With the support of Li Ka-shing Foundation, the school actively expanded academic exchanges and cooperation. At present, it has established close academic exchanges and cooperation with nearly 20 universities in the United States, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, Australia, Germany and other countries, and formulated and implemented undergraduate and graduate exchange plans.
Focusing on the educational goal of "being ambitious, knowledgeable, persistent and promising", the school adheres to the student-oriented principle, carries out the reform of university management system and the innovation of personnel training mode, and plans to open the most forward-looking life science and technology teaching course in the world in the newly-built medical college. Since 200 1, Shantou University, with the support of Li Ka-shing Foundation, has launched an internationalization-oriented reform project, and carried out an all-round educational reform with exemplary significance in curriculum, teaching, resource management and personnel system. Many reform experiences have been affirmed, supported and popularized by the state, and they are committed to building a high-quality management system and excellent education with modern universities, and building a domestic advanced and internationally renowned high-level university.
Shantou University began to recruit adult higher education students from 1983, set up an adult education college from 1993, and set up an open college and a self-taught examination office from 1999, which are subordinate to the adult education college. 20 10 was renamed as College of Continuing Education. College is the executive director of Guangdong Adult Education Association and Adult Higher Education Research Association of provincial universities.
Relying on Shantou University's strong faculty and advantages in running schools, the College of Continuing Education adapts to the needs of economic and social development and runs schools in multiple channels, levels and forms. In the course of running a school, the college adheres to the concepts of pioneering, scientific management, paying attention to quality, caring for students and serving the society, aiming at cultivating practical talents with good professional quality, optimizing the educational environment, standardizing teaching management and innovating teaching mode and talent training mode. Over the years, it has made positive contributions to Guangdong's economic and social development.