What is vocational education?

Vocational education refers to an educational activity that educates the educated to have comprehensive qualities such as professional ethics, scientific culture, professional knowledge and technical skills required for engaging in a certain occupation or professional development.

Vocational education and general education are different types of education and have the same important position. They are an important part of the national education system and human resources development, and an important way to cultivate diversified talents, inherit technical skills, and promote employment and entrepreneurship.

Vocational education includes vocational school education and vocational training. Vocational school education is academic education, which is divided into secondary vocational school education and higher vocational school education. Vocational training is non-academic education, including pre-job training, apprenticeship training, on-the-job training, re-employment training, entrepreneurship training and other vocational training.

The purpose of vocational education is to cultivate applied talents, socialist workers and socialist builders with a certain cultural level and professional knowledge and skills. Compared with general education and adult education, vocational education pays more attention to the cultivation of practical skills and practical work ability.

Vocational education is the product of social development, the development of human civilization and the development of human beings. But also the product of a special period of development. Vocational education benefits from society, and society can also benefit from vocational education. Promoting social development is the proper meaning and sacred duty of vocational education.