A Historical Comparison Of The Scale Of High School Education And Higher Education In China

The development of high school education is directly related to the training of qualified socialist constructors and successors,shouldering the duty to transfer the reliance of economic construction to scientific and technological progress and the improvement of workers' quality.Besides,the fundamental position of high school education lays the crucial role of it in realization of national strategic target.After the Sixteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed the basic popularization of high school education in 2020,up to 2015, Chinese high school' enrollment rate has reached 87%. However, the ordinary high school education in China includes: general high school education and secondary vocational education, so the high gross enrollment rate is a combination of the high school and secondary vocational education.Under the premise of the comprehensive popularization of high school education in China, the scale of the ordinary high school education and the secondary vocational education in China has reached a similar situation.Based analysis a large amount of statistics, this paper aims to study China's high school education and higher education status from a quantitative point of view. By comparing with the development scale of secondary vocational education, this paper founds out that regarding horizontal structure, the "Roughly equivalent" policy of high school education and vocational education China has aggravated the uneven distribution of educational resources among different areas and caused the policy-directed shunt of junior high school graduates. Also, regarding the longitudinal structure, a huge gap exists between the number of junior high school graduates entering senior high school and that of senior high school graduates entering college, leaving high school education as the bottleneck of junior high school education and higher education.to always stress the same proportion of high school education and secondary vocational and technical education is inappropriate, because more consideration should be given to the relationship between supply and demand in China's high education and the number of students.The popularization of high school education in China mainly relies on the development of secondary vocational education,so the scale of China's ordinary high school education has not expanded. To a large extent, the objective structure of'Roughly equivalent" is realized through artificial diversion of policy rather than selective diversion based on student wishes, which is not accord with the practical needs of present Chinese education development. Considering the needs of the majority of students and with a view to the popularization of higher education in China, the size of China's ordinary high school education should be appropriately expanded,so that the popularization of higher education can be realized as soon as possible. To optimize Chinese high school education structure, the following aspects must be emphasized: First of all, lessons must be drawn from overseas experiences to decide the proportion of ordinary high school and vocational school prudently and adjust the supply-demand relationship between ordinary high school and vocational school. In the second place, the horizontal structure of Chinese high school education must be optimized to realize the roughly equivalent of quality and quantity between ordinary high school education and vocational education and to adjust local conditions. In the last place, the longitudinal structure of Chinese high school education must be optimized to balance the supply-demand relationship of ordinary high school and to optimize the scale structure of Chinese ordinary high school and higher education.