The Main Problems Higher Agriculture and Forestry Training Schools Face in the Course of Developing Higher Vocational Education and Corresponding Solutions

It is duty-bound and imperative for higher agriculture and forestry training schools to develop higher vocational education, but there exist the following main problems in it: first, people have a wrong way of looking at reception of higher vocational education, that is to say, they underestimate the role of vocational education; second, higher vocational education universally lacks an accurately fixed position and distinctive characteristics in the country; third, practicing conditions are poor and there is a shortage of necessary running fund; fourth, there exists a shortage of student sources and students' comprehensive qualities are poor; fifth, it is urgent to strengthen the construction of a contingent of teachers with both theoretical knowledge and practical experience; sixth, graduates acquire rather narrow employment channels. For this reason, the following countermeasures should be adopted to develop higher vocational education: first, make efforts to dispel the prejudice against higher vocational education by doing propaganda and create a good foundation of thought and a good social environment for higher vocational education; second, the position of higher vocational education of agriculture and forestry should be accurately fixed and its characteristics should be attached importance to; third, lay emphasis upon improving practicing conditions and highlight the feature of vocation; fourth, reform the running system, further the combination of production, teaching and researches, and try to improve the running conditions; the enrolment plan should be brought into line with the state plan in order to enhance guide and control, and guarantee student source and quality; fifth, by combining internal factors with external factors, speed up the construction of a contingent of teachers with both theoretical and practical experience.