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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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/437461554920204978/Progress-and-Challenges-of-Upper-Secondary-Education-in-China http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31574 |
| 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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