Progress and Challenges of Upper Secondary Education in China

Over the past decade, China’s transition rate from lower secondary education to higher secondary education has increased significantly, from 80.5 to 93.7 percent. In light of this impressive progress, the Chinese government aimed at raising the gro...

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Main Authors:	Chen, Dandan, Fu, Ning, Pan, Yilin
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	SECONDARY EDUCATION VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TRACKING LABOR SKILLS SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/437461554920204978/Progress-and-Challenges-of-Upper-Secondary-Education-in-China http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31574

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spelling	okr-10986-315742021-05-25T09:23:03Z Progress and Challenges of Upper Secondary Education in China Chen, Dandan Fu, Ning Pan, Yilin SECONDARY EDUCATION VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TRACKING LABOR SKILLS SKILLS DEVELOPMENT Over the past decade, China’s transition rate from lower secondary education to higher secondary education has increased significantly, from 80.5 to 93.7 percent. In light of this impressive progress, the Chinese government aimed at raising the gross enrollment rate in senior high schools to above 90 percent by 2020. Quality and relevance in vocational and academic high school education could be a key bottleneck in further expansion. The way tracking operates between academic and vocational streams could itself be a distortion for the sector’s further expansion. Looking ahead, reforms in upper secondary education are imperative, given increasing demand for a highly skilled labor force and China’s fast demographic change as the young population cohorts decline. The paper examines the sector’s key constraints in access, financing, tracking, and informed decisions and recommends how the quality of the general and vocational education tracks can be further improved. 2019-04-23T16:47:29Z 2019-04-23T16:47:29Z 2019-02 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/437461554920204978/Progress-and-Challenges-of-Upper-Secondary-Education-in-China http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31574 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Other Education Study Economic & Sector Work East Asia and Pacific China
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description	Over the past decade, China’s transition rate from lower secondary education to higher secondary education has increased significantly, from 80.5 to 93.7 percent. In light of this impressive progress, the Chinese government aimed at raising the gross enrollment rate in senior high schools to above 90 percent by 2020. Quality and relevance in vocational and academic high school education could be a key bottleneck in further expansion. The way tracking operates between academic and vocational streams could itself be a distortion for the sector’s further expansion. Looking ahead, reforms in upper secondary education are imperative, given increasing demand for a highly skilled labor force and China’s fast demographic change as the young population cohorts decline. The paper examines the sector’s key constraints in access, financing, tracking, and informed decisions and recommends how the quality of the general and vocational education tracks can be further improved.
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title	Progress and Challenges of Upper Secondary Education in China
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Progress and Challenges of Upper Secondary Education in China

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