COUPLING-COORDINATION AND DYNAMIC INTERACTION BETWEEN HIGHER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION QUALITY AND NEW-QUALITY PRODUCTIVITY
Keywords:
Higher vocational education quality, New-quality productivity, Coupling-coordination, PVAR modelAbstract
The new round of scientific and technological revolution has promoted the accelerated development of new quality productivity. As the core carrier of the supply of technical and skilled talents, higher vocational education has an internal relationship of mutual influence and dynamic evolution with new-quality productivity. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2018 to 2023, this study develops a comprehensive indicator system that covers both higher vocational education quality and new‑quality productivity. Multiple empirical approaches, including the entropy weight method, coupling coordination model, and panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model, are utilized to examine the synergistic development, dynamic interactive relationship, and spatial correlation characteristics of the two systems. The empirical findings show that there is a positive correlation between the quality of higher vocational education and the new-quality productivity in China 's provinces, but the regional development differentiation is obvious, and the coordination level of the two systems in the eastern region is significantly better than that in the central and western regions. The two-way interaction of the two systems presents asymmetric characteristics. The new-quality productivity can effectively promote the quality improvement of higher vocational education, but there are still blocking points in the transformation and release of the quality of higher vocational education to the new quality productivity. This study enriches the empirical evidence of higher vocational education serving the new-quality productivity, and provides a practical reference for promoting the reform of higher vocational education according to local conditions and promoting the synergy of the two systems in the region.
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