Continuing education is an educational activity for all members of society, especially adults, after school education, and it is an important part of lifelong learning system.
Continuing education refers to all kinds of education received by people who leave formal education, take part in work and have adult responsibilities. It is an advanced supplementary education for professional and technical personnel to update, supplement, expand and improve their abilities.
Continuing education is a form of education that appears at a certain historical stage when human society develops, and it is an important part of educational modernization. It plays a more and more important role in the process of social development, especially in the formation of a learning society with all-people learning and lifelong learning.
Continuing education is a special form of education, mainly to update, supplement, expand and improve the knowledge and skills of professional and technical personnel, further improve the knowledge structure, and improve creativity and professional and technical level.
Continuing education is an educational activity for all members of society, especially adults, after school education, and it is an important part of lifelong learning system. With the world economy and society putting forward higher requirements for continuing education, the practice field of continuing education has been developing and the research scope has been expanding and deepening.
In particular, the idea of lifelong education has been accepted by more and more people, and the position, function and methods of continuing education in the economy and society have been preliminarily understood and practiced, and the scientific research of continuing education has also made great progress.
Continuing education is a new educational project developed in the United States in 1930s, which is called CEE. 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 continuing education project.
Even some countries began to use the government's 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 proposed:
Enterprises should pay attention to the knowledge updating of scientific and technological personnel, and the talent strategy needs to go out of a misunderstanding: the aging of talents, the outdated knowledge of talents, the lack of development in the professional field of talents, the stagnation of talent training bases, and the blind and ineffective continuing education projects for talents.