Study On A Rural Vocational School's Rise And Fall

Vocational education is the main component of our national education, which is the important channel of promoting the development of economy and society and employment. Currently with the vigorous development of vocational education, grasping the rule of the development of rural vocational education and definitizing the experience and the lessons in this process are propitious to the healthy and sustainable development of rural vocational education.Wangdu vocational education center of Hebei Province is one of the thousands of vocational schools in China. Its process represents the entire process of the development of rural vocational education. The process of Wangdu vocational education center can be divided into three stages which are initial and prosperous stage, declined stage and transformed and developed stage. It has been changed a lot under the influence of politics, economy, conception and other aspects by the field work since more than ten years on the research of its rise and fall. These changes make it has its own typical characters such as vocational, market-oriented, independent, open, agriculture-weakened, promotional and so on. There are many factors influencing the development of the school. The main six internal factors are the transformation of government functions, the adjustment of economic structure, the lack of financial input, the inaccuracy of social conception, the change in the structure of the population, the impact of private schools. The main four external factors are the inaccurate position, the lack of qualified teachers, the poor quality of teaching and credibility, the cooperation of the industry and enterprises have not done enough. Because of too many artificial factors, there are so many problems in the process of development, such as aberrancy of the local development of economy and society, single of enrollment object, rigidification of training form, the small scale and weak efficiency. These result in hidden dangers to the healthy development of rural vocational education. Certainly, these problems do not only exist in Wangdu vocational education center but also commonly exist in the development of the whole rural vocational education.The development of rural vocational education is a long-term process. Only accurating its position, flexibly choosing the mode of running schools of the rural vocational education and definitizing the status and position of government during the development of the rural vocational education, the rural vocational education could be developed healthily and continuously.