Preparatory education for ethnic minorities is a special level of higher education for ethnic minorities in China. Its purpose is to help minority students with weak basic knowledge make up for their own shortcomings, broaden their horizons and lay a solid foundation for becoming qualified college students as soon as possible, so as to better serve the society and promote education and economic development in minority areas in the future. Minority preparatory education is an important part of minority higher education. "Doing well the preparatory education for ethnic minorities in colleges and universities" is the earnest hope and clear requirement of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and it is also one of the main features of ethnic colleges and universities.
With the approval of the Ministry of Education, Hubei University for Nationalities began to recruit preparatory classes for ethnic minorities from 199 1. Up to now, nearly 1 1000 college students have been trained for more than 30 ethnic minorities such as Tujia, Miao, Dong, Mongolian, Zhuang, Tibetan, Uygur and Kazak, and they have become the backbone and reserve force of local modernization.
The College of Preparatory Education of Hubei University for Nationalities has always adhered to the school-running philosophy of "preaching and teaching to solve doubts, laying a solid foundation, improving quality and cultivating qualified preparatory college students"; At the same time, focusing on the construction of teachers' morality and style, focusing on the construction of study style, insisting on the organic combination of classroom teaching and extracurricular activities, taking the all-round development of students as the working idea, and attaching great importance to the preparatory education of ethnic minorities. At first, the preparatory course was directly managed by the academic affairs office of the school, and later it was managed by the basic department, the preparatory department, the social science and preparatory department. In 2002, the disciplines in the school were integrated and an independent preparatory department was established, which was built and managed as a school-running entity like a secondary college in the school. On July 20 10, it was renamed as College of Preparatory Education. 2065438+01March was rated as the advanced basic unit of ideological and political education for college students in Hubei Province. After more than 20 years of construction and development, the ethnic preparatory education in our college has reached a certain scale and good conditions for running a school. There are more than ten full-time teachers, including six teachers with deputy senior titles, and teachers with master's degree or above 12.
The College of Preparatory Education always adheres to the principle of "making up" and combining "making up" with "making students adults", strengthens the education of students' political quality and moral quality, strengthens the training of basic cultural knowledge and basic skills, cultivates students' ability to adapt to university study and life, develops healthy psychological characteristics and behavior patterns, and makes them qualified students in various subjects. According to the spirit of document Jiao Min [20 10] 1 issued by the Ministry of Education, the College of Preparatory Education of Hubei University for Nationalities offers courses such as physical education, Chinese, mathematics, English, ideological and political education, ethnic theory and policy, reading and writing, physics and chemistry, and actively promotes quality education.