Research on the Operation System of Demand-oriented Higher Vocational Education in South Korea——An Study on the Meister University College Program
As a demand-oriented higher vocational education program in South Korea, the Meister University College program's operation motivations consist of the economic motivation to fill the talents gap in small and medium-sized enterprises, the educational motivation to strengthen the status and role of junior colleges and the social motivation to promote the development of lifelong vocational education. The operation contents of this program includes: creating learning conditions based on the strategy of equal emphasis on human, financial, and hardware resources, building the curriculum system based on the logic of connected levels, planning learning paths based on the principle of flexible time and space, and deepening the industry-university relationship based on the mechanism of schools-enterprises-regions cooperation. At the same time, it provides law, policy, standard and organization guarantees by revising relevant laws, promulgating specific policies, formulating scientific standards, and establishing orderly network. In the future, the program will be committed to absorbing the participation of polytechnics to achieve cooperation in the competition; relaxing graduation restrictions for master students to respond to the goal of nurturing talents; adopting a mixed funding approach to balance equity and efficiency; and increasing external publicity to enhance the overall social awareness.
higher vocational educationjunior collegesdemand-orientedMeister University College program