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What is continuing education?
What is continuing education?

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 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 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. At present, the main forms of continuing education are: adult college entrance examination, distance network education and open university. People who have entered the society or are working can continue to be taught and studied in these four ways.

How to register for continuing education?

In order to improve the national education level in China, adults can improve their academic and cultural level through continuing education and obtain a formal diploma recognized by the state, which can be found in Xuexin.com. 68 colleges and universities were approved to carry out modern distance education pilot projects. For the online education students trained by these 68 colleges and universities who meet the requirements of undergraduate and junior college graduation, the school will issue higher education diplomas in accordance with relevant state regulations, which will be recognized by the state after electronic registration.

At present, the distance education schools that can apply for continuing education are: Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing Normal University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, beijing language and culture university, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Dalian University of Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Northeastern University, Northeast Agricultural University, Northeast Normal University, university of international business and economics, Fujian Normal University, Jilin University, Jiangnan University, Lanzhou University, Sichuan University, Sichuan Agricultural University, Tianjin University, Xi Jiaotong University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Southwest University, China Communication University, China Geo University (Beijing), China Youshi University (Beijing), China Youshi University (East China), China Medical University and other 985/2 1 1 key universities.