Surveys And Studies On Current Situations Of Technical & Vocational Education In Xingwen County, Sichuan Province, China

Technical & vocational education plays one vital role on education itself and it is, being a trend internationally, should be emphasized and fostered in a long term. As any country as concerned, a "labor force army" of good technical and vocational qualities is undoubtedly the strong preparation strength for the modernization, and in Germany, U.S.A., Britain, Singapore, for example, develops a high leveled technical & vocational education system and in china, however, it becomes a weak chain in the whole education system and lags behind whatever in scope, quality, etc.Based on the attempts to analyze in details, the author tries to figure out real problems in domestic vocational & technical education system then presents some constructive advices for its development in a manner of surreys and researches. Through specific surreys and analysis, the author discovered that before 1998 the situation of technical & vocational education in Xingwen, Sichuan province developed well but since then gradually become much worse. Main problems are listed as follows: hardships on recruiting new members; hardships on training and proliferations of new technology; hardships on graduates' employments; hardships on financial aids; hardships on poor hardware conditions of vocational school; the settings of Technical & vocational education mayors is out of sync with market demands; peasants' unchanged views on technical & vocational education .To solves these problems, the author, through careful studies, sets forth some solution as follows:1. Government should draft and execute the beneficiary polices about technical & vocational education;2. Try to promote peasants' 'social status and change their views on technical & vocational education;3. Strengthen the financial aid to technical & vocational education and enlarge the sources of funds;4. Adjust majors according to practical situations;5. Establish a mechanism of choosing occupations after training and going work upon certain certificates;6. Improve educational quality by establishing a mechanism on competition;7. Try to adopt all workable means to solve the problem on absorbing students.In the addition, the author also presents some necessary concepts that may be helpful for the domestic technical & vocational education system: views on macro technical & vocational education; views on life-long technical & vocational education; views on global technical & vocational education; views on industrialized technical & vocational education.