| Since the late stage of the1990s, our higher education has developed from the period of elitism education to period of popular education with its large scale of enrollment, to which the higher vocational education has made great contribution and occupied half of the total with its marvelous progress and it plays an incredible role in our economic and social development. Meanwhile, the rapid development of higher education has caused such problems eagerly to be emphasized and solved as the connotation and quality, the cost and profit, the supply and demand, the distribution of resources, the economic contribution and construction of modern vocational educational system etc. Under this historical background, study of relative problems about this project has great theoretical and realistic meanings.On bases of former study and with the help of relative theories, this paper investigates, analyzes and studies higher vocational education from the angle of economics, which benefits not only guidance of its healthy development, but also preparations for establishment and improvement of its theoretical system for economics. Starting from analysis of the background of higher vocational educational development, this paper makes statements from eight parts and tries to analyze relative problems about economics in higher vocational education more systematically and comprehensively.The first part is introduction. It analyzes the background, target and meanings of this study, introduces situation of economic study of higher vocational education home and abroad, expounds contents and ways of study and provides a brief summary on possible innovation and shortage of this study, which constitute a basic summary.The second part includes relative notions and basic theories. It identifies such notions as vocational education, higher vocational education, educational cost and profit, educational supply and demand, educational economic contributions etc, and conducts theoretical analyses and statements about educational economic theory, human capital theory, input-output theory, modern economic growth theory etc, which provides certain bases for theoretical analyses.The third part is an introduction to basic situation in our higher vocational education. It dissects from three aspects like the higher vocational educational progress of development, its situation and its problems, which is an inner dissection of higher vocational education and also foundation for economic analyses of it.The fourth part is the cost and profit analysis of higher vocational education. We perform inner dissection to it from the angle of economics. We first analyze its investment and profit from a macroscopic view, and then conduct dissection respectively on personal cost and profit and social cost and profit from a microcosmic view.The fifth part is analysis of supply, demand and distribution of resources of higher vocational education. It is an external study. We first set up a supply and demand pattern for higher vocational education and perform analysis on contradiction and adjustment of the two. Then from the aspect of educational resources distribution, we adopt empirical data to analyze distribution problems and study it strategically from the two huge camps of subject and object.The sixth part is economic contribution analysis of higher vocational education. We first expound its economic values, next through establishment of theory pattern, function mechanism analysis and data analysis, we study its short-term and long-term contribution to economic growth, then we analyze its contribution to economic development, and at last we conduct analysis on its employment effect from direct and indirect aspects with the help of empirical data.The seventh part is the experience from foreign vocational education. We emphatically study the experiences and inspirations from such developed countries as Germany, the USA, the Great Britain, Australia and Japan.The last part generalizes conclusions of this subject and puts forward six suggestions. |