Ministry of Education: From the fall of 2025, the names of "correspondence" and "amateur" will no longer be used in continuing education with higher education

　　China News Service, August 17th. According to the website of the Ministry of Education, recently, the Ministry of Education issued the "Implementation Opinions of the Ministry of Education on Promoting the Reform of Continuing Education of Ordinary Colleges and Universities in the New Era" (hereinafter referred to as "Implementation Opinions").

The "Implementation Opinions" makes it clear that from the fall of 2025, continuing education with higher education will no longer use the names of "correspondence" and "amateur", and will be unified as "non-full-time". The host colleges and universities can flexibly adopt online online courses according to professional characteristics and student needs. The following combined form of teaching.

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　　The "Implementation Opinions" require that the orientation of running a school be clearly defined.

Ordinary colleges and universities that hold continuing education for academic qualifications (hereinafter referred to as the host colleges and universities) shall, according to social needs and their own school-running positioning and conditions, follow the principles of focusing on characteristics, controlling scale, and ensuring quality, and holding corresponding continuing education for academic qualifications.

Hosting colleges and universities should implement the fundamental task of building morality and cultivating people, and take continuing education of academic qualifications as an important aspect of implementing personnel training and social service functions, and incorporate it into the school's development plan.

It is necessary to strengthen the public welfare nature of continuing education for academic qualifications, not for profit, not to issue economic assessment indicators, and to ensure that the quality of running schools is consistent with the school's brand reputation.

　　Optimize the form of running schools.

From the fall of 2025, continuing education with higher degrees will no longer use the names of "correspondence" and "amateur", and will be unified as "non-full-time". The host colleges and universities can flexibly adopt a combination of online and offline teaching according to professional characteristics and student needs.

The continuing education for academic qualifications held by ordinary institutions of higher learning is unified through the adult college entrance examination for admission, the basic requirements for professional teaching, the minimum number of years of study, and the unified graduation certificate.

Correspondence, part-time, and online education students who have registered for enrollment shall follow the original policy.

　　Promote classification development.

The host colleges and universities should scientifically establish the personnel training objectives and specifications of continuing education for academic qualifications, and vigorously cultivate innovative, applied and technical talents according to their own school-running positioning, characteristics and advantages.

Support colleges and universities affiliated to the central ministries and commissions to organize "less but excellent, small but refined" continuing education for academic qualifications in combination with high-level disciplines, to set demonstrations and lead development.

Support local colleges and universities to focus on continuing education for academic qualifications that "serves the locality, runs schools in a standardized way, has an appropriate scale, and has distinct characteristics".

Support higher vocational schools to focus on the key fields of manufacturing, modern service industry and rural revitalization needs, focusing on front-line practitioners, and organize continuing education of academic qualifications to serve "knowledge update and technology improvement".

——Completely implement the requirements of education and teaching

　　The "Implementation Opinions" proposed to strengthen ideological and political education.

The host colleges and universities should adhere to the guidance of Marxism in all aspects of continuing education and teaching, fully implement Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics into teaching materials, into the classroom, into the minds of teachers and students, and strengthen patriotism, collectivism, and socialist education. ; It is necessary to open ideological and political theory courses, comprehensively promote the ideological and political construction of courses that reflect the characteristics of continuing education, explore a new model of ideological and political education that combines online and offline, and establish and improve the system and mechanism for full, full, and all-round education. .

　　Standardize teaching organization and implementation.

Hosting colleges and universities should attach importance to the construction of continuing education and teaching management systems, strengthen the whole-process management of online teaching and offline teaching, and ensure strict implementation of course teaching, experimental training, attendance, homework, assessment, graduation thesis (design), and graduation defense. and auditing requirements.

Explore the scientific evaluation of students' ability levels through practical assignments, situational tests, and skill certification.

It is necessary to strengthen student management and services, and create conditions to increase the time and frequency of students' study and activities.

In principle, important events such as opening ceremonies and graduation ceremonies should be concentrated.

　　Innovative education and teaching mode.

Hosting colleges and universities should innovate education and teaching models in accordance with the laws of adult cognition, professional development needs, and the characteristics of disciplines and majors, give full play to the advantages of information technology, and carry out blended teaching that combines online teaching with face-to-face teaching, autonomous learning and collaborative learning, etc.; According to the requirements of different majors and the characteristics of students, the proportion of online and offline school hours should be reasonably determined. In principle, offline teaching (including practical teaching) should not be less than 20% of the total school hours stipulated in the talent training plan.

Encourage students to improve their enthusiasm and participation in learning through participatory, discussion, case, and project-based teaching, and focus on learning experience.

　　Strengthen the construction of teaching staff.

The host colleges and universities should strengthen the construction of continuing education teachers who combine full-time and part-time degrees, and fully match the number of lecturers, tutors and management personnel. The ratio should not be less than 1:100, and the ratio of the number of management personnel to the number of registered students should not be less than 1:200; the hired part-time teachers and tutors should be integrated into the school's teaching staff development planning and management, and the construction of teachers' morality and style should be strengthened.

Encourage the sponsoring colleges and universities to re-employ outstanding retired teachers of their own schools to participate in continuing education and teaching.

The host colleges and universities should incorporate the continuing education work undertaken by the in-service teachers into the teaching workload calculation and teachers' teaching performance evaluation system.

- Standardize and strengthen school management

　　The "Implementation Opinions" proposed that the basic requirements for running schools should be strictly enforced.

Education administrative departments at all levels should strictly implement the basic conditions for running schools of ordinary institutions of higher learning and the basic requirements for continuing education in ordinary institutions of higher education, and regard them as the qualifications for running schools of continuing education with degrees, determine the upper limit of enrollment plans, monitor the quality of running schools, and evaluate the level of running schools. important basis.

The indicators in the basic requirements for running schools will be gradually incorporated into education statistics.

The Ministry of Education will formulate the basic requirements for the professional teaching of continuing education with higher academic qualifications by professional category.

All localities and host universities shall, in accordance with the "Guidelines for the Compilation of Personnel Training Programs for Continuing Education of Higher Education Institutions", further clarify the target specifications, and standardize the curriculum setting and teaching organization and implementation.

　　Strengthen the construction and management of teaching materials.

All localities and host universities shall, in accordance with the relevant requirements for the construction and management of higher education continuing education textbooks, consolidate management responsibilities, improve the management system of higher education continuing education textbooks, strengthen textbook planning, improve the quality of compilation, strictly review and control, standardize the selection of textbooks, and strengthen Teaching material education function.

The party committee of the host university is generally responsible for the work of the school's continuing education teaching materials, and the school teaching material selection committee is specifically responsible for the selection of the continuing education teaching materials.

Encourage relevant units to develop high-quality teaching materials that meet the needs of learners on-the-job learning, match the depth and breadth with talent training goals, and meet the requirements of interactive learning.

It is necessary to strengthen support and guarantee, and increase support for continuing education materials with excellent academic qualifications.

　　Standardize the management of off-campus teaching sites.

All localities and host universities should conscientiously implement the requirements of the "Notice on Strictly Regulating the Setting and Management of Off-campus Teaching Sites", strictly regulate the conditions and procedures for setting up off-campus teaching sites, control the number and scope of placement, and strengthen school-running supervision and quality monitoring.

All localities can encourage qualified host universities to hold non-full-time academic continuing education through a combination of centralized face-to-face teaching and online teaching through policy guidance and projects.

　　Improve the monitoring and evaluation mechanism.

Host colleges and universities should improve the internal quality assurance system of continuing education for academic qualifications, strengthen system construction, conduct self-assessment and summary of education quality every year, publish education quality reports, and accept social supervision.

Provincial education administrative departments comprehensively take random inspections, quality monitoring, field research and other methods to conduct normal supervision of continuing education with higher education in the region, and timely identify and correct problems.

The Ministry of Education has included the continuing education of undergraduate education into the evaluation of undergraduate education and teaching, the evaluation of the ability of higher vocational colleges to adapt to social needs, and the diagnosis and improvement of vocational education and teaching work, and carried out special evaluation and supervision as appropriate.

Education administrative departments should explore the establishment of a credit management scoring and punishment mechanism for higher education continuing education schools, and open channels for handling reports of violations of school running.

——Promote the development of digital transformation

　　The "Implementation Opinions" pointed out that the level of digital public services should be improved.

Deeply implement the national education digitization strategy action, improve the national unified, graded use, open and shared higher continuing education information management system, and serve education administrative departments, educational institutions, students and the general public.

The education administrative department should strengthen data linkage, and proactively disclose to the public information on the main body of continuing education for higher education, professional settings, off-campus teaching sites, enrollment scope, registration channels, tuition standards, etc. Open online.

　　Promote the co-construction and sharing of high-quality digital resources.

The Ministry of Education will extensively gather high-quality digital education resources, promote the open sharing of online courses and resources, and establish a continuing education "course supermarket" and a 24-hour "online school".

Encourage schools to develop high-quality online courses independently or jointly with relevant institutions.

Support the exploration of sustainable development mechanisms for resource construction and use, and support resource copyright owners to independently price and trade through market-based methods.

Encourage the exploration of models and ways to carry out continuing education for academic qualifications online, improve the international level of continuing education for higher academic qualifications, and promote the openness and sharing of high-quality resources.

　　Promote the wisdom of school management.

Host universities should make full use of big data, artificial intelligence and other technical means, innovate the management methods of continuing education for higher education, strengthen the whole process management of enrollment, teaching, examination, student status, certificates, fees and other links, and improve the digital and intelligent management of running schools. level, eliminate human intervention, and ensure standardized procedures and effective supervision.

Promote the intelligent supervision of education administrative departments, realize systematic, real-time, closed-loop monitoring and early warning, and digital, systematic, and automated quality evaluation.

　　Strengthen online normal monitoring of education and teaching.

Host universities should comprehensively strengthen the daily monitoring of online teaching of continuing education teachers and students’ online learning, include teaching effects and learning status in teacher assessments and student evaluations, accurately judge students’ learning status and teaching quality, and achieve personalized diagnosis and real-time intervention.

The Ministry of Education will promote the connection between the teaching management systems of the host universities in various places and the national higher education information management system, and monitor the teaching situation of higher education continuing education on a regular basis.

——Strengthen organization and implementation

　　The "Implementation Opinions" pointed out that the Party's leadership should be strengthened.

All localities and host universities should strengthen the Party's overall leadership over the continuing education of higher education, and run through the entire process of running a school with the correct political direction and work orientation, so as to provide strong political and organizational guarantees for the reform and development of continuing education for higher education.

It is necessary to give full play to the leading role of the school party committee, and establish a leadership system in which the main leaders of the party and government in colleges and universities are the first responsible person for continuing education, and the leader in charge of the school is the main responsible person.

Major decisions on continuing education for academic qualifications must be collectively discussed and decided by the school party committee or the party committee standing committee.

The school discipline inspection commission should strengthen the supervision of the whole process of continuing education of academic qualifications.

　　Consolidate the responsibilities of all parties.

The Ministry of Education strengthens the overall management of continuing education for higher education, continuously improves the policy system and management mechanism, establishes an expert committee for higher continuing education, and strengthens research, guidance and decision-making consultation.

Education administrative departments at all levels should effectively implement the guidance and supervision responsibilities of continuing education for higher education in their regions, incorporate continuing education for academic qualifications into the work evaluation system of the leadership team of host universities, and promptly investigate and deal with violations of school-running behavior.

The host colleges and universities should strictly implement the main responsibility of running a school, adhere to the separation of management and management, clarify the centralized management department of continuing education, improve the procedures and requirements for enrollment promotion, tuition collection, off-campus cooperation, financial management, certificate issuance, etc., and improve the school running process. Integrity risk prevention and control mechanism.

　　Strengthen financial security.

All localities and host universities should establish a dynamic adjustment mechanism for higher education continuing education tuition fees, explore a credit-based charging management model, and promote a sound mechanism for raising funds for higher education continuing education that combines the input of sponsors and the reasonable sharing of training costs by learners.

The host colleges and universities should guarantee the funds for continuing education, establish and improve the financial management system, standardize the use and management of tuition income, and the tuition income should be directly turned over to the school's financial account.

　　Create a good environment.

All localities should increase the publicity of the reform achievements, development achievements and advanced models of higher education continuing education, and give full play to the demonstration, driving, leading and radiating role of advanced models.

Strengthen the construction of continuing education-related disciplines and majors, and encourage relevant colleges and universities to actively carry out theoretical research and leading practice around the hotspots and difficulties of continuing education.

All localities should continue to improve the working mechanism for the collaborative governance of advertising departments in violation of laws and regulations in their regions, and create a clear environment for the reform and development of continuing education for higher education.