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10 September 2026

Research on the Current Situation and Influencing Factors of Industry-Education Integration in Higher Vocational Education

Lingbo Zhou1 Shujun Wu1 Shasha Liu1 Wei Deng1
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1 Loudi Vocational and Technical College, Loudi 417000, Hunan, China
erd 2026 , 8(8), 83–88; https://doi.org/10.26689/erd.v8i8.15289
© 2026 by the Author(s). Licensee: Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

Industry-education integration can boost the high-quality development of higher vocational education. Driven and supported by relevant policies, industry-education integration has achieved remarkable results with continuously expanded scale and scope of school-enterprise cooperation. Nevertheless, dilemmas including insufficient integration depth and mismatches between talent training and corporate demands persist. From three dimensions of institutional supply, school-enterprise relations and college governance, this paper systematically analyzes the key factors affecting the quality of industry-education integration, so as to provide useful references for the transformation of industry-education integration.

Keywords
Higher vocational education
Industry-education integration
School-enterprise cooperation
Talent training quality
Influencing factors
Funding
Excellent Youth Scientific Research Project of Hunan Provincial Department of Education (2023), “Research and Practice on Cultivating Rural Revitalization Talents Through Industry-Education Integration in Higher Vocational Colleges” (Project No.: 23B1076)
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Conflict of interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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