The branch school system is a modern school education system, which corresponds to the dual-track school system represented by western European countries and the single-track school system represented by the United States and the former Soviet Union.
The branch school system means that a country's school system is composed of a single school system in a certain stage of primary education and secondary education, and a variety of school systems that begin to differentiate in the subsequent stage (after junior high school or high school) are connected with it. The whole school system formed in this way is like a bifurcation, so this type of school system is also called bifurcation school system.
The branch school system was developed in the former Soviet Union.
In western Europe in the 18 and 19 centuries, under the influence of social, political and economic development and specific historical and cultural conditions, both academic modern schools and mass modern schools for working people's children have been fully developed at the same time, thus forming a dual-track educational system of modern education in Europe: one from top to bottom and the other from bottom to top. They are two parallel series, which are neither connected nor linked, thus depriving the children of working people studying in national education schools of their right to enter middle schools and universities. Academic system-referred to as academic system for short, refers to the system and management rules of various schools at all levels in a country, which stipulates the nature, tasks, admission conditions, study years and the relationship between them. The education system is restricted by the development level of social productive forces, science and technology, political system and ideology, population development and psychological characteristics of teenagers. From the analysis of the vertical educational system, the dual-track educational system is developing to the branch school system and the single-track system. China's current school education system, the Education Law of the People's Republic of China promulgated by 1995, includes the following levels of education: preschool education; Primary education; Secondary education; The current academic system of higher education in China is a branch academic system developed from the single-track academic system. At the beginning of the 20th century, the monorail school system in China was not like the monorail school system in America and China, but the monorail school system under the condition that modern production and modern social life were not fully developed. With the development of production and society, the demand for educated workers is more and more urgent, and the monorail school system is bound to move towards the multi-track school system. The basic direction of education system reform and development in China is to rebuild and improve the branch education system. The road now is to move towards branch education through developing vocational education after basic education, and the next step is to move towards monorail academic system through high school integration.
Legal basis:
Article 17 of the Higher Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)
The basic study period of college education is two to three years, undergraduate education is four to five years, postgraduate education is two to three years, and doctoral education is three to four years. The length of study of part-time higher education should be appropriately extended. Colleges and universities can adjust the length of study according to actual needs.