65438-0999 The Ministry of Education decided to hold higher vocational education in some provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) on a trial basis according to the new management mode and operation mechanism. In order to distinguish it from the higher vocational colleges before 1998, this higher vocational college established according to the new management mode and operation mechanism is called "new higher vocational college".

The main contents of "new higher vocational education" are: 1, higher education at the specialist level, and its enrollment plan is a guiding plan; 2. In teaching management, it is required to adjust the major setting and training objectives according to social needs, determine the teaching plan and curriculum setting according to the professional ability requirements of professional post groups, emphasize both theoretical teaching and practice, and enable graduates to have the ability to work directly; 3. Education expenses are mainly paid by students, supplemented by financial subsidies; 4. When students graduate, the school issues a diploma recognized by the state, and does not use the employment registration card for graduates of ordinary colleges and universities across the country uniformly printed by the Ministry of Education, and implements an employment system that does not include distribution and independent employment; 5, according to the relevant professional skills appraisal standards of labor and social security departments, the implementation of vocational skills appraisal for students, so that students can obtain corresponding academic certificates and vocational qualification certificates at the same time when they graduate.

The purpose of holding a new higher vocational school is: 1. Promote China's higher education to better meet the needs of economic construction and social development, speed up the training of practical and skilled professionals for grass-roots, production, service and management front-line professional positions, and ease the pressure on new high school graduates to enter higher schools; 2. Actively explore various forms, ways and mechanisms to develop higher vocational education; 3. Further expand the decision-making power and overall planning power of provincial governments in the development of higher education.