High-Quality Development Path of Guangdong Vocational Undergraduate Education: A Typological Education Perspective

Liu Xinglin

doi:10.64649/yh.eg.issn3078-4794.20260306

High-Quality Development Path of Guangdong Vocational Undergraduate Education: A Typological Education Perspective

期刊: 《Educational Guide》 DOI:10.64649/yh.eg.issn3078-4794.20260306 全文阅读返回期刊

Liu Xinglin

School of Economics, Shenzhen Polytechnic University, Shenzhen 518055, China.

摘要

Vocational undergraduate education stands as a standalone category in the vocational education ecosystem. It functions as a key platform that strengthens the modern vocational education framework, cultivates top-tier technical talent, and advances the transformation of local industries. Guangdong’s pilot rollout of vocational undergraduate programs has yielded tangible progress over recent years. However, local higher vocational undergraduate universities are trapped in two dilemmas. Schools either mimic the operational logic of conventional four-year universities or remain locked into outdated junior-college vocational cultivation. This work grounds its analysis in the core tenets of typological education theory while weaving together Guangdong’s provincial education strategy and the industrial cluster programme. The analysis sets out four core evaluative dimensions covering professional alignment, robust theoretical foundation, innovative potential, and cross-stakeholder collaborative governance. The paper unpacks the challenges of Guangdong’s vocational undergraduate sector and traces their main drivers. The insights of this paper deliver actionable policy and management adjustments that local vocational undergraduate universities can adopt to lift their operational quality.

关键词

vocational undergraduate education; typological education theory; professional alignment; innovative potential

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