France the recent new trends in the reform of vocational education and teaching.doc

France the recent new trends in the reform of vocational education and teaching The French Republic has 6 100 million people, distributed in 22 provinces in mainland France and 4 overseas regions (1.8 million). In continental France. Total number of students to reach 1 500 million, the total population of about 1 / 4. Students in primary and secondary levels of about 1 211 million, of which vocational high school students have more than 720,000. General and technical high schools, 151 million, accounting for the number of senior high school students 30%; higher levels of education to students of about 2.27 million. Such a large number of students in vocational education has prompted the concern of vocational education reform and development. First, the background of vocational education reform in France Entering the new century, the French carried out a series of vocational education reform, the reform of the reasons mainly from two aspects: First, internal factors. French vocational education is accompanied by the rise of the industrialization process in France to develop. However, as the community of technology education, especially vocational education, there is a certain degree of contempt, coupled with high school triage mechanism. Leading to vocational high schools of the new students of poor quality, poor employment opportunities, low social status, and with the improvement of social and cultural level, social and employment standards go up, causing further devaluation of their Diploma in Vocational Education and employment in the new students with general education and technical education, there is a clear gap. This not only caused by the imbalance of the education system has also brought a lot of social problems, such as school violence-prone, a large number of youth unemployment. In particular, in recent years, the French working population to highlight the issue of occupational qualifications, 30% of the working population have no career diploma, each