“形成全民学习、终身学习的学习型社会,促进人的全面发展”,是全面建设小康社会的奋斗目标之一。据专家分析,信息社会和知识经济时代,由于知识爆炸和急剧更新,人的一生无法区分为“教育阶段”和“工作阶段”,有限的学校教育已经无法适应社会对劳动者知识更新的需求。“我们要逐步建立和完善有利于终身学习的教育制度。学校要进一步向社会开放,发挥学历教育、非学历教育、继续教育、职业技术培训教育等多种功能。普通教育、职业教育、成人教育和高等教育要加强相互的衔接与沟通,为学习者提供多种多次受教育的机会,要以远程教育网络为依托,形成覆盖全国城乡的开放教育系统,为各类社会成员提供多层次、多样化的教育服务。”(江泽民在第三次全国教育工作会议上讲话)这就要求我们要积极构建终身教育体系。而作为终身教育体系重要组成部分的职业教育和培训,与其他教育相比,是最为薄弱的环节。(表现为经费投入少、师资队伍相对不足、教育质量和效益不高等)因此,以“终身教育”的理念谋求职业教育的大力发展,消除国民教育体系的结构性缺陷,任务极为迫切和艰巨。本期“职教三人行”围绕这一话题特邀请南京师范大学教授博士生导师杨启亮、劳动和社会保障部谢瑗、湖北省武汉市成人教育学会常务副会长欧阳云和天津? “Forming a learning society full of learning and lifelong learning and promoting the all-round development of the people” is one of the goals of the struggle to build an overall well-to-do society. According to expert analysis, in the era of information society and knowledge-based economy, due to the explosion of knowledge and rapid updating, people’s life can not be differentiated into “education stage” and “work stage”. Limited school education can no longer meet the needs of the society for the knowledge renewal of laborers. “We should gradually establish and perfect an education system conducive to lifelong learning. Schools should further open their doors to the community and give play to academic, non-academic, continuing education and vocational and technical training education.” General Education, Vocational Education, and Adult Education And higher education should strengthen the connection and communication with each other and provide learners with multiple opportunities for education. Based on the distance education network, an open education system covering all urban and rural areas should be formed to provide various social members with multi-level, Diversified educational services. “(Jiang Zemin at the Third National Education Conference) This requires us to actively build a lifelong education system. Vocational education and training as an important part of the lifelong education system are the weakest link compared with other education. Therefore, it is extremely urgent and arduous to seek the vigorous development of vocational education with the concept of ”lifelong education“ and eliminate the structural defects of the national education system. This is due to the small investment, the shortage of teaching staff and the poor quality and efficiency of education. This issue of ”vocational education threesome" specially invited Professor Nanjing Normal University doctoral tutor Yang Qiliang around this topic, Ministry of Labor and Social Security Xie Xun, Wuhan City, Hubei Province Adult Education Society executive vice president Ouyang Yun and Tianjin?