Targeting the Mechanism——Report on the National Pilot Reform and Innovation of Vocational Education
VTE English Edition - VTE English Edition NO.3, 2011


By Staff Reporter Zhang Qiwu

In December 2010, the State Council instituted the pilot program of educational system reform, kicking off the pilot reform in national educational system including vocational education.

Half a year has passed, how is the reform work of those pilot vocational schools? How many problems faced by the reform? What is the direction that the country wants to lead the reform to?

On June 3, 2011, the Ministry of Education held a conference on National Pilot Reform and Innovation of Vocational Education in Haihe Educational Park in Tianjin. Lu Xin, the deputy Minister of Education attended the conference and stressed: to study and implement national strategy for reforming and developing vocational education from the global perspective of improving the industrial competitiveness; to study the modern vocational education system from the perspective of serving for the transformation of economic and social development mode; to define objective demand, k e y tasks and measures of the reform and innovation of the national vocational education pilots from analyzing the new and old problems restricting the development of vocational education nowadays.

This conference was a collective promotion activity held by the Ministry of Education on the pilot reform of vocational education system after announcing the pilot program of the educational system reform.

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