Students are mainly taught by correspondence, supplemented by face-to-face instruction. Teaching links include self-taught textbooks, face-to-face tutoring, exchange of questions and answers, concentrated experiments, internships, evaluation assignments, stage tests, final exams or exams, graduation design or writing papers. The organizers are correspondence schools, full-time schools or approved institutions, organizations and other institutions.

1980 The Opinions of the Ministry of Education on Vigorously Developing Correspondence Education and Night University in Colleges and Universities approved by the State Council stipulates that students who have completed the prescribed courses and passed the examination will be awarded a diploma by the host school, and their academic qualifications will be recognized by the state; After completing all subjects and passing the exam, a certificate of academic achievement will be issued.

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Correspondence education in People's Republic of China (PRC) began in secondary normal schools. 195 1 northeast experimental school established correspondence department, and Beijing established correspondence normal school. Correspondence education in colleges and universities was compiled from Renmin University of China (the second half of 1952) and? Northeast Normal University (65438+May 0953). Later, it gradually expanded to science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, literature, finance and economics, politics and law, teachers' colleges, sports and other colleges, among which correspondence education in teachers' colleges is the largest and fastest.

By 1965, correspondence education had been held in 123 colleges and universities across the country, with 138 majors and189,000 correspondence students, equivalent to 28% of the students in ordinary colleges and universities that year. Colleges and universities that hold correspondence education generally have correspondence departments or departments, a certain number of cadres and a team of full-time and part-time teachers.

A leading cadre in the school is in charge of this work. During the "Cultural Revolution", correspondence education was forced to stop, and it was gradually restored after 1976, when Jiang Qing's counter-revolutionary group was crushed.