After more than 40 years of development, higher vocational education in Hubei Province has become an important type of education system. However, many higher vocational colleges in Hubei province pay too much attention to scale expansion, the overall quality of higher vocational education is not high, at the same time, the funding of higher vocational education in Hubei Province is less, and the teachers in higher vocational colleges are in short supply. This paper establishes an economic growth model including the variables of higher vocational education quality and makes an empirical analysis using the data of Hubei province. The results show that the higher vocational education funds, human capital, population, labor productivity and industrial structure promote economic growth in Hubei province, while the ratio of students to teachers in higher vocational education and the income gap between urban and rural areas restrain economic growth. Hubei should increase the investment in higher vocational education to improve the overall benefit of higher vocational education to economic growth; Optimize the structure of teachers in higher vocational colleges and improve the training quality of technical talents; We will accelerate innovation in higher vocational education and promote the construction of high-quality higher vocational colleges with new characteristics.

Dabo Chen. An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of the Quality of Higher Vocational Education on Economic Growth in Hubei Province. Frontiers in Educational Research (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 16: 69-76. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2023.061611.

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