留级制度,指的是学生学年成绩不合升级标准,留在原年级重新学习的这一制度。这是自中国现代教育体制逐步形成以来,自民国时期就产生的,为了保证毕业生的学习质量达标以及督促学生自我严格要求,形成的一种略显残酷却能保证学生质量的学籍制度。本文针对高职院校留级生现状及成因等问题展开几点论述。 Retention system, refers to the student academic performance does not meet the criteria for upgrading, to stay in the original grade relearning the system. This is a form of student registration system that has been produced since the rise of the Republic of China and has achieved a certain brutalty while guaranteeing students ’quality of study as well as supervising students’ self-discipline since the gradual formation of modern Chinese education system. This article aims at the status quo and cause of secondary school students in higher vocational colleges and so on.