1, Amateur: Amateur education refers to the use of spare time to educate and train on-the-job personnel in various forms and contents. For example, evening classes, winter classes, clubs and literacy classes are held, and adult schools of all levels and types provide cultural, political, technical and military education to workers and peasants in their spare time.

2. Correspondence: mainly according to the teaching plans of various majors, teachers are sent to correspondence stations around the country to organize face-to-face lectures and examinations during winter and summer vacations or national legal holidays.

3. Night University: Night University is a term used in the early days of reform and opening up, which mainly refers to attending classes at night or on weekends. It is a form of adult education and a way of amateur education.

Second, the characteristics are different.

1, amateur: teaching forms include face-to-face, correspondence, radio, television, self-study exams, etc. Generally, students are enrolled in the college, and classes are arranged at night or on weekends, which is suitable for on-the-job candidates to apply.

2. Correspondence: it is a teaching method, and there are only two kinds of education, namely, correspondence college education and undergraduate education.

3. Night University: There is little difference between the examination form and the unified enrollment. The teaching form is evening or weekend, and diplomas are awarded by universities.

Extended data:

You can take the adult college entrance examination through amateur, correspondence and night university, and the registration conditions are as follows:

1. Support the leadership of the * * * production party in China, and be willing to serve the socialist modernization, with good moral character and law-abiding.

2. On-the-job, employees and other social personnel other than students from various high and secondary schools with academic qualifications recognized by the state.

3. Candidates who enter the starting point of high school to study undergraduate or junior college should have a high school diploma. Candidates who take the college entrance examination must have obtained the diploma issued by the national series of higher education institutions and higher education self-study examination institutions recognized by the Ministry of Education.

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