Higher vocational education and skill formation in China: human capital, confucianism, and neoinstitutionalism

Over the past four decades, China has built the world’s largest higher vocational education (HVE) system to address a persistent shortage of high-level technical skills. Yet, despite massive policy...

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Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education
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2026-08-26
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https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2026.2702794
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Higher Education Governance and Development
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Higher vocational education and skill formation in China: human capital, confucianism, and neoinstitutionalism

Jinhui Lan, Xianghong Zeng
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Higher Education Governance and Development
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Higher vocational education and skill formation in China: human capital, confucianism, and neoinstitutionalism

Jinhui Lan, Xianghong Zeng
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Over the past four decades, China has built the world’s largest higher vocational education (HVE) system to address a persistent shortage of high-level technical skills. Yet, despite massive policy...

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