Comparing Higher Vocational Education: Development and Transformation: Development and Transformation

Author: Kuang Ying
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: This book studies the historical evolution of higher vocational education from the perspective of comparative education, the status of higher vocational education in various countries, the development trends of international higher vocational education, and the core issues in the current development of higher vocational education in China. This chapter mainly elaborates on the starting point, methodology, and approach of this research, and determines the typical countries for comparative study as the United States, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and China. The research themes are selected as the issues of training objectives, system, investment, enrollment system, and academic system of higher vocational education. This book can serve as a reference for academic research in vocational education, as a textbook for postgraduate students in vocational and technical education, and as a training material for various vocational education teachers and administrators.