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XU Hui, XIE Peng-yang
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2018.06.002
Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Gaoji Jigong School, Shanghai, China; Shanghai Business School, Shanghai, China
Secondary vocational education in Shanghai continues to experiment in an attempt to find ways to solve the decline of student enrollment and adjust to rapidly changing social and economic environments. The 3 + 4 Pilot Program (three-year secondary vocational education and four-year undergraduate education) has been under experiment since 2014. It has attracted more and more academically good junior middle school graduates to secondary vocational schools with the national and local favorable policies and laws. Except the three-year’s hand-on practice, what appeals most to the junior middle school graduates is the academic transfer under the Program, a breakthrough in history of vocation education in China. However, only initiating a new program is not enough. Shanghai government should map out a long-term plan to set up promotion to increase the public awareness to change the long prevailing outdated ideology in order to add more to its appeal of the Program. There is still much work to be done before expanding the scope of the Program.
appeal, Pilot Program, student enrollment, secondary vocational schools
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