General education refers to school education with continuing education as the goal and basic scientific knowledge as the main teaching content, including preschool education, primary education, general secondary education and general higher education. The institutions that implement general education in China are mainly primary and secondary schools.

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General education is divided into preschool education stage, compulsory education stage, high school education stage and higher education stage. Among them, in the high school education stage, including secondary vocational and technical education and secondary professional education. The higher education stage includes general full-time junior college, undergraduate and postgraduate education; And part-time higher education such as adult self-study, night university, correspondence, on-the-job postgraduate education.

The difference between general education and vocational education

1, the goal and purpose of culture are different.

Vocational education aims at directly cultivating and improving workers' vocational skills, and aims to make trainees become specialized talents in a certain labor field, which is highly targeted and professional; General education aims at improving the basic cultural level of the educated, which is basic and universal, and their training objectives are different.

2. Different educational means and methods.

Vocational education pays attention to the combination of education and time, and will carry out education according to the requirements and conditions of workers themselves; General education, on the other hand, adopts relatively fixed conventional education, which is generally full-time education.