Vocational education includes vocational school education and vocational training. Vocational school education includes various vocational and technical schools, technical schools and vocational high schools (vocational middle schools). Vocational school education is academic education, which is divided into primary, secondary and higher vocational school education. Vocational training is non-academic education, including pre-job training for workers, re-employment training for laid-off workers 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.
The significance of vocational education:
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.
The purpose of vocational education is to meet the employment needs of individuals and the objective needs of posts, so as to promote the development of social productive forces and accelerate the adjustment and transformation of national industrial structure.