Continuing education refers to all kinds of education received by people who leave formal education, take part in work and have adult responsibilities.
Continuing education is an important part of lifelong learning system, and it is an advanced supplementary education for professional and technical personnel to update, supplement, expand and improve their own abilities. Its educational forms include adult college entrance examination, distance network education and so on. And it has the advantages of low tuition and national recognition of academic qualifications.
Historical origin:
Continuing education is a new educational project developed in the United States in 1930s, which is called CEE (Continuing Education Project).
The purpose is to train some engineers and technicians, adapt to the rapidly developing production needs faster and better, and complete the tasks stipulated by new technologies and industries that are becoming more and more difficult to master. At that time, many universities in the United States set up special lectures and training courses on engineering and technological revolution.
After the Second World War, especially after the 1960s, with the in-depth development of the new technological revolution and the wide spread of the idea of lifelong learning education, people generally realized the importance of the continuing education project, and even some countries began to use government administrative means to vigorously promote this project.
The British government has repeatedly proposed to reconsider the role of education and training. Germany has stipulated the scope, objects, requirements and methods of continuing education projects in the form of laws.
The Japanese government also pointed out that enterprises should pay attention to the knowledge updating of scientific and technological personnel, and the talent strategy needs to get out of a misunderstanding: the aging of talents, the outdated knowledge of talents, the insufficient development of talents' professional fields, the stagnation of talent training bases, and the blind ineffectiveness of talent continuing education projects.
From 65438 to 0962, UNESCO specially invited experts from various countries to set up an "international expert working group on continuing education projects" to investigate, analyze, discuss and demonstrate the continuing education projects in various countries and introduce and popularize advanced experience. Since then, continuing education projects in various countries have been in full swing, and continuing education organizations and institutions have mushroomed.