RESEARCH ON CHINESE AND GLOBAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

The work presents the results of a review of the core literature published in China and other countries of the world over the past 11 years on the public administration in vocational education. The purpose of the publication is to identify the differences between the approaches of China and other countries in matters of public administration of vocational education and to understand the general trend of conducting advanced research and making it public. This work contributes to the deepening of scientific research on the development of public administration in the field of vocational education in China. Methodology. Methods of analysis and synthesis, graphic, statistical analysis and modeling were applied; the main search was carried out on the core literature published from 2013 to 2023 using the Web of Science database and the China National Knowledge Infrastructure database. Scientific novelty. The author figured out, that vocational education governance has been a hot topic in global governance research. The developed countries of Western vocational education have formed mature governance models, and the following are typical: Germany's «Dual System», Switzerland's «Triple System», Australia's TAFE colleges, France's Apprenticeship Training Center model, the United States of America's Cooperative Education, the United Kingdom's «Sandwich» model, Singapore's «Teaching Factory», and the Japan's Industry-Education-Research Cooperation model, and so on. Conclusions. It was cleared out that the Western literature focuses on governance practices, where scholars have studied the diversity of policies and cooperation, such as the complex interactions between government and business around economic and social goals, the impact of policy relocation on the formation of collective skills systems in the region etc. Chinese scholars' research on public administration based on the discourse system with Chinese characteristics has become a research hotspot in China during recent years, and the research results are mainly focused on three areas, such as vocational education governance model, university governance and developing governance theory.