What's the difference between junior college and higher vocational college?

There is no difference between junior college and higher vocational and technical college.

I. Colleges and universities

Refers to the ordinary institutions of higher learning established with the approval of the Ministry of Education to implement special education.

According to the relevant regulations of the Ministry of Education, full-time ordinary colleges and universities at the level of normal, medical and public security specialties should be standardized with the suffix of junior college, while full-time ordinary colleges and universities at the level of non-normal, non-medical and non-public security specialties should gradually be standardized with the suffix of vocational and technical colleges or higher vocational colleges.

Second, higher vocational and technical colleges

According to the relevant regulations of the Ministry of Education, from the end of last century, full-time ordinary colleges and universities with non-normal, non-medical and non-public security majors were gradually named as vocational and technical colleges, while full-time ordinary colleges and universities with normal, medical and public security majors should be named as colleges and universities.

As a unique suffix of higher vocational colleges, vocational and technical colleges are an important part of higher education in China. In response to the plan of the Ministry of Education to build a modern vocational education system, some national demonstration higher vocational colleges began to pilot undergraduate majors from 20 12. In China, higher vocational education, including undergraduate and junior college education, is an important part of higher education in China.

Extended data:

The relevant provisions of higher vocational and technical colleges have the following three points:

1, management system

According to the Higher Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the spirit of relevant documents of the State Council, the state is mainly responsible for the overall planning, comprehensive coordination and macro-management of higher vocational education, formulating basic unified quality standards and management methods, preparing annual guidance plans, and conducting supervision and inspection.

2. Length of study

The basic study period of higher vocational education majors is two to three years, management majors are generally two years, engineering majors are generally three years, and the part-time study period is appropriately extended. The basic learning cycle of higher vocational education aimed at recruiting junior high school graduates is 5 years.

3, professional settings

According to the needs of regional, industrial, economic and social development and the actual needs of technical fields and professional posts (groups), the setting and adjustment of majors in higher vocational education shall be determined by the undertaking school itself and reported to the local education administrative department for the record. Professional caliber can be wide or narrow, and wide and narrow coexist. At present, the Ministry of Education is formulating the Guide to Specialty Setting of Higher Vocational Education, which is used to guide the specialty setting of higher vocational colleges.

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