高等职业教育是培养应用型高技能人才的新型教育模式,受到国家高度重视并得到大力发展。据教育部2006年公布的数据显示,我国现有高职(专科)院校1105所,占全国高等院校总数的60%以上,是我国高等教育的半壁河山。高等职业教育的迅速发展,既缓解了各地经济建设高技能人才短缺的矛盾,又促进了我国高等教育大众化,彰显了其积极意义;但同时也暴露出一些与社会需求不相适应的问题:一方面,大中型企业迫切需要的大量智能型高级实用技术人才得不到满足,另一方面高职院校培养的人才却又得不到社会的普遍认同。高职院校应如何适应经济发展形势,提高人才培养质量,保持可持续性的健康发展,是我们必须面对的严峻问题。我国高职院校的发展实践与改革创新表明:必须坚持和落实科学发展观,以科学发展观推动高职院校的可持续发展。 Higher vocational education is a new type of education model for cultivating applied and highly skilled personnel, which is highly valued by the state and has been greatly developed. According to the data released by the Ministry of Education in 2006, there are 1105 tertiary institutions (colleges) in our country, accounting for more than 60% of the total number of higher institutions of higher learning in China. It is a half of China’s higher education. The rapid development of higher vocational education has not only alleviated the contradiction between the shortage of highly-skilled personnel in various economic construction areas, but also promoted the popularization of higher education in our country and demonstrated its positive significance. However, it also revealed some problems that are incompatible with social needs: As for large and medium-sized enterprises, a large number of intelligent advanced practical technical personnel who are urgently needed can not be met. On the other hand, the personnel trained by higher vocational colleges are not universally accepted by the society. How Higher Vocational Colleges Should Adapt to the Economic Development, Raise the Quality of Talents Training and Maintaining a Sustainable and Healthy Development Are the Serious Problems That We Must Face. The practice, reform and innovation of our higher vocational colleges show that we must persist in implementing the scientific concept of development and promote the sustainable development of higher vocational colleges with the scientific concept of development.