The Research Of Higher Vocational And Technical Education In Singapore

With the arrival of the information age, Science and Technology develope rapidly, Economic and Social Development need more and more talent people who have advanced technology and management skills. In today Science and Technology develop very rapidly, talented person is the first productive forces. Therefore, The Higher Vocational and Technical Education which train people who have advanced technology and management skills for country becomes an important pillar to develop Economy for each country and also becomes the focus of Education Research. The Higher Vocational and Technical Education in our country begins with the build of the Vocational University in1980.Now it has a long history of more than thirty years. It has acquired proud achievement after its gradually exploration and improvement for more than thirty years. It has trained a large number of talent people who have advanced technology and management skills for the Construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics. However, there are also some problems and shortages of Higher Vocational and Technical Education in china because of the short of its theoretical research for a long time. For example Teachers Construction of Higher Vocational and Technical Education is imperfect, Quality assurance of Higher Vocational and Technical Education is not in place, internationalization degree of Higher Vocational and Technical Education is not high and so on. Learning and introduction of foreign advanced development experience is extremely necessary when our Higher Vocational and Technical Education is reforming.Singapore is located in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), it is geographically close with China and have significant cultural and custom similarities. Higher Vocational and Technical Education in Singapore had formed a complete system for forty year’s development. It was not only played an important role in its economic grow-up but also accumulate experience and characteristics that fit for their own country. It has a positive effect on guiding our Higher Vocational and Technical Education’s development.This paper studies for the Higher Vocational and Technical Education in Singapore. The research uses combined methodologies, past and logic, theoretical and practical, the research divided into five parts. The first part mainly introduce why choose this topic, the purpose and the meaning of the research, key concepts and research status at home and abroad and the research methods. The second part is the historical review of Higher Vocational and Technical Education development in Singapore. The Higher Vocational and Technical Education of Singapore developed as its Vocational Education, mainly go through two stages, the colonial period and independence period. The rise of Higher Vocational and Technical Education had improved the overall quality of Singapore’s workforce, played an important role in economic development. The third part mainly analyzes the recent situations of the Higher Vocational and Technical Education in Singapore. Analyzing its system, management system, recruiting students, teacher development, teaching philosophy and teaching models. Singapore had built "Overpass" System, implementing the management system of government regulation, college leading. It has regular way to recruit students and emphasizes on professional development of teachers. Students are the center of its teaching philosophy. It has many teaching models. The special model is "Teaching Factory". The fourth part mainly summarizes the characteristics of the Higher Vocational and Technical Education in Singapore. It has many features, for example be good at learning from other countries, owning wonderful system, taking the economy as its center, having good teachers, servicing the students etc. The fifth part summarize the revelation that the Higher Vocational and Technical Education in Singapore give us, there are six advices can help us improve our Higher Vocational and Technical Education. The first is how to learn from other countries,the second one is to build a wonderful system of Higher Vocational and Technical Education, the third one is to make Higher Vocational and Technical Education service the economic, the fourth is to own good teachers,the last one is to make the students as the teaching center.