Higher vocational colleges (higher vocational colleges and junior colleges) are ordinary colleges and universities at the junior college level.
The so-called higher vocational education can be summarized in three sentences: higher education, vocational and technical education and the advanced stage of vocational and technical education. According to the Higher Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and relevant documents of the State Council, higher vocational education is managed by the provincial people's government.
Under the guidance of the national macro-policy, the provincial government determines the annual enrollment plan, enrollment methods, professional settings, charging standards and household registration management according to the actual needs of local economic and social development and the comprehensive situation of enrollment capacity and employment status;
Issue academic certificates, guide graduates' employment, determine the subsidy standard of education funds per student, and be responsible for ensuring the quality of education, standardizing the order of running schools and improving the conditions of running schools.
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Higher vocational undergraduate education is a full-time undergraduate education, and the degree is a professional bachelor. Higher vocational undergraduate and ordinary undergraduate jointly constitute the full-time undergraduate level of China's higher education system.
Taiwan Province Province in China has long had the types of higher vocational undergraduate education, and some provinces and cities in Chinese mainland have also started applied higher vocational undergraduate education. Kunming University of Science and Technology is the first institution of higher learning approved by Yunnan provincial government to recruit higher vocational undergraduates.
As a type in the development of higher education, higher vocational education has a complete system including higher vocational colleges and higher vocational undergraduate courses. It shoulders the mission of cultivating high-quality applied technical and vocational technical talents facing the first-line needs of production, construction, service and management, and plays an irreplaceable role in accelerating the process of socialist modernization in China.
With the integration of urban and rural construction, the new industrialization road, the acceleration of the construction of new socialist countryside and the increasing demand for high-skilled talents in innovative countries, in order to meet the demand for all kinds of high-skilled talents in the national economic transformation and the transformation of new economic growth mode, the "overpass" of modern vocational education is built to promote the development of modern vocational education.
According to the Higher Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and relevant documents of the State Council, higher vocational education is managed by the provincial people's government.
Under the guidance of national macro-policies, the provincial-level * * * determines the annual enrollment plan, enrollment methods, specialty settings, charging standards and household registration management, issues academic certificates, guides graduates' employment, and determines the subsidy standards for education funds per student. Based on the actual needs of local economic and social development, combined with the comprehensive situation of enrollment ability and employment situation, it also has the responsibility of ensuring the quality of education, standardizing the order of running schools and improving the conditions of running schools.
The state is mainly responsible for the overall planning, comprehensive coordination and macro-management of higher vocational education, formulating basic unified quality standards and management methods, preparing annual guidance plans, and conducting supervision and inspection.
Higher vocational education adopts the principle of running schools in various forms, mechanisms and modes. At present, the schools that hold higher vocational education are: short-term vocational universities, vocational and technical colleges, ordinary universities, independent adult universities, higher vocational education institutions (secondary colleges) established in undergraduate colleges, and private universities with higher academic qualifications.