The difference between continuing education and adult education;

1. Continuing education is an educational activity for all members of society, especially adults, after school education, and it is an important part of the lifelong learning system. The essential characteristics of adult education are determined by the object of education-adults. Adult education can be understood as the process of guiding education in an adult way. Adults are mature people and experienced people. Adult means maturity and experience.

2. The study time of adult college entrance examination varies with enrollment level, major and learning style, ranging from 2 years to 5 years. Six years. Continuing education is a way for self-taught students to take sub-courses, accumulate credits and finally get a diploma, which is not limited by the semester and academic year system.

3. Continuing education refers to all kinds of education received by people who leave formal education and 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.

Adult college entrance examination is a series of national education and included in the national enrollment plan. The state recognizes academic qualifications, participates in the national unified entrance examination, and all provinces and regions organize admission in a unified manner.

Adult college entrance examination mainly recruits local registered students, and foreign students can also study by correspondence. Because of the advantages of their own teaching methods, online universities and TV universities have no geographical restrictions on the scope of enrollment. Candidates who take part in continuing education are not limited by gender, age, nationality, race and education level, and belong to completely open education. Even if you only have a junior high school diploma, you can sign up for the self-study exam.

Extended data

Adult education refers to a form of education different from ordinary full-time teaching. Adult education is not limited by age and sex. Through this educational process, people who are regarded as adults in society can increase their abilities, enrich their knowledge, improve their technical and professional qualifications, or turn them to a new direction, thus changing their attitudes and behaviors in two aspects: their all-round development and their participation in the balanced and independent development of social economy and culture.

There are four main forms of adult continuing education qualifications, namely, higher education self-study examination (self-taught examination), online education (distance education), adult college entrance examination (full-time, amateur, correspondence) and open university (former modern distance open education of Radio and TV University).

References:

The Ministry of Education issued the Measures for the Administration of Specialty Setting of Continuing Education in Higher Education.