Research On China’s Higher Vocational Education Development

Nowadays, the emphasis of the vocational education has reached anunprecedented stage. Due to the close relationship between the vocational educationand the economic development, the development of the vocational education hasbecome a hot topic which draws the attention of the people from all walks of life andthe educators. Since higher vocational education has double features of bothadvancement and professionalism and it plays a dual role in the construction ofnational education system and the lifelong education system, higher vocationaleducation is the important basis of the economic development of our country and thestrategic focus of the development of the educational career of our country. In therecent decade, the higher vocational education of our country has made someachievement in its scale of education, the quantity of recruit ion, and the quality of thecultivation of the talents. But what we have to face is, on one hand, our country hasput more emphasis on the higher vocational education. On the other hand, there is agreat contrast between the current situation and the expected role of the highervocational education. Higher vocational education faces a great amount ofproblems such as the students crisis, the graduates’ employment dislocation, and thelack of attraction. All of these problems have become the setback of the developmentof the higher vocational education.Due to the problems faced with the higher vocational education, the researcherson education and the staffs of the higher vocational education have made thedevelopment of the higher vocational education a common concern. The researches ofthe higher vocational education haven’t been stopped but many problems remain to bediscussed. Due to the fact that the methodology, theory and instrument of theresearches in the past are two simple, this research has a deep study of thedevelopment of the higher vocational education from the perspective of the systemanalysis. It analyzes the systematic facts of the development of higher vocationaleducation from the formal system and informal system. It tries to reveal the innerlogic of the development of the higher vocational education by analyzing the theoryand the logic. It also explores the institutional arrangements of the higher vocationaleducation development from the dimensions of the educational legal system,educational organization system and education operating mechanism and the choiceof individual education. This thesis provides some suggestion for the development of higher vocational education and it provides some academic support as well.The research includes seven parts that are organized as follows:Part1is the introduction of the research, which mainly includes the origin of thestudy, the significance of the study, the methodology of the study and the literaturereview of the related researches. It also proposes the innovation of the study.Part2is the chapter1of this research. It states the theoretical basis of theresearch, which includes the interpretation of the core concepts of system, formalsystem, and informal system of the higher vocational education. It provides aframework for constructing the formal and informal system of the higher vocationaleducation development. It explores the formation, development and the currentsituation of the formal and informal system of the higher vocational educationdevelopment of our country.Part3is the chapter2and chapter3of the research. These two chapters mainlymake a definition and the dimension division of the formal system and the informalsystem of the development of the higher vocational education development.Part4is the chapter4of this research. It reviews the development of highervocational education in our country briefly, the achievements and the problems facedby higher vocational education.Part5is the fifth chapter of this research. It concludes the construction of theformal and informal analytic framework of the higher vocational educationdevelopment. It analyzes the reasons of the problems from the perspectives of formalsystem and informal system and catalogues the reasons which constrain thedevelopment of higher vocational education.Part6is the sixth chapter of this research. It analyzes the experiences and theimplications of the higher vocational education development overseas from theperspective of system analysis. By a comparative study, it provides feasible theoryand practical basis for constructing the higher vocational education development.Part7is the chapter7of this research. It talks about the system arrangement of thehigher vocational education development in our country. It provides some practicalsuggestions for the sustainable development of the higher vocational education from fivedimensions of formal and informal system by constructing the system arrangementswhich suits the development of higher vocational education in our country.