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Missions

The school upholds the missions of “basing on and facing Province” and “serving the needs of basic education and teacher’s education”. It provides adult degree education, training on self-study examination of higher education and training for cadres and teachers working in education management from primary and middle schools to include secondary vocational education and special education. Entrusted by the Party and government organs, it also trains managers, and cadres, enterprises and institutions, which constitute a teaching pattern of continuing education featuring with wide channels, moderate scale, diverse forms, rich levels and uniqueness.

General Information

The School of Teacher Training (School of Continuing Education), located at Guihuagang Campus of Guangzhou University, is specialized in adult higher education， training for principals and teachers from primary and middle schools and secondary vocational schools. Guangzhou University has set up adult higher education programs since 1978 and established the Continuing Education School in September 2001. The school of Teacher Training was established in 2011 and it merged with Guangzhou Primary and Middle School Principle Training Center, Guangzhou Primary and Middle School Teacher Training Center and Guangzhou Primary and Middle School Teacher Development Center. In April 2017, the Continuing Education School merged with the School of Teacher Training. The school currently has a faculty team of 47 members to include 28 administrative staff and 19 full-time teachers, among whom 12 members are senior professors, 1 post-doctor, 3 doctors and 20 postgraduates. To meet the need of teaching and training, the school employs over 500 part-time staff from different schools and other well-known universities and recruits more than 30 administrative staff. The School is comprised of one teaching department, four training departments and three administrative offices. At present, the School offers 43 undergraduate courses of ten disciplines: philosophy, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, economics, management and art. It has 23 recorded off-campus teaching sites in Guangzhou, , and Dongguan, with 255,779 students on campus and it has trained thousands of students every year. In recent years, the school actively promotes teaching reform and innovations, greatly improves teaching and learning conducts, makes outstanding achievements, and it is rated as the excellence school in adult higher education. The school has received the title “Advanced Unit of Guangdong Province Adult Education” for several times. In 2012, it was awarded the qualification of model centralized training programs in National Training Plan. In 2013, its estate management major passed the authentication of British Chartered Institute of Housing and received qualification. In 2014, it was honored the “Advanced Unit of Continuing Education Training for the First-class Registered Constructor of National Construction Engineering Major”. In 2014 and 2015, it ranked the first place consecutively in the Comprehensive Evaluation of National Training Plan organized by the Education Department. In 2019, the School was selected as the Director Unit of Adult Education Research Association of Guangdong Colleges and Universities. The school attaches great importance to cooperation with well-known native and international universities and educational institutions. It currently has established long-term cooperation with many famous universities in , the BELA Education Group, Tampere University of Applied Sciences in Finland and Linköping University in . In the new era, the school will fully implement the high-level university building plan, deepen the supply-side structure reform of continuing education, be active in transformation and upgrading, increase its teaching performance and achievements, and make more contribution in building a high-level university which matches Guangzhou’s status as a key city.

Honors and Medals

Medals

Advanced Unit of Continuing Education Training for the First-class Registered Constructor of National Construction Engineering Major by CCIA in December, 2014

Member of MOOC China Union in September, 2015

Excellent Party Organ of Guangzhou Education Bureau System in June, 2016

First Managing Director of Guangdong Continuing Education Association in December, 2018

Advanced Group of Guangdong Adult Education by Guangdong Adult Education Association in June, 2014

Advanced Unit of Continuing Education Training for the First-class Registered Constructor of National Construction Engineering Major by CCIA in December, 2014

Advanced Group of Guangdong Adult Education by Guangdong Adult Education Association in October, 2016