The related introduction of communication is as follows:
Correspondence education originated from the promotion movement of British universities in 1960s (65438-2009), and correspondence schools were established in capitalist countries after 1980s. In China, the Commercial Press established a correspondence agency at 19 14. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), correspondence education has made great progress.
Correspondence education in People's Republic of China (PRC) began in secondary normal schools. 195 1 northeast experimental school established correspondence department, and Beijing established correspondence normal school. Correspondence education in colleges and universities was compiled from Renmin University of China (the second half of 1952) and? Northeast Normal University (65438+May 0953).
Later, it gradually expanded to science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, literature, finance and economics, politics and law, teachers' colleges, sports and other colleges, among which correspondence education in teachers' colleges is the largest and fastest.
By 1965, correspondence education had been held in 123 colleges and universities across the country, with 138 majors and189,000 correspondence students, equivalent to 28% of the students in ordinary colleges and universities that year. Colleges and universities that hold correspondence education generally have correspondence departments or departments, a certain number of cadres and a team of full-time and part-time teachers.
A leading cadre in the school is in charge of this work. During the "Cultural Revolution", correspondence education was forced to stop, and it was gradually restored after 1976, when Jiang Qing's counter-revolutionary group was crushed.