Journal: Journal of Higher Education Research DOI: 10.32629/jher.v7i5.5608
Abstract
Chinese higher vocational education has steadily expanded its Sino-foreign cooperative programmes with Central and Eastern European countries, driven by the Belt and Road Initiative and by deepening educational cooperation between China and the region. This paper reports a case study of the Sino-Hungarian joint programme, jointly established by Shandong Vocational College of Information Technology and the University of Miskolc in Hungary. Drawing on theories of intercultural adaptation, it examines the difficulties that engineering students encounter when they move from a three-year vocational diploma into bachelor-level study in Hungary, and describes a five-component instructional system — objectives, content, faculty, pedagogy, and assessment with quality assurance — built to address them. Implementation results are reported, and the model is offered as a practical reference for intercultural education in comparable vocational cooperative programmes aimed at Central and Eastern Europe.
Keywords
higher vocational education; Chinese-foreign cooperative education; cross-cultural adaptation; University of Miskolc; Sino-Hungarian joint programme
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