Analyses And Countermeasures Of The Development Of Higher Vocational Education In Anhui Province

Since 1999, higher vocational education has been enjoying the rapid development with the growth of the higher education in China, its enrollment has been enlarged, and its scale has also been expanded. However, higher vocational education has faced a lot of probloms at the same time, and the development of higher vocational education in Anhui Province is the same case as in China. The number of students in vocational and technical colleges has surpassed half of the whole number of students in higher education in Anhui. Generally, the development is unbalanced and the investment is short. Therefore, it is of great importance to analyze the developing state of higher vocational education in our province, to find out the problems and to find the countermeasures in order to make it develop on a healthy and scientific track.The paper briefly reviews the course of the development of higher vocational education at home and abroad. It describes the significance of the development of higher vocational education and summarizes the present situation of the education in Anhui during the period of the 10th "5-year-plan".The paper also points out the problems existing in higher vocational education in our province, such as too rapid speed of its development and scale, backward conditions of school operation, less investment to education, poor construction of faculty as well as the slow construction of experiments and training, It puts forward several countermeasures, for example, strengthening the macroscopic adjustment and controls, increase the investment to higher vocational colleges, improving the construction of the teacher staff, enhancing training bases and constructing the speciality system which is suitable to the economic development in Anhui province.