Technical and Vocational Education in China

Dr. Xueping Wu is a professor at the College of Education at Zhejiang University, China. From 1990 to 1991, she worked at Sussex University, UK as a visiting scholar. She hosts or attends international conferences on education on a regular basis and maintains close ties (through academic exchanges and collaborations) with scholars from the UK, USA, Italy, Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, etc. From 2014 to 2015, she was a visiting scholar at the Department of Education, Valparaiso University, where she conducted research on community colleges in the USA.Yiqun Ye is an Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, China. Her academic research covers such fields as students' work-study programs and financial-aid programs at American higher education institutions. She is the co-author of the work Technical and Vocational Education in China, published in 2009 (in English), and the essay Vocational Education in China in 2013. From 2014-2015, she was a visiting scholar in the United States, where she conducted research on professional development of faculty at American community colleges.