A Study On Indian IT Vocational Education

The 21st century is an era of knowledge economy. In this century, the competiUon of science and technology becomes the focus of the competition of each country's comprehensive national power, and the essential of the competition of science and technology is the competition of workforce's quality. Therefore, to be more competent, developed countries and new industrialized countries have confirmed the key developing fields of science and technology that are helpful to economy growth and country's safety. Information Technology (IT) industry is one of the fields which is a very important and promising industry. Therefore, IT industry is not only the attention of the government and the industry, but also should be one of the important study fields of education and economy domain.Western economists consider that it is very difficult for the countries in the third w,orld to develop their high-tech, however, the western industrialized countries rely on India to develop their IT. It is India with the illiteracy of one-second of its population that becomes the ijumber two in software industry among the countries in the world. The successful training of talents in Indian IT industry is one of the important reasons. The industrialized vocational education in Indian IT industry especially trained many "blue collars" with high quality and low cost in software industry, which build the stable basis of a reasonable structure of talents. China is similar to India in many aspects but far behind India in software industry. Therefore, thetraining mode of Indian IT vocational education is of great significance in use for reference for China.In this paper, the author analyzes the historical background and the impacting factors on the success of Indian IT vocational training. The impacting factors include: a) policies of Indian government and folk investment; b) Indian government attach importance to the prevalence of computer education; c) historical background and education tradition of India; d) successful running of Indian IT vocational education. In this paper, the author also pointed out the problems in China's IT education. At last, the author pointed out the enlightenment for China's education that includes: a) increase training channels of talents and attach importance to the function of vocational education; b) change conventional education idea and borrow the advanced teaching modes from other countries or fields; c) pay attention to the renewal of courses and textbooks with the development of the industry; d) tie up with enterprises, form an education mode of combination of production and study; e) ability-focused, pay attention to the training of compound and utility talents, f) strengthen the education in elementary and high schools of our country.