A Research On The Policy Of Migrant Workers' Children Studying In Urban High School

The problem of migrant workers children education is specific, which occurs in the processof China urbanization. Compared with the problem in compulsory education for migrantworkers children, the problem in post-compulsory education is even more complex. TheChinese government and academics attach great importance to this difficult problem in recentyears. With the guidance of national policy, the local governments issued collegematriculation policies for migrant children in2012, which brings hope for migrant workerschildren to enter the urban high school, but the legitimacy and rationality of these policieshave been disputed. Under this circumstance, people wonder what the actual requirements arefor migrant workers children to get further education after compulsory education. Whether theexisting college matriculation policies for migrant children after compulsory education meetthe expectations of migrant workers children or not? What kinds of factors that may restrictmigrant workers children to achieve further education after compulsory education? How canwe properly meet the desires by migrant workers children about getting further educationafter compulsory education?This study is based on the problems above, using the methods of literature research andinvestigation research, and comprehensively applying the theory of policy and management.With the actual circumstance of migrant workers children get further education aftercompulsory education, the paper analyzes the differences between the current policies and therequirements of migrant workers children after compulsory education. The author exploresthe factors in current policies which restrict migrant workers children entering urban highschool, and provides several feasible ways about improving and perfecting the existingpolicies so as to solve the post-compulsory education problem of migrant workers children.The paper is divided into four parts:The first part is introduction. This part mainly introduces the research origin,significance, methods etc., generalizes and evaluates the existing related researches, discussesthe design of questionnaire, interview and sample selection in detail. This part also defines thecore concepts as migrant workers children and the policies for migrant workers children studying inurban high school.The second part includes the first two chapters. This part describes the evolution andmain contents of migrant workers children education policies, states research results on thedesires of getting further education after compulsory education, the influencing factors andthe actual entrance methods for migrant workers children. The third part is the third chapter. This part mainly uses the policy theory to analyze thefactors which influence migrant workers children entering urban high school. The lack ofexisting post-compulsory education policy caused that the opportunity of migrant workerschildren entering urban high school has been deprived, and the lack of compulsory educationpolicy and the education grants policy caused the shortage of the academic ability andeconomic capacity to study in urban high school for migrant workers children.The fourth part includes the fourth and the fifth chapter. This part use theories ofeducation right, education equity, stakeholder, capabilities and system, concerning theweaknesses of current policies for migrant workers children studying in high school, to provide thevalue, principle, content of the policy, then proposes some security measures to promote theeffectiveness of the policy through providing the effective strategy to solve the problem ofmigrant workers children entering urban high school.