Higher education refers to professional education and vocational education based on the completion of secondary education, and it is the main social activity to train senior professionals and professionals. Higher education is one of the important interrelated components in the education system.
China's population receiving higher education has reached 240 million, and the average number of years of education for newly-added laborers has reached 13.8 years. Major changes have taken place in the quality structure of the labor force, and the quality of the whole nation has been steadily improved.
Educational transformation:
Elite education:
Internationally, the elitism of higher education generally refers to the elite education stage in which the gross enrollment rate of higher education is below 15%. In 200 1 year, China's gross enrollment rate reached 1 1%, and in 2002 it reached 15%.
Mass education:
According to the data of the Ministry of Education, the gross enrollment rate of higher education in China was only 1.988 and 3.7% in 1.999. China began to expand its enrollment, with the gross enrollment rate reaching 1% and 5438+0 in 2006.
Universal education:
530 1 for all kinds of schools in China, an increase of 1, 1, 300 over the previous year; There were 282 million students in various levels of academic education, an increase of 6,606,200 over the previous year; Full-time teachers 17320300, an increase of 59 1800 over the previous year.