Research On Connection Of Curriculum System Between Higher And Middle Vocational Education

It is said in "Decision on strongly pushing forward the vocational education reform and development by the State Council"that it's very important to strengthen the link between middle vocational education and higher vocational education, as well as the one among vocational education, general education and continuing education ,so as to help the talents better cross different stages in their career life. In order to achieve this, as the announcement said, a systemic course should be set up to perform as the junction of middle vocational education and higher vocational education while more middle vocational education graduates should join high schools, especially high vocational education institutes to perform continuing study. However, all over these years, vocational education for accounting in China is still bound up to disciplinary courses, mostly being evidenced by the overlapped teaching materials, which will surely jeopardized its development and result to the inefficiency of the whole educational system.So, how to strengthen the link between middle vocational education and higher vocational education? This is what I want to tell in this article based on studies of vocational education conducted by both domestic and overseas institutions together with the trend of current vocational education for accounting and the development of the society and economy. By doing so, it's hopeful to find out the best way to solve this problem.This article is divided into five parts. First of all, I will give out definitions of middle vocational education and higher vocational education ,and tell what does the link between them mean from the view of the its necessity and sources of my theory both practically and theoretically by introducing the mode of links between the two stages of vocational education practiced in developed countries and the researches conducted in China so as to provide the practical and theoretical ground for this article. Secondly, I will take vocational education of these two stages for accounting as an example to find out the reason led to the poor performance in China which was characterized by disciplinarity-oriented, lack of standards in professional courses and poor performance in teaching students according to their aptitudes. Thirdly, considered the characters of accounting major, I will raise my own assumption of ideal link between middle vocational education and higher vocational education on the ground of successes made by domestic and overseas institutions on this topic. In my assumption, it should be ability-oriented, market-led, levels-set and practical to set up ideal accounting courses and tutor the students to meet the market's requirements. This course will be elaborated from three aspects. They are the structure of the course, the setting of the course and the content of the course. For structure, it's advised to take the mode of "forum-module", which can better satisfy vocational education students of different levels. Score hours rather than marks should be adopted. And school hours of different courses should be divided reasonably so as to carry out the theories practically. For setting of courses, it's wise to take working ability as the standard to conduct middle vocational education while adopt practical methods to teach high vocational education students in accordance with their aptitudes. When it comes to the content of the courses, it should be flexible, compositive and creative. Different skills should be emphasized particularly on their respective levels. And likely, different modes of links between these two stages of vocational education should be adopted depending on the respective contents of courses. Fourthly, cooperation of the whole society is needed to implement this ideal mode of vocational education. More efforts should be made on the improvement of teaching materials, qualification verification services, score hours system and the qualification of teachers. And finally comes to the conclusion and thingking.