In China, higher vocational education includes undergraduate and junior college education levels; However, in many other countries and regions, the higher vocational education system completely includes academic education at junior college, undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels.
Higher vocational colleges also have three or six grades, and the status from high to low is: junior college, junior college, national demonstration vocational college, provincial key vocational college, general vocational college, private vocational college, adult branch school and secondary specialized school.
Characteristics of higher vocational education:
1, so that students have the necessary theoretical knowledge and scientific and cultural foundation, master the backbone technology skillfully, and pay attention to practical application.
2. Pay attention to the comprehensive application of relevant knowledge.
3. Cultivate students' ability of expression, communication and cooperation.
4. Pay attention to the study of practical knowledge and strengthen the training of vocational skills.
Higher vocational education system:
Higher vocational education and higher vocational education are both specialized subjects.
College, short for college.
The education stage of higher education in China is divided into two forms: undergraduate (undergraduate, university for short) and specialist (specialist for short). There are two main differences between them: 1, and the length of schooling: 4-5 years for undergraduate students and 2-3 years for junior college students. 2. Degree: Undergraduate students can apply for a bachelor's degree, and junior college students do not have a degree.
College includes two forms: college and higher vocational education.
There are two main forms of university education: junior college, junior college, higher vocational and technical school, vocational and technical college and vocational college. There is no essential difference between the two. The former emphasizes ability (such as normal college), while the latter emphasizes technology (such as industrial vocational and technical college). Higher vocational education and higher vocational education are both specialized subjects.
Vocational and technical college is a first-class college in Chinese universities, which belongs to the category of higher vocational colleges and ordinary colleges and universities, equivalent to ordinary colleges and universities, and gradually begins to replace ordinary colleges and universities. With higher vocational education as the main content, in the order of university admission, it is the first batch of junior college students and the second batch of junior college students, and it is also the admission institution of "three schools" (vocational high schools, secondary specialized schools and technical schools). At the same time, the teaching work of some undergraduate colleges is also arranged in the vocational and technical college of a university. Vocational and technical college is a local institution of higher learning, which exists as a preparation for local colleges and universities in places not covered by local colleges and universities, and can also be used as a supplement to local colleges and universities. Vocational and technical college is a public institution of ordinary colleges and universities, belonging to the category of universities, not adult colleges, nor technical schools.
Ordinary institutions of higher learning refer to institutions of higher learning that are approved or put on record by the national education administrative department and mainly implement ordinary higher education, which are divided into undergraduate level and junior college level. Ordinary institutions of higher learning at the undergraduate level are named XX University or XX College, such as Shandong University of Science and Technology, Shandong Jianzhu University, Shandong Institute of Economics, Shandong Jiaotong University, Ankang College, Weifang College, Yantai Nanshan College, Beijing Health Vocational College, Beijing Vocational College of Information Technology, Capital Railway Health School, Beijing Vocational College of Industry, Beijing Vocational College of Agriculture, Beijing Vocational College of Electronic Technology, etc. The names of colleges at the junior college level are XX College, XX College, XX Vocational and Technical College or XX Vocational College, such as Tianjin Biotechnology Vocational and Technical College, Shandong Medical College, Heze Medical College, Shandong College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zibo Teachers College, Jinan Railway Vocational and Technical College, Shandong Vocational College of Science and Technology and Ankang Vocational and Technical College.
Years of study:
The basic study period of higher vocational education majors is two to three years, management majors are generally two years, engineering majors are generally three years, and the part-time study period is appropriately extended. The basic learning cycle of higher vocational education aimed at recruiting junior high school graduates is 5 years.