Author(s): YAN Zhi-li, SHAO Hui-ting
Pages: 5-10
Year: 2014 Issue:  19
Journal: Vocational and Technical Education
Keyword:  secondary vocational education; attraction; theory related market; weakening tendency;
Abstract: Since 2011,the attraction of Chinese secondary vocational education has been showing weakening tendency, the scale of students has been shrinking and the reduction has been increasing year by year.Based on the theory related market,the main reasons for this phenomenon are considered as:the labor market segmentation of human resources be-comes more and more serious;the functions and values of secondary vocational education are alienated from social expec-tations,and its education services are facing bidirectional substitution from high schools and social training institutions, and the public satisfaction to secondary vocational education is low.To promote its attraction,the negative effect of hu-man resource market segmentation should be reduced as far as possible,“connection between secondary vocational educa-tion and higher vocational education” and “mutual communication between general education and vocational education”should be strongly advanced,the target and the service concept should be scientifically established,the investment and fi-nancing mechanism should be built toward society,eventually improving school-running mechanism innovations of second-ary vocational education.