The School of Continuing Education of South China Normal University runs schools through adult higher education, open colleges, self-study exams and non-academic training. After a long period of development, it has formed a school-running system with various forms, training levels, professional settings and training objects, and formed a school-running pattern that is coordinated with the development of general higher education in our school. At present, there are 30 correspondence undergraduate majors, 15 specialist majors, 34 amateur undergraduate majors and 32 specialist majors in adult education. 20 1 1 September, adult education enrollment 17973 people. There are 54 examiners in the higher education self-study exam, including 27 undergraduates and 27 specialists. Every year, more than 1 1000 students sign up for various forms of self-study exam remedial classes. There are 33 open college enrollment majors approved by the Provincial Self-taught Examination Committee, including undergraduate majors 12, specialist majors 2 1, and registered students 1084. Exchange between open university and higher vocational education. It has cooperated with 5 1 higher vocational colleges, with more than 1.3 million students. All kinds of on-the-job training and non-academic education training courses are held, and majors such as interior design, print advertising design, web design, animation design and landscape design are offered all the year round, and the enrollment scale has increased steadily year by year.

Up to July of 20 1 1, a total of 85,358 undergraduate and junior college graduates have been trained, including 40,538 undergraduate and 44,820 junior college graduates. 6752 graduates of university professional certificate education; The higher education self-study exam has trained a total of undergraduate and junior college graduates 156637, including 65438 undergraduate graduates +0 14602 and 42035 junior college graduates. Since 1988, 13682 adult education graduates (including self-taught graduates) have obtained bachelor's degrees. Most graduates have become the backbone of all fronts, some have been commended by provinces, cities and counties, and some have held leadership positions in provinces and cities.

The school has held adult education in Macao for 26 years. Nearly 70% of primary and secondary school and kindergarten teachers with professional qualifications in Macao are trained by our school, which has a wide influence in Macao's cultural and educational circles and has made important contributions to the training of educational personnel and social and cultural development in Macao.

In 2003, the College of Continuing Education and the College of Educational Sciences jointly declared and obtained the right to award the master's degree in adult education. Since 2004, 50 full-time adult education graduates have been recruited nationwide, 32 of whom have successfully graduated and obtained master's degrees, and some of them have become the backbone of the adult education front in Guangdong Province.