在未来数十年我国的经济发展减速的过程中,提升产业结构必须有更高素质和技能的人才基础,尤其需要建立至少受过高中阶段教育的劳动力和人才储备。农村教育行动计划的调研发现,城市地区孩子进入名牌大学的可能性是农村贫困地区孩子的35倍,进入普通四年制本科大学的可能性是农村贫困地区孩子的21倍。国家的一系列教育发展政策以中等职业教育为重点;然而研究发现学生在中等职业学校学习两年后没有学到先进的技术知识,一些原本掌握的基础知识也淡忘了。这些不足都成为当前制约我国高中阶段教育(包括中等职业技术教育)发展的严重障碍。
<<The growth rate of China’s economy in the next decade will decrease steadily. To transform the economy into a more advanced and more competitive economy,it is especially important for the developing countries to establish a highly skilled labor force market,which requires the future labor forces to have at least finished the high school education. According to one of Rural Education Action Project(REAP)’s recent research,the results showed that the probability of an urban kids went to a higher reputation universities(Top 10)in the urban China is about 35 times higher than the rural kids;even just average four years university or college,urban peers are 21 times higher probability than the rural kids. The national and provincial governments had issued various development policies aiming to promote the development of vocational education and training(VET)program. Another research conducted by REAP,however,found that students did not learn more advanced high-tech knowledge,and it was even worse that many students’ basic mathematic and Chinese skills decreased eventually after two years in the VET schools. This inability to make decision leaded to a constant low enrollment rate among the VET schools,and the dropout rate was still relatively high in the rural China.
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