Progress and Challenges of Upper Secondary Education in China

Chen, Dandan ; Pan, Yilin ; Fu, Ning

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: SECONDARY EDUCATION;    VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;    TRACKING;    ENROLLMENT;    VOCATIONAL STREAM;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-9042
RP-ID  :  WPS9042

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Over the past decade, China'stransition rate from lower secondary education to highersecondary education has increased significantly, from 80.5to 93.7 percent. In light of this impressive progress, theChinese government aimed at raising the gross enrollmentrate in senior high schools to above 90 percent by 2020.Quality and relevance in vocational and academic high schooleducation could be a key bottleneck in further expansion.The way tracking operates between academic and vocationalstreams could itself be a distortion for the sector'sfurther expansion. Looking ahead, reforms in upper secondaryeducation are imperative, given increasing demand for ahighly skilled labor force and China's fast demographicchange as the young population cohorts decline. The paperexamines the sector's key constraints in access,financing, tracking, and informed decisions and recommendshow the quality of the general and vocational educationtracks can be further improved.