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From Scale to Norm to Excellence―Higher Vocational Education Policy-Making and Progress in China

Author(s)

Hua Huang, Rong Ma

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DOI:10.17265/1548-6591/2018.05.002

Affiliation(s)

Nanjing Polytechnic Institute, Jiangsu, China; Nanjing Normal University, Jiangsu, China

ABSTRACT

Great achievements and unique advantages have been made after 40 years of development of higher vocational and technical education in China. The development goes through three stages, including start-up stage to build up the vocational higher education system from nothing, expansion stage to promote scale expansion of the higher voacational education, and innovation stage to highlight the characteristics development of higher vocational education. In the third stage, three important construction programs have been implemented to push forward the development of higher vocational education in China. Through literature review, data analysis, and other research methods, it is found that the relevant policies were made in the different development stages, which have effectively led the development of higher vocational and technical education in China from scale expansion to standardized operation, to model innovation, then to improving quality and striving for excellence. That is rightly the cooperative effort of the guidance of national policies and creation of most colleges which prompt the developing trend of higher vocational and technical education in China.

KEYWORDS

scale, standardization, excellence, higher vocational education, policy-making

Cite this paper

Journal of US-China Public Administration, May 2018, Vol. 15, No. 5, 210-215

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