The characteristics of vocational education include:
1. Career orientation: Vocational education mainly trains students to master the skills and knowledge needed for specific occupations to meet the actual workplace needs.
2. Strong practicality: Vocational education pays more attention to students' practical operation and practical skills training, and provides students with more practical work experience.
3. Professionalism: In addition to technical knowledge and skills, vocational education also pays attention to cultivating students' professionalism and professional ethics.
4. Flexible academic system: The academic system of vocational education is relatively short, and you can usually choose short training classes, vocational secondary schools, vocational high schools or vocational colleges.
As to whether you can enter a university, the answer is that it depends on the specific situation. Vocational education and general higher education (such as undergraduate) are parallel education systems, and students can choose vocational education and continue to enter universities.
However, vocational education and undergraduate education may not be directly linked, which means that students may not be able to enter universities directly after completing vocational education. However, this does not mean that vocational education is worthless, because vocational education provides students with professional skills and career preparation, so that they have more choices and development opportunities in the workplace.
Generally speaking, vocational education and undergraduate education are not antagonistic, but each has its own emphasis. Students can choose their own educational path according to their interests, career planning and academic ability. In modern society, the importance of vocational education is gradually recognized, and many countries are increasing their support for vocational education to provide students with more choices and development opportunities.