浅议我国高职教育面临的形势与发展思路

教育与经济及国计民生息息相关。在当今经济全球化时代，党的十七大提出要大力发展职业教育培训，实施扩大就业发展战略。我国高职教育面临着前所未有的机遇和挑战。机遇即市场活力和优势，挑战即工业结构急需调整、人才需求强烈；高职教育的发展思路；应积极面对市场经济，大力培养市场应用型技术人才，从而优化人才结构，不断促进国家经济发展和社会进步。具体建议即：高职教育要主动适应社会和市场的需要，树立科学发展观；确立高职教育市场观，实施投资多元化；建立与国际接轨的高职教育质量评价标准和职业资格证书制度；将高职教育纳入终身教育体系。

On the Situation and Development Strategy of the Higher Vocational Education

Education is closely linked to the economy and peoples＇ living. Nowadays the economic globalization is developing around the world. The 17th CPC National Congress points out that we should make our best to develop the vocational education and execute the development strategy of expanding employment. The higher vocational education of our country is facing a chance of the vigorous market and a challenge of both the urgent re-adjustment of industrial structure and the great demand for technical talents. The article suggests that the higher vocational education must adapt itself actively to the market economy and cultivate the applied technologists in order to optimize the structure of talents and push the country＇s economic development and social progress continuously. It is proposed that the higher vocational education should meet the needs of the market and society, build up the scientific concept of development, construct the concept of in- dustries and market of higher vocational education, establish the quality evaluation criteria and the vocational quality certificate institution in line with oversea education, and put the higher vocational education onto the right course of a lifelong education systerr.