Vocational schools and technical schools are two different educational institutions. Although they are all set up to cultivate vocational skills, they are different in terms of academic system, enrollment targets, organizers and graduation certificates.

Different academic systems

Vocational school system is basically three years; The educational system of technical schools is one year, two years, three years, four years and five years.

Different enrollment targets

Vocational schools generally recruit junior high school graduates; The enrollment targets of technical schools are composed of junior high school graduates, senior high school graduates and social employment personnel.

Different organizers

Vocational schools are mostly converted from ordinary middle schools; Technical schools are run by enterprises and are in charge of the national human resources and labor and social security departments.

Graduation certification is different.

After graduation from a vocational school, the secondary specialized school graduation certificate uniformly printed by the education department will be issued. Those who pass the vocational qualification examination of the labor department can obtain the primary or intermediate vocational qualification certificate; After graduating from a technical school, vocational qualification certificates and technical school graduation certificates for junior, middle and senior workers uniformly printed by the labor department will be issued.