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Background and Introspection of Higher Vocational Education Reforms in China

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Engineering Education and Management

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 111))

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There are many problems about higher vocational education reforms of china. Figure 1 shows that higher vocational education has become half of higher education, played an important role in popularization of higher education in the beginning of the twenty-first century. Figure. 2 shows that number of colleges and universities graduates was from 1790.5 thousand in 1999 to 7626.2 thousand in 2009, with increasing employment pressure. Analysis of higher vocational education reforms in china, there are major problems, such as separation of teaching and learning, lack of coordination of teaching and cultivating, and the disharmony of general characters of specialty construction and personality of student’s career development, will provide person related to engineering education reforms with important reference.

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Liu, Z. (2012). Background and Introspection of Higher Vocational Education Reforms in China. In: Zhang, L., Zhang, C. (eds) Engineering Education and Management. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 111. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24823-8_29

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