What is a vocational and technical college?
Vocational and technical college is a type of ordinary colleges and universities in China, with full-time college-level higher vocational education as the main content, and the academic system is usually three years. In the order of admission to the general college entrance examination, it is an institution attended by students from three schools (vocational high school, technical secondary school and technical school) who are admitted by single examination and single recruitment.
Vocational and technical colleges can be divided into independent colleges and non-independent colleges. Non-independent vocational and technical colleges are usually secondary colleges that run schools at the specialist level.
China's higher vocational education is divided into undergraduate level and junior college level. Colleges at the undergraduate level are called "XX University" or "XX College", and colleges at the junior college level are called "XX Vocational and Technical College/Vocational College" or "XX College".
management system
According to the Higher Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the spirit of relevant documents of the State Council, the state is mainly responsible for the overall planning, comprehensive coordination and macro-management of higher vocational education, formulating basic unified quality standards and management methods, preparing annual guidance plans, and conducting supervision and inspection.
Professional settings
According to the needs of regional, industrial, economic and social development and the actual needs of technical fields and professional posts (groups), the setting and adjustment of majors in higher vocational education shall be determined by the undertaking school itself and reported to the local education administrative department for the record.
Professional caliber can be wide or narrow, and wide and narrow coexist. The Ministry of Education is studying the Guide to Specialty Setting of Higher Vocational Education to guide the specialty setting of higher vocational colleges.
Form of running a school
Higher vocational education adopts the principle of running schools in various forms, mechanisms and modes. At present, the schools holding higher vocational education are: vocational and technical universities, vocational universities, vocational and technical colleges, vocational colleges, junior colleges and so on.
teaching management
Higher vocational education aims at adapting to the needs of society, and takes the cultivation of technical application ability as the main line to design students' knowledge, ability, quality structure and training scheme. Pay equal attention to theoretical teaching and practical training, and graduates have the ability to work directly.
At the same time, many schools identify students' vocational skills according to the relevant vocational skills identification standards of the labor and social security departments, so that students can obtain corresponding academic certificates and vocational qualification certificates at the same time when they graduate. The management of students in school shall be implemented with reference to the Regulations on the Administration of Student Status in Colleges and Universities.