perspective of organizational research institutionalism, the author has explored the present institutionalized process and dilemma in the clue of history and on the basis of organizational field environment. Thanks to the his identity advantage, the researcher has adopted the qualitative research and the other various methods such as interview, literature, questionnaire survey, personal experience description and comparative research. In this dissertation, the author has investigated the college deeply and tried to find out the future way from the individual case, especially for the arts higher vocational colleges, which can provide referential practice model and theoretical support for Chinese higher vocational colleges’ transformation.This dissertation is organized in the following framework:Introduction is the general description about five aspects including the proposal of the issue, the research significance, the current situation about the research, the definition of some conceptions concerned and theoretical basis and research idea and methods.The first chapter is the exploration and discovery about the development history of the "w" college transition. It has described the difficulties and hardships during the 50 years development. Influenced by the global environment, the college has experienced four stages, which are establishment, stopping, restoration and upgrading. But there is a great development in each stage.The second chapter is the coping with the environmental change and target-orientation. It has explained how the college "W" coped with the difficulties during each stage in the several decades development in order to survive and develop in the world.The third chapter, the most rich part, is the college’s pain and strive for excellence in its structure readjustment and corresponding reforms for management regulations. This part focuses on both several great reforms for getting rid of survival and development crises to obtain its "legality" after W college upgrades to high vocational college, which produces this college certain influences, especially the influence brought by further transition to the university of applied technology.The fourth chapter is about the reflection on the experience and inspiration from college "W"’s successful transformation. This chapter is the conclusion for the previous three parts. It makes a conclusion about college "W’"s every transition, especially the successful experience from junior vocational college to higher vocational college. And this chapter provides a theoretical basis for the next chapter.Chapter five is about the college’s transitional trend. College W is supposed to develop towards universities of applied technology and sciences, which is a must of historical development, integration with the world economy and social economy development. However, during the transformation process, the government needs to play a full role and make top-level design from the nation’s perspective. Meanwhile, vocational colleges should also intensify their own quality construction. Meanwhile, he author has explained his idea about the transformational patterns with 3 elements each accounting for 15%. and "3-3-5" transformational time schedule for higher vocational college’s transformation to technology-applied university.The conclusion part summarizes the whole dissertation. The higher vocational college’s transition and upgrading is not only the great event of Chinese education, but also the inevitable choice for the education development. Education is the important cornerstone for national rejuvenation. Culture is basic source of the country’s prosperity. Just like the other universities, the higher vocational colleges also have to undertake the great mission to preserve the human culture, create and disseminate knowledge. To fulfill the great mission, the higher vocational college needs all kinds of support, especially support from the government, and improvement for internal college environment. The higher vocational colleges’ transition to the universities of applied technology is a necessity, however, there is a long way to go.