Human Capital, Training Pathways and Educational and Professional Guidance in China

Abstract

One of the Government's priorities is to swap from an industrial economy and low salaries to one of Services and high salaries. For this, the government needs to increase the quality of Human Capital, understood as the increase in the average educational level of the population. An educational measure to achieve this goal is to enhance educational and vocational guidance. Orientation is conceived as a measure designed to optimize the adjustment between the education system and labor market. Although it is a measure present in the Chinese educational system before, it is not until 2012, when the government is committed to a model of Educational and<br />Professional Guidance focused on the development<br />of the individual's career. The objective of this<br />paper is to analyze how educational transitions<br />are from one educational stage to another, and<br />from one educational level to another, to know<br />the problems and factors associated with dropped<br />from school. Once detected the different types<br />of transition in the Chinese education system.<br />We contrast it with the theoretical model of<br />educational and professional guidance focused<br />on the development of the individual's vocational<br />career. At the methodological level, a review of<br />the research and of the databases to be used<br />is carried out. Finally, the results show how<br />different itinerary models that Chinese students<br />take according to their socio-educational profile<br />do not fit with the theoretical model of Career<br />Education.