Vocational high school is a vocational education school in China. Vocational high schools focus on training intermediate technical personnel and managers, intermediate technical workers and employees. The requirement for students is to have technical theoretical knowledge, professional knowledge and operational skills that can directly engage in a certain occupation (type of work); Cultural courses related to this major need to have the level equivalent to that of ordinary high schools.

Object and academic system

Full-time vocational high school education mainly recruits junior high school graduates or people with equivalent academic qualifications. The academic system lasts for 3 years, and a vocational high school diploma will be issued after graduation. After taking the college entrance examination, students can choose their own schools in higher vocational colleges according to their grades.

Training objectives

Vocational high schools cultivate high-quality workers and skilled personnel who meet the requirements of China's socialist modernization, develop morally, intellectually, physically and aesthetically, have comprehensive professional ability and work in the front line of production and service. Have basic scientific and cultural literacy, continuous learning ability and innovative spirit; Have good professional ethics, master the necessary basic cultural knowledge, professional knowledge and relatively skilled professional skills, and have strong employability and certain entrepreneurial ability.

Learning course

Vocational high schools are mainly oriented to professional and technical high schools. In vocational high schools, we should not only learn the basic courses of ordinary high schools (including: Chinese, mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, politics, history, sports, public art, information technology), but also learn professional knowledge (including: kindergarten teachers, planting, breeding, electromechanical, electrical and electronic, auto repair, computer, architecture, etc.). ) It should be studied.

The difference with gaopu

The difference between vocational high schools and ordinary high schools is that vocational high schools train laborers and employees with medium professional ability. Vocational high schools are divided into various types of work, and ordinary high schools are not divided into professional types of work. Vocational high schools require both culture and vocational skills, while ordinary high schools require culture to be important.