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Frontiers in Educational Research, 2019, 2(4); doi: 10.25236/FER.034016.

A Brief Introduction to the Evolution of Chinese Vocational Education

Author(s)

Xifeng Liao

Corresponding Author:
Xifeng Liao
Affiliation(s)

Department of Economic and Business Administration, Hunan College of Information, Changsha, 41022, China

Abstract

Three-year vocational colleges are the main servers in the tertiary vocational education of China. During the short history of development, they have been borrowing and reforming the philosophies they introduced from German, America and some other countries to serve the local industry. By introducing the evolution history, this paper explicitly shows the layout  of the vocational education in China.

Keywords

vocational colleges, philosophy, student, industry

Cite This Paper

Xifeng Liao. A Brief Introduction to the Evolution of Chinese Vocational Education. Frontiers in Educational Research (2019) Vol. 2 Issue 4: 44-50. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.034016.

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