Vocational and technical education, vol. 2, no. 2, July 2011

This issue contains the following sections and articles: (1) Cover topic: Skills competition: prelude to a new era; (2) Region - Xinxiang's new management system; (3) Policy - Build a teacher training system for vocational education with Chinese characteristics; Vocational teacher education entering into the 'free' age; Try to achieve harmonious development of secondary and higher vocational education; (4) Observation - Reform of rural vocational education: pilot provinces' experiences and perplexities; Vocational education in the development zone: between tradition and modernization; (5) Research - School-enterprise cooperation in China's vocational education and training; Experiences of industries and enterprises participating in vocational education in China; (6) Investigation - The relationship between society and public higher vocational schools: a survey report; Exploiting local resources for rural vocational education; and (7) Information - Policy; Practice; Communication; Statistics. Show less