Vocational higher education development
Submission deadline: 2025-06-30
Special Issue Editors
Ziao Hu
Central South University
Interests:Educational psychology、 Different types of education difference comparison
Longfei Zhao
Guizhou Medical University
Interests:Educational psychology、 Different types of education difference comparison
Xiaoxian Wang
Guangxi Vocational University of Agriculture
Interests:Transnational cooperation in vocational education
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A large number of scholars in the field of education have focused on higher education and made outstanding contributions to its development. With the growth of The Times and the needs of society, vocational higher education has become the key part of contemporary higher education, but there is not much related research focusing on contemporary vocational higher education. In light of this, we propose that most education researchers focus on higher vocational education and jointly promote its development.
We welcome a diversity of articles, such as conceptual and empirical articles, reviews, critical comments, and meta-analyses, for submission to this Special Issue. We will accept manuscripts on topics related to various aspects of higher vocational education.
Keywords
Vocational higher education; development; Course design; Vocational college student; Vocational college staff
Published Paper
Cheng Huang;Yuan-Cheng Bin Chang;
Competition in higher education is essentially a competition for talent, particularly manifested in the competition among high-level university teachers. Therefore, enhancing teachers' loyalty to their profession and universities, controlling talent turnover, and establishing a responsible and well-structured teaching staff are fundamental to the sustainable development of universities. This study, based on the motivation-hygiene theory, utilized convenience sampling to conduct a questionnaire survey on internationally studying teachers from 21 universities in Hainan Province, China. A total of 667 valid questionnaires were collected, and a structural equation model was employed to investigate the influence of organizational incentives in Hainan's universities on the loyalty of international teaching staff; as well as the mediating effect of organizational commitment of international teachers between organizational incentives and loyalty. The research results show that both organizational incentives and organizational commitment can positively predict teachers' loyalty, and organizational incentives can positively predict organizational commitment. Organizational commitment plays a partial mediating role between organizational incentives and teachers' loyalty. Based on this, this study suggests that university administrators should establish a reasonable incentive mechanism and cultivate the organizational commitment of overseas-study teachers, in order to comprehensively enhance the loyalty of overseas-study teachers and ensure the stability of the teaching staff.
Yuan Gao;Kuan-Chun Bin TSAI;
The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of entrepreneurial leadership perceived by college students in Northwest China on their creativity, focusing on the mediating role of intrinsic motivation and emotional intelligence in this relationship. Through the questionnaire survey and structural equation model analysis of 484 college students, the results show that entrepreneurial leadership significantly promotes the creativity of college students, and intrinsic motivation and emotional intelligence play a part in the mediation of this process. In addition, factors such as positive personality and gender have a moderating effect on the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and creativity. This study provides a new theoretical perspective for the relationship between leadership and creativity in entrepreneurship education, and provides empirical support for universities to formulate more effective entrepreneurship education strategies.
Yanheng Zhu;Kuan-Chun Tsai;
Lifeng Jiang;Meirong Lin;Wenjun He;Kewei Zhang;Yiqun Ma;Jiaxing Li;