Development Of Vocational Education Research Articles

Development Pathways for Vocational Education and Training (VET) in China

In recent years, although the state has increased support for vocational education from multiple aspects, China's vocational education development still faces some challenges. This research aims to explore the significance of VET and the development pathway for VET in an employment-oriented context. This paper argues that it is necessary to adhere to the development direction of "employment and entrepreneurship" and provide innovative development and operation mechanisms for vocational education products or services in the field of vocational education. Its essence is the deep integration of industry and education, school-enterprise cooperation, and an innovative measure to cultivate qualified technical and skilled talents to meet the talent needs of the labor market. This paper emphasizes that to better adapt to the pressures brought about by changes in the employment environment, it is necessary to accelerate the construction of a high-quality vocational education system, effectively improve the quality of vocational education and training, and ensure that vocational education closely aligns with the economic and social development needs and seamlessly meets the actual employment standards of industries and enterprises.

Student’s Information Literacy Cultivation Approaches in Higher Technical and Vocational Education in China: A Review

Higher technical and vocational education is based on the logic of technology application and skill training, highlighting the application and implementation of professional technology and the actual process of the skills. Essential goals for the talent development of higher technical and vocational education in China now include fostering the information literacy of these students and preparing them to live and learn in an information-based society. To investigate the strategies for cultivating students’ information literacy in higher technical and vocational education context, 23 publications between 2014-2023 were reviewed by a qualitative systematic literature review. To drive the results, an inductive analytical method was employed. Analysis of results yielded four primary approaches to students’ information literacy cultivation: (1) integrating information literacy into professional courses, (2) enhancing the utilisation of information resources, (3) establishing a proper information literacy evaluation system, and (4) integrating information literacy into employment perspective. Articles increased significantly in the past five years, which showed the importance of information literacy education in vocational education in China to fulfil the rising demands of society in the Information Age.

EXPLORING TRENDS IN PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: A FOCUS ON THE BALTIC COUNTRIES

This scientific article delves into the dynamic landscape of vocational education in the Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It focuses on the evolving trends in public-private partnerships (PPPs) within this sector. Vocational education serves as a crucial link between academic learning and industry demands, equipping individuals with the specialized skills needed for the workforce. In recent years, significant strides have been made in enhancing vocational education in the Baltic region through collaborative efforts between government bodies, educational institutions and private enterprises. This article particularly emphasizes emerging trends in PPPs, including joint initiatives, government incentives, digitalization and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Joint initiatives between educational institutions and industry stakeholders are becoming increasingly prevalent, fostering collaboration in curriculum development, internship programmes and skills training tailored to meet industry needs. Government incentives, such as financial support and tax benefits, are encouraging private sector involvement in vocational education, thereby enriching the quality and accessibility of educational offerings. Moreover, digitalization is reshaping vocational education, with PPPs leveraging technology to deliver innovative learning experiences. E-learning platforms, virtual reality simulations and online collaboration tools are being integrated into vocational education curricula, enhancing the effectiveness and relevance of training programmes. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges, accelerating the adoption of online learning and remote delivery models. By analyzing these trends, the article aims to provide insights into the dynamics of vocational education development and the role of collaboration between public and private sectors in shaping the future of the workforce in the Baltic countries.

Investigating The Determinants of Vocational Education and Economic Development in Digital Age: A Review from 2018 - 2023

Vocational education plays a crucial role in the development of individuals by providing them with the most essential skills. The crucial importance of vocational education necessitates support from various elements, including government policy and the educational aspect within the vocational school. However, higher vocational education and economic development in the digital age face several challenges, stemming from enrollment trends, policy interventions, labor market dynamics, and demographic shifts. This study provides a systematic review using PRISMA guidelines for addressing higher vocational education enrollment, policy interventions, labor market trends, and demographic factors that affect the integration of vocational education and economic development in the digital age. The initial phase involves the identification of a suitable source database, which may include prominent platforms such as Scopus, Google Scholar, or IEEE Xplore The findings of the study reveal that most students enrolling in higher vocational education recommend using hands-on training and practical skills that have been directly applicable to my current job in the IT industry. The program needs to focus on industry-relevant skills for the demands of the labor market. We also identifying and filling these research gaps could lead to a more comprehensive and critical understanding of vocational education. Vocational education programs can adapt to labor market trends by incorporating emerging technologies into their curricula, collaborating with industry experts to identify skill gaps, and offering continuing education courses to keep graduates up to date with the latest advancements. Finally, this study provides some recommendations for further studies.

Research on the Current Situation of Student Management and Countermeasures in Chinese Higher Vocational Colleges and Universities

As an important part of China's higher education system, student management in higher vocational colleges and universities is of great significance for cultivating high-quality technical and skilled talents. Through an in-depth analysis of the current situation of student management in China's higher vocational colleges and universities, this paper reveals the problems that exist in the current management process, including the insufficiency of policies and regulations, the deficiencies in management organisational structure and staffing, the lack of adaptability of the student management methods, and the insufficiency of student participation. Aiming at these problems, this paper puts forward corresponding countermeasures and suggestions, such as improving policies and regulations, optimising management organisational structure and staffing, innovating student management methods and improving student participation. Through the research of this paper, it aims to provide useful reference for student management in China's higher vocational colleges and universities and promote the development of higher vocational education.

Exploring the Development of Vocational Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has caused all industries worldwide to experience unprecedented changes. Vocational education, an educational field that cultivates technical and skilled talents for society, is also facing great opportunities and challenges in the wave of AI. Exploring the development path of vocational education in the context of artificial intelligence so that it can better adapt to the future needs of society has become an urgent problem in the field of education. This paper briefly analyses the impact of artificial intelligence on vocational education, explores the challenges of vocational education in the context of artificial intelligence, and puts forward the development path of vocational education in the context of artificial intelligence for reference.

РЕАЛІЇ ТА НАПРЯМИ ПОКРАЩАННЯ ІНВЕСТИЦІЙ У РОЗВИТОК ПРОФЕСІЙНО-ТЕХНІЧНОЇ ОСВІТИ В КИТАЇ

Introduction. Over the past ten years, the Chinese government has attached great importance to the development of vocational education, improving its quality and optimizing its structure. Problem Statement. Realities and directions for improving investment in the development of vocational education in China. The purpose is to determine the directions of formation of an effective system of financing vocational education in China. Methods. The general scientific and special methods were used: analysis and synthesis, graphic, comparison, theoretical generalization, abstract and logical. Results. Attention is focused on the analysis of the current system of financing vocational education in China and the substantiation of proposals for optimizing its structure and forms, the need to increase non-fiscal sources of investment in its development. The authors analyze the current system of vocational education with Chinese specifics, consisting of secondary vocational education, higher vocational education and vocational education. The authors compare the financing of vocational and other forms of education, as well as the dynamics of changes in state funding per student. The structure of non-fiscal sources of funding for vocational education is analyzed. The uneven distribution of financial allocations of local authorities for vocational education in China is revealed. The effectiveness of measures to manage a special fund to improve the quality of modern vocational education is evaluated. Conclusions. Thus, at the present stage, the Chinese government seeks to build a modern system of vocational education with Chinese characteristics. The result-oriented approach to financing vocational education has been noted. At the same time, the structure of investment in its development is not effective enough. There is also a significant regional stratification of education costs. The author substantiates the need to deepen the interaction of industrial and educational policies in their unity. Transfer payments should be made on the basis of transparency and openness. The revenue structure of various educational funds should be improved.

Analysis of the Connotation and Practice of the Integration of Production and Education under the Background of Intelligent Manufacturing

Intelligent manufacturing is the focus and trend of China’s industrial development. In the context of intelligent manufacturing, the amalgamation of industry and education is the only way of vocational education. The integration of production, education and research is no longer a superficial and single school—enterprise cooperation. It’s a pattern, a thought and an idea. It is only through the whole process of the reform and development of vocational education that the concept of the integration of industry and education can be carried out. In order to provide more and better professional talents for the fast iterative intelligent manufacturing industry, the essence of the integration of industry and education is under the background of intelligent manufacturing. Relying on the new concept and model of vocational education integration, vocational school students can realize individual freedom and all-round development, and everyone has the opportunity to be brilliant in life.

Conditions for successful professionalisation of students within the federal project “Professionalitet”

The main ideas of the Federal Project “Professionalitet”, launched in 2022, are strategic vectors for the development of vocational education in the context of modern challenges, a new sectoral approach to targeted training of in-demand professionals for priority sectors of the economy. The solution to this strategically important task is possible only on the basis of close real interaction between professional educational organisations of secondary vocational education and training with employers and industrial partners, whose orders for personnel training are carried out by colleges and technical schools. The problem of the research is the need to answer the question: how to achieve successful professional development of mid-level specialists in order to meet the needs of industry labour markets and specific enterprises in the region. The purpose of the article is to summarise the experience of implementing the federal project “Professionalitet” for training a new specialist in one of the largest clusters of the Sverdlovsk region – the metallurgical cluster based on the Pervouralsk Metallurgical College. During the study, an analysis of domestic and foreign scientific literature on the issue, content analysis, generalisation and systematisation of the data obtained were used; pedagogical experience has been studied and generalised and prospects for further implementation of the federal project “Professionalitet” have been determined. The results of the study can be used by managers of professional educational organisations in order to improve the process of training highly qualified specialists for specific industrial sectors.

National Education Policy 2020: Paradigm Shift in Vocational Education for Aatmanirbhar Bharat

Vocational education is inevitable to inculcate and cultivate relevant skills in learners for individual and societal benefits. This is a sincere attempt to help an individual enhance self-confidence to contribute to the sustainable development of the nation. Education aims to develop skills among learners. In the 21st century, the need for skill development among learners is perspicuous but change has taken place in types of skills. At present, the emphasis is on the knowledge economy. Therefore, the type of vocational education and skill development has also changed. Vocational education paves the way to develop skills and produce skilled learners who can contribute significantly to a nation being self-reliant. The NEP 2020 has advocated for vocational education to be introduced from class sixth after keeping the requirements of the current century in view and with a vision to make Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India). The NEP 2020 has also emphasised experiential learning for all-rounded development of learners. Vocational education can create a positive environment for the learners to boost skills required for individual growth leading to a self-reliant India. In this paper, the researchers have made a solemn effort to enumerate the relevance of vocational education and skill development in NEP 2020 for producing a skilled workforce to build a knowledge-based economy in India and laying the foundation for Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India).

Learning outcome evaluation in manual assembly

Mass customization and shorter product life cycles are causing ever more variants in production, especially in manual assembly. At the same time, more diverse personnel structures are emerging due to demographic change and labor shortages. This is causing different challenges to production managers, e.g., competence gaps. To meet these challenges, learning in manual assembly becomes increasingly important. The design of the learning process can only be improved by checking whether the processes fulfill their purpose. Various learning evaluation measures are described in general vocational education and competence development, but it is hard to select the right one for the learning process. This paper shows a procedure, how learning evaluation measures can be selected, and how they can measure learning progress. For this, a test person study was conducted to compare different learning evaluation measures and show their usability and advantages in manual assembly. The results support making learning in assembly easier to apply and controllable. In the long term, feeding back the results improves the learning process design.

Research on the Construction of Digital Development Model for Higher Vocational Education and Influencing Factors

Nowadays digital transformation has become the focus of vocational education reform and development. Starting from the background of the digitalization situation in higher vocational education and the analysis of the "1+5" system connotation elements, the paper attempts to construct an evaluation model for the digitalization development of higher vocational education based on research on the current situation and interpretation of the digitalization development process of several vocational colleges in the Yangtze River Delta region. It includes dimensions such as the connotation and characteristics of digital transformation, the meaning and direction of digital transformation, digital technology and application, digital strategies and paths, etc. It explores the main influencing factors of the digitalization development of higher vocational education from five dimensions: educational and teaching concepts, teaching resource construction, intelligent evaluation technology, intelligent teaching environment, and digital service capabilities. It proposes strategies to promote the digitalization development of higher vocational education, such as reshaping digital concepts, strengthening hardware infrastructure construction, and upgrading digital software.

The Enlightenment of Tao Xingzhi's “Generative Doctrine” on the Curriculum Reform of Five-year Higher Vocational Education

The idea of “Generative Doctrine” is an important component of Tao Xingzhi's vocational education theory. Vocational education is aimed at cultivating talents with vocational skills and practical abilities under the guidance of profit-oriented education, so as to meet the needs of life and serve the social and economic development. With the development of society, China's five-year higher vocational education has also achieved significant progress, which is reflected in the continuous expansion of its scale and the continuous improvement of its quality. However, there are also many problems existing. By re-recognizing and re-studying Tao Xingzhi's profit-oriented vocational education theory, further exploring curriculum reform will have extremely important guiding significance for the development of five-year higher vocational education.

Exploring the Integration Pathways of Student Management and High-quality Talent Cultivation in Vocational Colleges

This study aims to explore effective integration pathways between student management and high-quality talent cultivation in vocational colleges. Through a literature review and theoretical analysis, the research first identifies the core elements of student management in vocational colleges, including student autonomy, learning motivation, and career planning. It discusses the key indicators of high-quality talent cultivation, such as skill mastery, innovation capacity, and career adaptability. Building on this foundation, the study delves into the intrinsic connections between student management and talent cultivation, proposing a series of theoretical models and strategies designed to enhance the quality of talent cultivation by optimizing student management processes. During the research, a comprehensive analytical framework was constructed using systems theory and educational management theory to guide the practices of vocational colleges in student management and talent cultivation. The conclusion suggests that vocational colleges should achieve the organic integration of student management and high-quality talent cultivation by establishing flexible management mechanisms, strengthening career guidance and practical teaching, and enhancing collaboration with enterprises. These strategies contribute to enhancing students' overall qualities and meet the societal demand for highly skilled talents, promoting the sustainable development of vocational education.

The Development and Innovation of Vocational Education from the Perspective of Lifelong Education

With the continuous advancement of technological innovation, lifelong education has become a key factor in personal career development and social progress. As an important part of the lifelong education system, the development and innovation of vocational education are of great significance to meet the needs of the labor market and promote social equity and economic growth. This article analyzes the intrinsic relationship between the concept of lifelong education and vocational education, focusing on analyzing the development and innovation strategies of vocational education from the perspective of lifelong education.

基于职业核心素养的技师学院机电一体化专业课程改革策略研究

With the reform and development of modern vocational education, vocational core quality has become the key element of the training of skilled and applied talents, which not only directly affects the employment development of students, but also is closely related to the education level of vocational colleges. Therefore, in the teaching of mechatronics in technician college, teachers should carry out curriculum optimization and teaching reform around the professional core quality, so as to focus on cultivating students’ comprehensive quality such as vocational skills, knowledge base, professional ethics and innovative spirit, so as to lay a solid foundation for students’ sustainable development. In this context, this paper carries out research, through analyzing the characteristics of mechatronics major development in technician school under the guidance of vocational core accomplishment, and then puts forward the strategy of mechatronics major curriculum reform in technician college based on vocational core accomplishment.

Analysis of the Reorientation of the National Vocational Training Development Program

ILO found that only 59% of graduates from BLK at the level of UPTD and UPTP - which transformed into BPVP, could be absorbed by industries in 2022 due to the mismatch of competencies with the needs of the labor market. Therefore, the reorientation of the National Vocational Training Development Program is urgently needed to create skilled and competent human resources (HR) in line with the needs of industries and the labor markets. The purpose of this study is, to analyze the issues arising in the management of HR in vocational training institutions in creating skilled and competent HR, along the absorption of BLK graduates into companies/industries. This study uses a descriptive analysis method aimed at analyzing the management of HR in BLK. The results of the study indicate that BLK management has not yet adhered to standardized norms, the level of absorption of BLK graduates into companies/industries is still low, and there is a mismatch between the competencies of BLK graduates and the labor market. The implications of the study results for the Ministry of Manpower are: (1) refocusing training targets based on training needs analysis and national development priorities; (2) standardizing training programs considering the typology of BLK and the distribution of vocational training institutions; (3) identifying potential training needs and revitalizing training resources in vocational training institutions; (4) mainstreaming vocational training and apprenticeships by developing funding patterns and partnership programs between the government and the business/industrial sector, also the central and regional governments.

Using Reinforcement Learning Algorithms to Optimize Practical Skills Development in Higher Vocational and Technical Education

Optimizing practical skills development in higher vocational and technical education involves a multifaceted approach. Firstly, curriculum design should integrate hands-on learning experiences, industry-relevant projects, and internships to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and real-world application. Secondly, institutions should invest in state-of-the-art facilities, equipment, and technology to provide students with a simulated work environment conducive to skill mastery. This paper, explored the integration of reinforcement learning algorithms within the Seahorse Optimization Probability Education (SHOPE) framework to optimize practical skills development in higher vocational and technical education. Through extensive experimentation and analysis, we investigate the effectiveness of various reinforcement learning algorithms in enhancing vocational teaching strategies, skill assessment processes, and classification tasks within educational contexts. Our findings highlight the capability of SHOPE to iteratively refine teaching methodologies, leading to significant improvements in student skill acquisition, success rates, and classification accuracy over multiple epochs. With the adaptive teaching strategies, and optimized vocational education programs tailored to individual student needs. For instance, our results demonstrate an average skill improvement ranging from 35% to 65% across different reinforcement learning algorithms. Moreover, success rates for mastering targeted skills reach levels between 75% and 92%.

Research on the Construction of Campus Football Clubs in Higher Vocational Colleges

With the continuous development of vocational education in our country, national leaders have issued important speeches and instructions one after another. President Xi Jinping emphasized in the National Vocational Education Work Conference in June 2018: "Accelerate the development of vocational education, so that everyone has the opportunity to have a brilliant life." , field inspection method, questionnaire survey method and interview method, based on the basic situation of vocational and technical colleges, analyzes the development status and existing problems of football clubs in higher vocational colleges in Yunnan Province, in order to promote campus football in higher vocational colleges in Yunnan Province. The club provides the necessary basis.

Design and Development of Small Modular Courses for “Education-Training Integration” in Vocational Colleges: A Case Study

Vocational education plays a vital role in the development of skilled technical professionals and the advancement of the economy. However, the emphasis on campus education often neglects the importance of external training, hindering the overall development of vocational education. This study aims to address this issue by exploring the design and development of small modular courses that integrate training and education in vocational colleges, focusing on the mechanics course as a case study. The research methods employed in this study include an in-depth analysis of enterprise training needs, the development of digital teaching resources utilizing the finite element method (FEM), and the implementation of a small modular course integrating education and training. The data analysis reveals positive outcomes in terms of learners’ comprehension and engagement with complex mechanics formulas through the use of stress nephograms and other digital resources. This research provides a new perspective on curriculum design and offers insights into the integration of training and education in vocational colleges. The findings underscore the significance of incorporating innovative teaching methodologies and digital resources in enhancing the quality and relevance of vocational education, ultimately contributing to the cultivation of skilled professionals and the growth of the vocational education sector.