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What does higher vocational education mean?
The full name of higher vocational education is higher vocational education, which is a form of education at the college level.

The main goal of higher vocational education is to cultivate technical talents. On the basis of completing secondary education, a group of talents with university knowledge and certain professional skills will be trained, and their knowledge will be imparted on the basis of ability and practicality.

In addition, candidates in higher vocational colleges can also take the entrance examination for junior college or general college and continue their undergraduate studies in full-time undergraduate colleges.

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In China, professional education is undertaken by higher vocational colleges, and some ordinary undergraduate colleges also offer professional courses. What is awarded is a diploma of a general college or an adult college, not a degree certificate at the college level.

College education is mainly divided into ordinary full-time colleges and non-ordinary full-time colleges. Ordinary full-time college is usually a full-time full-time study at school for students enrolled in the national unified entrance examination for ordinary colleges and universities and in higher vocational colleges. Not ordinary full-time colleges are mainly divided into correspondence courses and adult college entrance examination amateurs.