Chinanews.com, Nanjing, December 2 (Xu Shanshan) The Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education recently released the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting Comprehensive Reform of Higher Continuing Education in the New Era" (hereinafter referred to as "Implementation Opinions").
According to the "Implementation Opinions", colleges and universities in Jiangsu will create a number of first-class majors and first-class courses for continuing education at the provincial level, and build about 50 "university silver-age learning centers" to further improve Jiangsu's higher continuing education system.
According to Yang Shubing, deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, there are currently 129 colleges and universities in Jiangsu offering continuing education, including 118 colleges and universities offering continuing education with academic degrees, with 1.28 million registered students; the annual scale of non-degree education in colleges and universities is 4 million.
For a long time, higher continuing education in Jiangsu has provided flexible and diverse learning opportunities for on-the-job learners, and has played an important role in realizing the popularization of higher education and building an education system that serves lifelong learning for all.
The "Implementation Opinions" require that Jiangsu colleges and universities will dynamically adjust the regional professional layout and college professional settings, and create a number of first-class provincial-level continuing education majors with exemplary and leading roles; in order to improve the professional theory, technical skills, job adaptability and Aiming at transforming ability, cultural literacy and satisfying personal interests, promote the reform of the education model of integration of production and education, and work-study integration; create a number of high-level, innovative and challenging provincial-level continuing education first-class courses for higher education, and form a comprehensive A curriculum system with general knowledge and professionalism, emphasizing application and practicality.
"Continuing education lecturers will all be full-time teachers or part-time teachers officially hired by colleges and universities, and tutors will be selected or identified by colleges and universities. At the same time, teacher training, teaching open classes, teaching competitions, etc. will be carried out in layers and categories to promote teachers' teaching concepts and Skills are continuously updated, and colleges and universities are encouraged to build a teacher-student learning community centered on on-the-job learners." Yang Shubing said that around the overall goal of promoting rural industries, talents, culture, ecology and organizational revitalization, and targeting farmers and rural workers, Jiangsu will also Recommend thousands of "Provincial University Online Open Courses" to be open to the public free of charge.
In terms of serving the elderly education, the "Implementation Opinions" proposes to vigorously implement the multiplication action plan for serving the elderly education in Jiangsu colleges and universities.
Jiangsu will build about 50 "University Silver Age Learning Centers", explore ways to provide a variety of suitable learning methods for 60-year-old and above or retired people, choose more than 70 non-academic education special projects suitable for elderly learning, and formulate "Jiangsu University Service "Guidelines for Non-academic Education Projects of the Multiplication Action Plan for Elderly Education", the obtained "Realistic Learning Certificate" can be directly deposited into the "Jiangsu Province Lifelong Education Credit Bank", to maximize the realization of "healthy aging" and "active aging" in Jiangsu University service positions.
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