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 th...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/656701571146993973/Progress-and-Challenges-of-Upper-Secondary-Education-in-China http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32587 |
| Summary: | 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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